Bitquery

Bitquery is a blockchain data company that indexes more than 40 networks, Solana among them, and sells access to the decoded results through APIs and real-time streams, so developers, trading firms and compliance teams can query trades, transfers and balances without running their own nodes.

What Bitquery does

Raw blockchain data is hard to use directly. Transactions arrive as program instructions and account changes, and every chain encodes them differently. Bitquery runs the indexing layer: it parses blocks, decodes protocol activity such as DEX swaps and token transfers, and normalizes it into a unified GraphQL schema that looks broadly similar across chains. According to its website, the platform covers more than 300 DEXs and over 10 million tokens, holds more than a petabyte of indexed data, and handles over 10 billion API calls a month. Those figures are Bitquery's own and have not been independently audited.

The company sells to developers building trading tools, wallets and dashboards, and to analytics and compliance businesses. Its site names Nansen, Chainalysis, Binance, CoinMarketCap, Bybit, Nexo and TRM Labs among users, and its about page adds Kraken, Tether, Lukka, Merkle Science and Pump.fun.

Products

Bitquery groups its offering into several data products and delivery methods:

• DEX and trading APIs covering real-time and historical trades, OHLCV candles and liquidity.
• Token and holder APIs for holder distributions, transfers and supply.
• Balance and wallet APIs for portfolio and custody tracking.
• A crypto price API providing USD pricing across supported chains.
• Coinpath, a trademarked money-flow tracing product that follows funds wallet to wallet, including across chains, for forensics and compliance work.
• Cloud datashares that export Parquet data to S3, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and Azure.
• An MCP server that exposes Bitquery data to AI agents and LLM tools.

Data can be pulled on demand through GraphQL, pushed through WebSocket subscriptions (which Bitquery describes as roughly one-second latency), consumed as managed Kafka topics carrying Protocol Buffers messages for enterprise pipelines, or streamed over gRPC.

Solana coverage

Solana is one of Bitquery's most developed chains. Its Solana documentation covers DEX trades, SPL and NFT transfers, balance updates and holder data, transactions and instructions, fees, staking rewards and NFT metadata. Queries can target a combined dataset, a real-time dataset, or an archive; a curated trading dataset covering roughly the last 30 days attaches USD price, market cap and supply to each row, while older history is served from chain-level APIs.

The docs list more than 30 decoded Solana protocols, including [[PROJECT:224]], [[PROJECT:287]], Orca, [[PROJECT:219]], Meteora, Phoenix, OpenBook, Jito, Lifinity and Zeta Markets. Pump.fun and its PumpSwap AMM have dedicated API products covering new token launches, bonding-curve trades, pools and OHLCV data, a reflection of how much Solana memecoin trading runs through that venue.

The lowest-latency Solana product is CoreCast, a gRPC stream that delivers decoded, filtered activity as binary Protobuf. The CoreCast documentation lists six topics: finalized transactions with instructions and logs, token transfers, DEX trades, DEX order updates, DEX pool creation and liquidity changes, and balance updates. Filters are mandatory and applied server-side, by address, program ID, token mint, value threshold or market, so subscribers receive only the slice they need. Bitquery positions CoreCast for trading terminals, MEV searchers and high-frequency strategies that want parsed events without operating a validator. The Protobuf schemas are published as bitquery-corecast-proto on npm and PyPI, and CoreCast has since been extended to EVM chains.

Pricing and access

Bitquery uses a points-based model. A free developer key is available, and paid plans start at $49 per month according to the company, with higher tiers adding request-rate allowances, concurrent streams and a commercial licence. Enterprise contracts add full multi-chain history, unlimited streaming, fixed-cost Kafka, SLAs and SSO. CoreCast access depends on plan entitlements and is not part of the free tier.

Coinpath and on-chain research

Beyond raw data, Bitquery publishes investigations built on its own tooling. Coinpath has been used to trace stolen and scammed funds; Coinpedia reported on a case in which Bitquery traced 180,000 USDT and produced a report identifying exchange accounts for law enforcement. The company says its money-flow work has been cited by The Washington Post, CoinDesk, The Block, Decrypt and Cointelegraph.

Its X account posts a steady stream of on-chain analyses across chains, such as wash-trading patterns on new memecoin venues, concentration of DEX volume in single wallets, prediction-market trading around political events, and reward-wallet activity on Solana launchpads.

Team and history

Bitquery started in 2017 as Bloxy.info, an Ethereum analytics explorer, and its X display name still carries the Bloxy label. According to its about page, it became a multi-chain data infrastructure provider in 2018, launched its GraphQL APIs in 2019 and was processing 100 million API calls a month by 2020. Aleksey Studnev, a co-founder who previously held CTO roles at Izetex and Wondersoft, is listed as CEO. Earlier company profiles on CypherHunter and elsewhere also name Dean Karakitsos as a co-founder. The company's registered address is in Dover, Delaware. Bitquery was among the winners of the 2019 Binance SAFU hackathon and has received a Polygon ecosystem grant.

Fit in the Solana ecosystem

Bitquery sits in Solana's data-infrastructure layer alongside RPC providers and indexers. Its distinguishing angle is decoded, cross-chain data: a team can use the same schema for Solana DEX trades and EVM swaps, and choose between historical GraphQL queries and low-latency streams for the same underlying events. For Solana-specific builders, the depth of launchpad and DEX decoding, especially around Pump.fun, is the main draw.