Monthly Recap: July

While your average European co-worker is putting in their OOO notifications, the SQD team was busy working on the tech and spreading the word on building the future of onchain data access. If you were offline this month for a well-earned vacation, or just want an overview of what we

SQD in the Ethereum ecosystem

Ethereum is turning ten years old, marking a decade of smart contracts and programmable money. It gave us lots of nice things, such as ICOs (making a comeback), DeFi primitives, and cypherpunk values (also making a comeback).  Throughout its history, it continued adding blocks without fail, throughout downturns and hard

SQD Node Operator Spotlight ft Erick from Nodies

As of today, over 2,800 worker nodes are contributing to our data lake, storing more than 2.4 petabytes of onchain data. But you might wonder: who is behind these nodes? In this new series, we'll be spotlighting the people who are a big reason SQD continues

The story of SQD

A holistic story of SQD “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” - Soren Kierkegaard In hindsight, it appears obvious that SQD was going to make it to the 5-year mark that spells the death of the average startup. Yet while in the midst of

What happened at SQD in June?

June at SQD While many Europeans are living the high life, trading in their desks for sangrias on the street, the SQD team has been shipping this past month. pic.twitter.com/K0f9unfLdO — Lord of Leisure (@lavitalenta) June 30, 2025 We went from being just another altcoin with a grand

SQD in Numbers

SQD in Numbers What do crypto people love more than words and the Roman Empire? Exactly Numbers. So, whether you’re new to SQD or have followed for a while, here’s a breakdown of SQD in numbers. 4 That’s the number of years SQD has existed and persisted

Unlock Uniswap V4 Data in Minutes with SQD SDK

TL;DR: Uniswap V4 introduces previously unthinkable levels of customization for devs building DeFi. Yet, this creates difficulties in accessing data, except when using SQD to do it. Learn how to build your first Uniswap V4 multichain indexer with just a few lines of code. Uniswap V4 is currently revolutionizing

SQD Data Talk: Insights on Building an RPC Proxy

Earlier in May, we went live for the first episode of our new series: SQD Data Talks. We’ve been data nerds ever since our founders came across the problem of accessing blockchain data, but realized we don’t talk about it enough. That’s why we decided to open

SQD is entering Rollout phase

TL;DR: SQD is evolving, phasing out training wheels and onboarding consumers directly from the cloud to the decentralized network. Tokenomics 2.0 will align token and network adoption, reducing SQD issuance while increasing demand. SQD holders can earn stable rewards by lending their tokens to data consumers. SQD’s

The SQD Token Expands to Base

TL;DR: Starting today SQD’s native token SQD is trading on Base/ Aerodrome, further expanding its access and increasing liquidity. This is part of the Surge program, which establishes SQD as the database network for the agentic economy. Shortly, the launch of Tokenomics 2.0 will further expand the

Fuel Your Eliza AI Agent with SQD

Introducing SQD's Newest Tool Agents. At SQD, we believe they will shape the next era of blockchain innovation. If you pause for a moment to imagine the role these autonomous, AI-driven systems will play in the crypto economy over the coming decades, it’s not hard to see

Deepseek, Open AI, and SQD

When DeepSeek released their open-source model, they didn’t just freak out all the US-based big tech companies and tank NVIDIA stocks, much to the dismay of your favorite tech stonk influencer. They also probably created the conditions for a pivot away from spending millions on training custom models to

Introducing the SQD Surge Program

With our recent announcement, we reaffirmed our vision for SQD.ai – the first Emergent Database Network for the AI Agent Economy. We are now taking the next step, building on our multi-year mission to provide a scalable, permissionless, and cost-efficient solution for accessing and utilizing blockchain data at scale: Introducing

The emergent database network to serve the AI agent economy

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” - Bill Gates.  AI usage is accelerating, and crypto isn’t an exception, with builders deploying agents onchain daily.  While frameworks like Eliza and protocols like

2024 in retrospect

“A good beginning makes a good end.” - Louis L’amour In that spirit, the end of 2024 is also the beginning of a new phase for SQD, one of increased decentralization - as we prepare for a full launch of the SQD Portal.  With this release, SQD is slowly

SQD Network: Six Months In: Big Plans, Bold Moves, and the Road Ahead

Things are starting to heat up. Exactly six months ago, we launched SQD Network to mainnet. Following a massively successful testnet and token launch on CoinList (their fastest sale ever!), SQD’s mainnet launch was the first major step towards the network’s decentralization. → Don’t know what SQD network

Monthly Recap: November

GM fellow Data Ocean Navigators, In November, crypto seems to have defeated crab season and entered the high tides of the bull market. While Bitcoin marked a new All-Time-High, and Ether gave up its stablecoin existence, our engineers worked hard to prepare our upcoming release of Portal. In the meantime,

Portals AMA - All you need to know

On November 14th, SQD CEO Dmitry went live on X to answer questions from the community and talk a little more in-depth about the release of Portals, our next big roadmap item.  Unfortunately, we had some audio issues in the process. Fortunately, our intern took notes, which enabled us to

The road ahead for Ethereum

During Devcon, naturally, devs talked a lot about the future of Ethereum, and how they saw the roadmap. If you’ve never seen the Ethereum roadmap, you can find it here.  All larger phases are grouped under names like The Merge, The Purge, The Splurge.. Until they run out of

Exploring the Superchain

Want to build an L2 or launch a niche protocol these days? There’s one L2 ecosystem you can’t ignore…  Yes,’ it’s the Superchain. With the recent announcement that Kraken is building its L2 using the Optimism Stack and Uniswap is launching its chain in the same ecosystem,

It’s time to say Goodbye to Discord

We're moving the SQD community to telegram  TL;DR: The SQD community is moving to Telegram. In one week, the Discord server will become read-only. Join us on Telegram to chat away,  GM Data Ocean Navigators,  As you have noticed, Discord is falling out of favor with Web3

October at SQD: A glimpse into the Future

GM fellow Data Ocean Navigator. October might have provided a glimpse into the future, with AI agents’ portfolio’s outperforming those of their fellow humans in the trenches.  Sure, the agents might not be autonomous, nor have good taste - but the same can be said of the archetypal tech

Cloud Deployments 2.0

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”  - Khalil Gibran At SQD, we’re focused on providing permissionless access to onchain data at a petabyte scale. Part of that mission involves making it as easy as possible for projects to get started. For

Exploring Crypto Gaming

Many years have passed since Vitalik Buterin started Ethereum after crying himself to sleep over lost items in World of Warcraft. What started as an attempt to create an ecosystem where centralized games wouldn’t have such powers has turned into a vibrant ecosystem of all sorts of applications.  What

Bitcoin L2s: Hot or not?

Peer-to-Peer Cash, an alternative to the existing traditional financial system that so badly failed us in 2008, was the promise of Bitcoin.  For many years, the innovation continued, but the more interesting dApps found a home on smart contract chains, something that Bitcoin, designed for simplicity and payments, couldn’t