Archive Node
Infrastructure · Deep
A Solana node that retains the complete historical ledger from genesis, including all transaction data and historical account states, rather than pruning old data after a retention window. Standard RPC nodes typically store only 2-3 days of transaction history and the current account state snapshot. Archive nodes served by providers like Triton, Helius, and Google BigQuery enable historical queries such as getTransaction for months-old signatures and full getBlock retrieval for past epochs. Running an archive node requires multi-terabyte storage (50+ TB and growing) due to Solana's high throughput.