The BlockDB Blog

Data insights, engineering deep-dives, and product updates for quant funds and AI teams.

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Everything we publish, organized by type.

Product Updates

New datasets, chains, delivery methods, and schema releases.

Use Cases

How quant funds, Web3 developers, and DeFi analysts put BlockDB to work.

Guides

Step-by-step tutorials with working code for common DeFi data workflows.

Release Notes

Dataset additions, schema changes, and delivery infrastructure updates.

Key Topics

Recurring themes across posts — jump straight to what matters to you.

Row-Level Lineage

How _tracing_id ties every record back to its source transaction.

Build vs. Buy

The real cost of running your own DeFi data pipeline versus subscribing.

Streaming at <140 ms

WSS delivery patterns and reorg-aware stream handling in production.

Schema Stability

Why breaking changes ship as new table versions, never silent mutations.

Quant Workflows

Backtesting, signal research, and execution analytics on tick-level DeFi data.

Multi-Chain Coverage

ETH, BSC, Base, Arbitrum, Unichain, Avalanche, Polygon — one unified schema.