data economy

A few words on the Web3 data landscape

Blockchain technology made the data, which had already been increasing at a staggering rate, more abundant. Add to this many kinds of data, such as - historical price data on CEXs and DEXs, - trading data (data on futures, and perpetual futures volume and volatility among others), - importing off-chain data onto the chain, - data on blocks produced by blockchain. Only Ethereum, the largest blockchain network, has produced more than 18 million blocks from its beginning until the time of this writing , and a humongous amount of data in Web3. In this article I’ll try to explain what different categories of players do in Web3 data landscape.