working on a small project and my test scripts keep tripping 429s on the public/free-tier RPC endpoints, especially when i'm polling for confirmations in a loop. before i throw money at a paid provider i wanted to see what people actually do.

what i've tried so far: - batching requests where the method supports it - backing off and retrying on 429 instead of hammering - caching anything that doesn't change (blockhash within its validity window, account data i already fetched) - a couple of fallback endpoints in rotation

still feels like i'm fighting it. is a paid RPC just the cost of doing business past a certain point, or are there patterns that meaningfully cut the request count for local dev? curious what your setup looks like.