Primary features
The Subsquid platform is a peer-to-peer distributed data infrastructure that ingests, compresses, and serves historical and real-time on-chain data from 200+ EVM, Substrate, Solana, and Starknet networks — enabling developers to build custom indexers, analytics pipelines, and AI-ready data feeds without relying on centralized RPC providers like Alchemy or Infura. Through its modular architecture and flagship SQD Portal, the Subsquid platform merges finalized historical block data with real-time "Hotblocks" streaming — delivering a unified past-to-present data feed in a single request.
- Decentralized Data Lake — Blockchain data distributed across worker nodes with redundant, high-availability storage.
- SQD Portal — Unified data gateway merging historical archive data with real-time Hotblocks streaming.
- Squid SDK — Developer toolkit for building custom indexers that extract, transform, load, and query on-chain data.
- OceanStream — Institution-grade real-time data lakehouse streaming 200+ chains with sub-second latency and 3PB+ of history.
In short, the Subsquid platform replaces expensive, centralized blockchain data infrastructure with a decentralized, developer-flexible, and dramatically lower-cost alternative purpose-built for multi-chain Web3 applications.
Distributed Worker Nodes
Data chunked, compressed, and stored across peer-to-peer nodes
Hotblocks Streaming
Real-time unconfirmed block data merged with finalized archive history
Modular Pipeline
Extraction and processing fully separated for flexible configuration
ZK-Secured Access
Zero-knowledge proofs verify data integrity across the network
Rust Query Engine
Refactored Rust-based engine delivers parallel processing at high speed
Light Squid
Direct-to-user local data delivery without developer-run server infrastructure
User benefits
The Subsquid platform allows Web3 developers, data analysts, and institutions to access comprehensive, customizable blockchain data at a fraction of the cost and latency of centralized alternatives — without vendor lock-in, node maintenance overhead, or single points of failure. The Subsquid security features apply zero-knowledge proof verification to all data served from worker nodes, ensuring cryptographic integrity of every query response.
- Data extraction costs up to 90% lower than centralized RPC providers translate directly into reduced infrastructure spend for builders at any scale.
- Hotblocks real-time streaming eliminates the need for a separate RPC connection alongside historical archive access, simplifying developer infrastructure.
- Output flexibility — PostgreSQL, GraphQL, CSV, Parquet, BigQuery, and Kafka — means Subsquid fits into any existing data stack without re-engineering.
- Light Squid's direct-to-client delivery model removes the server maintenance burden entirely, allowing analysts to query locally even offline.
- OceanStream gives financial institutions a single regulated-grade environment for cross-chain backtesting, market surveillance, and regulatory reporting across 200+ networks simultaneously.
Overall, the Subsquid platform exists to become the foundational data layer of Web3 by making blockchain data as accessible, affordable, and composable as any modern cloud data service.
