Bitquery

Bitquery is a blockchain data infrastructure platform that indexes 40-plus chains through a unified GraphQL schema, enabling developers to query real-time and historical on-chain data without running their own nodes — with Solana as its highest-throughput network by volume.

Background

Founded in 2019 and originally operating under the Bloxy brand, Bitquery has grown into an enterprise data vendor serving more than 40,000 developers. The company's infrastructure has indexed more than one petabyte of blockchain data and handles over 10 billion API calls per month. Customers include Nansen, Chainalysis, Binance, 0x Protocol, and Coin Metrics, spanning use cases from trading terminals and compliance platforms to tax software and on-chain forensics.

Core Architecture: One Schema Across 40+ Chains

Bitquery's central design principle is a unified schema: developers write a query once and can redeploy it across different blockchains or delivery mechanisms without restructuring their data models. The V2 API covers 40-plus networks including Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Tron, Bitcoin, and Robinhood Chain.

Queryable datasets span token prices and OHLCV candles, DEX trades across 300-plus decentralized exchanges, wallet transfers, smart contract calls and events, NFT metadata, holder balances, mempool activity, and Coinpath® money-flow tracing for forensics and compliance work.

Delivery Interfaces

The platform exposes six primary access methods that share the same underlying schema:

• GraphQL (HTTP): Ad-hoc queries and historical retrieval through the streaming.bitquery.io endpoint and GraphQL IDE.
• WebSocket subscriptions: Real-time data push with approximately one-second latency for browser and server-side applications.
• Kafka streams: Protobuf-encoded binary delivery with under 300ms latency and replay capability for high-volume data pipelines.
• Solana gRPC (CoreCast): Ultra-low-latency binary streaming targeting sub-50ms delivery, designed for MEV bots and high-frequency trading applications.
• MCP Server: Natural-language API access for AI agents, backed by ClickHouse, enabling LLM-based workflows to query on-chain data without direct API integration.
• Cloud/S3: Parquet exports for direct ingestion into data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery.

Enterprise customers receive fixed-cost Kafka delivery and dedicated capacity; self-service tiers use a credit-based consumption model with 7-day free trials and no credit card required.

Solana: The Platform's Highest-Volume Chain

Solana is Bitquery's largest chain by data throughput — approximately 30 times larger than any other network they serve. The platform processes roughly 157 billion Solana rows per week and reports powering every live price on Nansen's trading platform with sub-second latency.

Solana DEX coverage spans the major liquidity venues: Raydium, Pump.fun, PumpSwap, Jupiter, Orca, Phoenix, Meteora, and Lifinity. A single DEXTrades GraphQL query filters across all venues simultaneously by mint, trading pair, market, wallet, or program ID. Historical Solana data through the V2 endpoint is available from May 2024 onward.

The CoreCast gRPC interface — aimed at MEV researchers and algorithmic traders — targets under 50ms latency in binary Protobuf encoding. Kafka streams deliver decoded Solana events at under 300ms p95. Standard WebSocket subscriptions deliver around one second.

Solana-specific self-service pricing tiers:

• Personal: $39/month (real-time only, no commercial use)
• Pro: $79/month (100,000 stream-minutes)
• Scale: $239/month (2 million stream-minutes, all stream types)
• Enterprise: Custom pricing with unlimited streaming

DEXrabbit: Consumer-Facing DEX Analytics

DEXrabbit (dexrabbit.bitquery.io) is Bitquery's consumer-facing DEX analytics tool. It surfaces live token prices, trading pairs, liquidity pools, and trader activity across Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, and additional networks — a publicly accessible front-end powered by the same API infrastructure sold to enterprise customers.

Developer Tooling

The GraphQL IDE at ide.bitquery.io allows query authoring directly against live data, with pre-built examples for common Solana patterns: tracking Pump.fun token launches, fetching Raydium OHLCV candles, tracing wallet money flows, and detecting wash trading. An SDK directory provides templates for trading bots, dashboards, and compliance applications.

The blog and on-chain investigation reports function as working demonstrations of platform capabilities. Recent examples include a Solana wash-trading analysis, a ColdCard wallet hack trace, and an analysis of a Uniswap launchpad deployment on Robinhood Chain that minted 18,315 tokens in 19 hours at peak velocity.

The MCP server integration positions Bitquery to serve AI-native development workflows — blockchain data accessible through a standard AI agent protocol rather than requiring bespoke API integration code.

Competitive Positioning

Bitquery competes with Dune Analytics, Nansen, The Graph, and specialized node providers. Its primary differentiators are multi-chain reach under a single schema (reducing re-engineering when adding chain support), sub-second streaming latency (versus batch query models), and enterprise delivery options — Kafka and S3 exports — that dashboard-centric analytics platforms do not offer. The platform is API-first and developer-oriented rather than focused on consumer dashboards.