Update Alchemy entry on Indexers page — Stellar Data API is now live#2573
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The entry described Alchemy as "in talks to expand to Stellar, targeted H1 2026." Alchemy's Stellar Data API has launched, so this updates the entry to the actual offering (indexed transfer history, account balances, and NFT holdings across native, Classic, and Soroban assets) with links to Alchemy's Data API overview and JSON-RPC quickstart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates the Indexers overview documentation to reflect that Alchemy’s Stellar Data API is now generally available, replacing the previously speculative “in talks”/future-launch wording.
Changes:
- Updates the Alchemy entry under “Portfolio APIs” to describe the live Stellar Data API capabilities (transfer history, balances, NFT holdings).
- Adds links to Alchemy’s Stellar Data API overview and Stellar JSON-RPC quickstart.
- Cross-links to the existing RPC providers list.
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| In the biz, these are called _Portfolio APIs._ Well-known companies offering them: | ||
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| - [Alchemy]: most popular choice on Ethereum; now in talks to expand their service to Stellar, with a targeted launch in the first half of 2026. | ||
| - [Alchemy]: a widely-used data provider (popular on Ethereum), now live on Stellar. Its [Stellar Data API](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-data-api-overview) serves indexed **transfer history**, **account balances**, and **NFT holdings** across native, Stellar Classic, and Soroban assets — letting you query this data without running your own indexer (JSON request bodies, opaque `pageKey` pagination). Alchemy also provides [Stellar JSON-RPC](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-api-quickstart) and appears in the [RPC providers](../apis/rpc/providers.mdx) list. |
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i think the verbiage we landed on somewhere previously was "stellar assets" and "contract tokens"? (source)
let's use similar wording here maybe?
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looks pretty great! thanks for making this update. couple small nitpicks, though.
| In the biz, these are called _Portfolio APIs._ Well-known companies offering them: | ||
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| - [Alchemy]: most popular choice on Ethereum; now in talks to expand their service to Stellar, with a targeted launch in the first half of 2026. | ||
| - [Alchemy]: a widely-used data provider (popular on Ethereum), now live on Stellar. Its [Stellar Data API](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-data-api-overview) serves indexed **transfer history**, **account balances**, and **NFT holdings** across native, Stellar Classic, and Soroban assets — letting you query this data without running your own indexer (JSON request bodies, opaque `pageKey` pagination). Alchemy also provides [Stellar JSON-RPC](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-api-quickstart) and appears in the [RPC providers](../apis/rpc/providers.mdx) list. |
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i think the verbiage we landed on somewhere previously was "stellar assets" and "contract tokens"? (source)
let's use similar wording here maybe?
| In the biz, these are called _Portfolio APIs._ Well-known companies offering them: | ||
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| - [Alchemy]: most popular choice on Ethereum; now in talks to expand their service to Stellar, with a targeted launch in the first half of 2026. | ||
| - [Alchemy]: a widely-used data provider (popular on Ethereum), now live on Stellar. Its [Stellar Data API](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-data-api-overview) serves indexed **transfer history**, **account balances**, and **NFT holdings** across native, Stellar Classic, and Soroban assets — letting you query this data without running your own indexer (JSON request bodies, opaque `pageKey` pagination). Alchemy also provides [Stellar JSON-RPC](https://www.alchemy.com/docs/reference/stellar-api-quickstart) and appears in the [RPC providers](../apis/rpc/providers.mdx) list. |
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We could probably replace Stellar JSON-RPC with Stellar RPC to be more consistent with the rest of the documentation. i don't think we use the full JSON-RPC anywhere else (maybe except a page where we're saying the rpc service is built around json-rpc?)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fresh 2026-07-14 live page remains stale. The two terminology nits are clear and checks are green; please update to “stellar assets”/“contract tokens” and “Stellar RPC”, then this can merge and be rechecked in the live crawl. |
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Thanks again @mmazco — this is a real improvement over the stale entry. Since it's down to two word swaps ("stellar assets / contract tokens" and "Stellar RPC"), I'm going to apply those directly and merge so the live page stops being out of date. No action needed on your end. 🙏 |
Per review feedback: align with the token terminology at https://developers.stellar.org/docs/tokens and drop "JSON-RPC" for consistency with the rest of the docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Indexers overview listed Alchemy as "most popular choice on Ethereum; now in talks to expand their service to Stellar, with a targeted launch in the first half of 2026." That's out of date — Alchemy's Stellar Data API is live.
This updates the entry to describe the actual offering: indexed transfer history, account balances, and NFT holdings across native, Stellar Classic, and Soroban assets (queryable without running your own indexer), and links Alchemy's Stellar Data API overview. It also cross-links Alchemy's Stellar JSON-RPC and the existing RPC providers entry, since Alchemy offers both the Chain/RPC API and the (indexer-style) Data API.
Sourced from Alchemy's own docs.
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