Covalent provides a decentralized and sharded global database that allows querying of historical blockchain data through a single unified API. It aims to empower blockchain developers by offering the richest and most robust data infrastructure. Covalent extracts data from public blockchains and organizes it in a single tab, allowing for extensive analysis of entire blockchains and specific protocols using a single API call without additional code. The team was formed by experienced data scientists and blockchain engineers passionate about scaling blockchain technologies.

2. about
The architectural vision for Covalent is that of a decentralized and sharded
global database, allowing any kind of granular query into historical
blockchain data. Blockchain data projects, in general, can be considered as
more advanced and generic blockchain explorers, allowing a much wider
selection of data.

4. how does it works
Covalent’s vision is to empower the pioneers of tomorrow by providing
the richest and most robust data infrastructure for the entire blockchain
ecosystem. Covalent does so through a single, unified API.
To paint a picture, imagine two excel sheets. In one, you have data pulled
using GraphQL. It contains a single tab or multiple, each containing data
specific to a protocol such as Uniswap or Aave. You have data specific to
that protocol and that’s it. While this is simple and serves certain business
use cases, it is limiting.

5. Now imagine the second excel sheet, this one containing a single tab with
data pulled using the Covalent API. This sheet contains anything that has
happened on public blockchains and as a result, the data is far more
extensive. This allows the individual to analyze entire blockchains and
specific or multiple protocols using the single tab referenced. The
individual’s imagination only limits the possibilities for analysis.
how does it works

7. Covalent is the simplest solution possible for developers - no extra code
needed, just one API call.
what for

9. Covalent is built by an experienced team of data scientists and blockchain
and database engineers passionate about improving and scaling
blockchain technologies. Ganesh Swami, CEO and Co-founder, is a
physicist by training and started his career designing algorithms for
cancer drugs in the pharmaceutical space. His first company is listed on
the NYSE. Levi Aul, CTO and Co-founder, built one of the first Bitcoin
exchanges in Canada and was part of the team that built CouchDB at IBM.
team

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