IOTA EVM RPC Node
Feeless Transactions

Connect to IOTA EVM, the feeless EVM-compatible layer on IOTA's DAG Tangle. Experience zero transaction costs, IoT optimization, and the future of fee-free smart contracts.

5 M+

Requests per Day

99.9 %

Network Uptime

< 65 ms

Average Response Time

24/7

Technical Support

Specification IOTA EVM Network

Technical characteristics and available endpoints

IOTA EVM

Mainnet & Testnet Support

Chain ID 8822
Protocol HTTPS / WSS
Uptime 99.9%
Transaction Fees $0 (Feeless)
Architecture DAG Tangle + EVM
EVM Compatible Yes

IOTA EVM is an EVM-compatible smart contract layer running on IOTA's feeless DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) Tangle architecture, enabling developers to deploy Solidity contracts without any transaction fees for users. Unlike traditional blockchains where every transaction costs gas, IOTA's unique consensus mechanism and DAG structure eliminate transaction costs entirely while maintaining security and decentralization. This creates unprecedented opportunities for micro-transactions, IoT applications, machine-to-machine payments, and use cases impossible with even minimal fees.

Key capabilities:

  • Zero transaction fees (completely feeless)
  • Full EVM compatibility (Solidity)
  • DAG Tangle architecture (not blockchain)
  • IoT optimized infrastructure
  • Fast transaction finality
  • Energy efficient consensus
  • Machine-to-machine economy
  • Micro-transaction friendly
  • Growing DeFi ecosystem

🔗 RPC Endpoints

HTTPS
https://rpc.crypto-chief.com/iota/{YOUR_API_KEY}
WSS
wss://rpc.crypto-chief.com/iota/ws/{YOUR_API_KEY}

Replace {YOUR_API_KEY} with your actual API key from the dashboard.

What is an IOTA EVM RPC Node?

Access feeless smart contracts

An IOTA EVM RPC node provides applications with access to feeless smart contract execution on IOTA's DAG Tangle — fundamentally different from traditional blockchains. While maintaining full EVM compatibility enabling standard Solidity development, IOTA eliminates transaction fees entirely through its unique consensus mechanism where each transaction validates two previous transactions. This creates zero-cost environment for smart contracts, enabling use cases impossible on fee-based chains: micro-payments, high-frequency IoT interactions, gaming actions, social features, and machine-to-machine economies.

Why feeless changes everything

Even minimal transaction fees create friction preventing countless applications. Micro-payments become uneconomical. IoT devices can't afford frequent blockchain interactions. Gaming actions costing fractions of a cent add up. Social features requiring thousands of transactions become prohibitive. IOTA's feeless architecture eliminates these constraints — users interact with smart contracts without any cost whatsoever, enabling entirely new categories of blockchain applications previously impossible.

IOTA EVM advantages:

  • Zero fees — completely free transactions forever
  • EVM compatible — deploy existing Solidity contracts
  • Micro-transactions — economical for tiniest value transfers
  • IoT native — optimized for device interactions
  • DAG architecture — parallel processing, no blockchain limits
  • Energy efficient — sustainable consensus mechanism

DAG Tangle vs blockchain

IOTA uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) called the Tangle instead of traditional blockchain. Each transaction validates two previous transactions before being added to the Tangle, creating decentralized consensus without miners or validators requiring payment. This fundamentally different architecture enables feeless operation — no miners to pay, no validators requiring incentives. Transactions process in parallel across the DAG rather than sequentially in blocks, enabling scalability impossible in linear blockchain architectures.

How IOTA Tangle works:

  1. User creates transaction on IOTA network
  2. Transaction validates two previous unconfirmed transactions
  3. Validation provides weight confirming previous transactions
  4. No miners or validators require payment for consensus
  5. Transaction added to Tangle DAG in parallel with others
  6. Users transact completely free, zero costs

Unlocking micro-transaction economies

IOTA's feeless nature enables true micro-transaction economies — paying fractions of a cent for content, per-second API access, tiny in-game actions, IoT device services, data marketplace trades. On fee-based blockchains, these applications fail economically when transaction costs exceed value transferred. IOTA eliminates this barrier enabling new business models: pay-per-use services, micro-monetization, granular billing, machine-to-machine payments, and countless innovations previously impossible due to fee friction.

This infrastructure represents a paradigm shift in blockchain economics from fee-based to fee-free interactions.

Technical Documentation

Quick start for developers

Supported RPC Methods

IOTA EVM supports all standard Ethereum JSON-RPC methods:

  • eth_blockNumber — current block number
  • eth_getBalance — IOTA token balance
  • eth_call — execute read-only contract functions
  • eth_sendRawTransaction — broadcast signed transactions (feeless!)
  • eth_getTransactionReceipt — get transaction confirmation
  • eth_getLogs — query event logs
  • eth_gasPrice — returns 0 (feeless network)
  • eth_estimateGas — estimate computational cost (no fee charged)
  • eth_subscribe — WebSocket event subscriptions

Code Examples

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JavaScript (ethers.js) — IOTA Feeless Transactions:

const { ethers } = require('ethers');

const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider('https://rpc.crypto-chief.com/iota/YOUR_API_KEY');

// Verify connection to IOTA EVM
const network = await provider.getNetwork();
console.log('Chain ID:', network.chainId); // 8822
console.log('Network:', network.name); // iota-evm

// Check gas price - should be 0!
const gasPrice = await provider.getFeeData();
console.log('Gas price:', gasPrice.gasPrice.toString()); // 0
console.log('IOTA EVM is completely feeless!');

// Deploy contract with zero fees
const factory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, bytecode, wallet);
const contract = await factory.deploy();
await contract.waitForDeployment();

console.log('Contract deployed with ZERO transaction fees!');
console.log('Address:', await contract.getAddress());

// Interact with smart contract - no fees!
const MICRO_PAYMENT_CONTRACT = '0x...';
const microPaymentABI = [
  'function payForContent(uint256 contentId) external',
  'function payPerSecond(address service) external',
  'function microDonation(address creator, uint256 amount) external'
];

const microPayment = new ethers.Contract(MICRO_PAYMENT_CONTRACT, microPaymentABI, wallet);

// Make micro-payment - economically viable only because feeless
const tx = await microPayment.payForContent(12345);
await tx.wait();

console.log('Micro-payment completed with zero fees!');
console.log('This enables entirely new business models!');
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Python (web3.py) — IOTA Feeless DApp:

from web3 import Web3

w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('https://rpc.crypto-chief.com/iota/YOUR_API_KEY'))

print('Connected to IOTA EVM:', w3.is_connected())
print('Chain ID:', w3.eth.chain_id)  # 8822
print('Latest block:', w3.eth.block_number)

# Verify feeless nature
gas_price = w3.eth.gas_price
print(f'Gas price: {gas_price}')  # Should be 0
print('Zero transaction fees on IOTA!')

# Get IOTA balance
address = '0x...'
balance = w3.eth.get_balance(address)
print(f'IOTA Balance: {w3.from_wei(balance, "ether")} IOTA')

# IoT device micro-transaction (only viable because feeless)
iot_contract_address = '0x...'
iot_contract_abi = [...]

iot_contract = w3.eth.contract(
    address=iot_contract_address,
    abi=iot_contract_abi
)

# Device reports sensor data - no fee burden
tx_hash = iot_contract.functions.reportSensorData(
    device_id=b'sensor-001',
    temperature=2350,  # 23.50°C
    humidity=6520,     # 65.20%
    timestamp=1234567890
).transact({'from': device_address})

receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
print('IoT data submitted with ZERO fees!')
print('Device can afford thousands of daily transactions!')
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WebSocket — Monitor Feeless Activity:

const { ethers } = require('ethers');
const provider = new ethers.WebSocketProvider('wss://rpc.crypto-chief.com/iota/ws/YOUR_API_KEY');

// Monitor blocks on feeless network
provider.on('block', async (blockNumber) => {
  const block = await provider.getBlock(blockNumber);
  console.log(`\n=== IOTA EVM Block ${blockNumber} ===`);
  console.log('Transactions:', block.transactions.length);
  console.log('Total fees paid by users: $0.00 (always)');
});

// Monitor micro-payment events
const MICRO_PAYMENT_PLATFORM = '0x...';
const paymentFilter = {
  address: MICRO_PAYMENT_PLATFORM,
  topics: [ethers.id('MicroPayment(address,address,uint256)')]
};

provider.on(paymentFilter, (log) => {
  const decoded = ethers.AbiCoder.defaultAbiCoder().decode(
    ['address', 'address', 'uint256'],
    log.data
  );
  const amount = ethers.formatEther(decoded[2]);
  console.log('\n=== Micro-Payment Detected ===');
  console.log('From:', decoded[0]);
  console.log('To:', decoded[1]);
  console.log('Amount:', amount, 'IOTA');
  console.log('Transaction fee: $0.00 (feeless!)');
});

console.log('Monitoring IOTA EVM - the feeless smart contract platform...');

IOTA EVM Best Practices

  • Leverage Feeless Nature: Design applications requiring many transactions (impossible elsewhere)
  • Micro-Transactions: Enable pay-per-use, tiny payments, granular billing models
  • IoT Optimization: Build device applications with frequent blockchain interactions
  • User Experience: Remove fee friction from user interfaces entirely
  • Gas Abstraction: Remember gasPrice is 0, but computational limits still exist
  • Economic Models: Rethink business models freed from fee constraints
  • Testing: Thoroughly test on IOTA testnet before mainnet deployment

Why choose us?

Feeless smart contract infrastructure

Zero Transaction Fees

Infrastructure delivering completely feeless smart contract execution with <65ms RPC latency forever.

DAG Security

Production infrastructure with Tangle DAG consensus achieving 99.9% uptime and feeless operation.

Feeless Analytics

Comprehensive monitoring proving zero-fee transactions, DAG activity, IoT interactions, and micro-payments.

Global Infrastructure

Worldwide deployment supporting IOTA's feeless EVM ecosystem and IoT applications.

Unlimited Scaling

Infrastructure designed for massive transaction volumes enabled by feeless economics.

Feeless Experts

24/7 support from engineers specialized in IOTA's Tangle DAG, feeless architecture, and IoT optimization.

Examples of Use

Build without fee friction

IOTA's feeless architecture enables micro-payment applications, IoT platforms, high-frequency interactions, and use cases impossible with even minimal transaction costs.

Micro-Payment Platforms

Build applications with tiny payments for content, services, or data where transaction fees would exceed value transferred.

IoT Device Networks

Create IoT platforms where devices transact frequently on blockchain without fee burden making interactions uneconomical.

Feeless Gaming

Develop games with unlimited on-chain actions, item trades, and player interactions without gas cost friction.

Social Applications

Launch social platforms where every like, comment, post, and interaction happens on-chain feeless.

Data Marketplaces

Build platforms trading tiny data chunks, API calls, or micro-datasets where fees would kill economics.

Pay-Per-Second Services

Create granular billing for streaming, computing, or services charged by the second without fee overhead.

Got questions?
we are here to help

IOTA EVM is an EVM-compatible smart contract layer on IOTA's feeless DAG Tangle, enabling Solidity contracts with zero transaction fees for users.

Yes! IOTA has zero transaction fees forever. No gas costs, no hidden fees, completely feeless interactions with smart contracts.

IOTA's DAG Tangle architecture requires each transaction to validate two previous transactions, creating consensus without miners or validators needing payment.

The Tangle is IOTA's Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture where transactions process in parallel rather than sequentially in blocks.

Yes, IOTA EVM is fully EVM-compatible. Deploy existing Solidity smart contracts using standard Ethereum development tools.

IOTA is the native cryptocurrency used for smart contract interactions, though transactions themselves are feeless.

Yes! IOTA's feeless nature makes it perfect for micro-payments where transaction fees would exceed value transferred elsewhere.

Absolutely! IOTA was designed for IoT with feeless transactions enabling frequent device interactions that would be too expensive elsewhere.

Yes, we provide RPC access to both IOTA EVM mainnet (Chain ID 8822) and testnet for development and testing.

Choose IOTA when transaction fees create friction for your use case — micro-payments, IoT, gaming, social applications requiring unlimited transactions.

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  • 5 reqs/sec RPC
  • 5 reqs/min Unified API
  • Ultimate chains
  • WSS, Statistics
  • Community support

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  • Support portal

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  • Support portal

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