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.

We went from being just another altcoin with a grand mission to being listed on major exchanges and one of the first projects to have its own PCV (public crypto vehicle). But that wasn’t all we accomplished in June, read on for the highlights.

LOL (lots of listings)

The heading says it all. The SQD token has become significantly easier to find on major CEXs with listings on Coinbase, the Crypto.com App, and HTX. Additionally, Binance included SQD as part of their alpha program.

Going beyond spot listings, you can now find SQD perps on ByBit and trade SQD futures on Binance.

CEX isn’t for you? Then June brought more good news with SQD on Base going live with USDC and SQDGN pools on Aerodrome, the leading DEX on Base. And if you are more of a BNB Bae, SQD's also on BNB chain, available on PancakeSwap. 🥞

What about Product, though?

Listings are great to spread awareness and access to the token, but at the end of the day, we’re building products that should serve the market. SQD Network, as the underlying infrastructure, enables a variety of use cases for onchain data, and in June, two products went live that are bringing SQD to new audiences.

Oceanstream Launch

With Oceanstream, we’ve launched a dedicated project to cater to the needs of more traditional financial institutions looking to invest in or trade the crypto markets. Built on top of SQD, Oceanstream utilizes multi-stage processing to transform raw on-chain data into financial insights.

Data streams thus gathered are optimized for training and financial research, relieving institutions of the need to build their own ETL pipelines or index data from scratch.

Why is this big for SQD? Because the traditional financial markets are taking note of crypto. Robinhood building their own L2, and Walmart and Amazon considering stablecoins should give you a hint at how big the need for onchain data from institutions might soon grow.

For a more in-depth look at why this is significant, check out David Atterman’s thread.

Soldexer Launch

At the seemingly opposite end of the spectrum — although with internet capital markets trending on Solana, they might be closer to TradFi than you think — we’ve enabled the launch of the first dedicated Solana data product powered by SQD: Soldexer.

First presented in Berlin during a Demo Day, Soldexer’s mission is simple: to bring a new data standard to Solana, reducing the need for builders to rely on centralized RPC providers to read data and making it easy to access both historic and real-time data.

If you’re building on Solana and need data, we want to hear from you. For more information on Soldexer, also visit the website at soldexer.dev and follow on X for the latest updates.

Uniswap V4 Indexer

With V4 of its protocol, Uniswap introduced exciting customization options, pushing further this idea of DeFi legos, giving devs ways to combine and build different modules. Great news for DeFi users, and devs, yet the one challenge this poses has been consistent data access — especially for those building multichain.

To help builders, our SQD dev community, SQD boost, has coded a Uniswap v4 indexer template that provides a single interface for accessing v4 data across chains. You can find the code and instructions here.

Botanix Labs integration

In furthering the data that’s stored on SQD, our engineers also integrated Botanix Labs’ data. Botanix has built an innovative network that combines Bitcoin security (think all that Hash power) with the EVM.

Community things

Building is fun, but there’s no point if one doesn’t build for people. The best way to stay in touch is to put ourselves out there, attend events, and speak to others.

In June, our team was at the Telekom’s meetup in Berlin and joined the Agents Day in Cannes to discuss the intersection of Agents x Blockchain.

Our CTO was also featured on M31's summer talks show.

One more thing… the PCV

Remember how people started discussing setting up their own versions of MicroStrategy for Solana or Ethereum?

We do have this now, but in a much more participatory mode.

While Michael Saylor confines himself to keeping his BTC in custody and shares questionable laser eye pictures, the public company acquiring SQD is also committed to participating in the ecosystem.

The Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG (soon to be renamed SQD.AI Strategies) is the first crypto treasury company in Germany and will begin actively purchasing, delegating, and contributing to the network shortly.

Another benefit of this setup is that it offers investors a way to gain SQD exposure without needing to interact with crypto. As much as we want everyone to have their own wallets, there’s value in bringing products to people in ways they already trust.

As you see, we’ve been up to a lot last month and we’ve big plans ahead.

If there are any aspects we haven’t covered you’d like to learn more about, let us know.

In the meantime, if you would like to chat about SQD or adjacent themes (such as data and engineering), feel free to drop a message in our Telegram!