MercadoBitcoin vs Solana JSON RPC

Mercado Bitcoin is Brazil's oldest and largest cryptocurrency exchange, operating since 2013 with spot trading across dozens of BRL pairs. Its v4 REST API and companion WebSocket service expose public market data — candles, order books, tickers — without authentication, while trading and account endpoints require an API key created from account settings. The API is free to use for individual developers.

Solana's public JSON-RPC clusters expose the full read/write RPC surface — accounts, transactions, blocks, and WebSocket subscriptions — with no signup or API key required. They're free to call, but Solana's own docs are explicit that the shared public endpoints are rate-limited to roughly 100 requests per 10 seconds per IP and are not intended for production traffic, pointing serious usage toward a dedicated third-party RPC provider instead.