Unleashing the Power of Real-time Crypto Data for Developers
Public Key
The Challenges of Scaling Data Ingestion Services
Alex Vatanka: I'm really curious about some of the big technical challenges that you encountered as you were building the product. Like, where were the big speed bumps along the way? So we saw the vision now executing on it. What made this hard to do? Why were you all one of the first to really go and tackle this? Harry Sutter: There are probably thousands of very reasonable answers to that. One that we think about a lot is solving the scalability challenge.
Unleashing the Power of Real-time Crypto Data for Developers
With blockchain data becoming the apex of most decentralized and centralized protocols and platforms, the Chainalysis team is extremely excited to invite to the podcast and the company, Alexander Langshur, Michael Calvey, and Harry Mellsop of Transpose.
The panel discusses the importance and the drawbacks of vast amounts of blockchain data and how Transpose was able to make these massive data sets usable for developers in the web3 ecosystem.
The team describes use cases of their on-chain data collection for tax, compliance and crypto investigations purposes and highlights the emerging trends that they are seeing in their real-time crypto data.
The Transpose team walks through the journey of building a company amidst a downturn in the market and the decision to join Chainalysis to accelerate the scalability of their data.
Minute-by-minute episode breakdown- (2:25) - The founding team shares their experience in A.I., derivative financial products and self-driving cars and how Transpose was created
- (10:52) -Discussion on the importance of blockchain data infrastructure and how Transpose provides a solution for the crypto industry
- (18:45) - Solving the scalability challenge and how Transpose captures realtime blockchain data with the wide variety of blockchains
- (22:37) - The flexibility of utilizing on-chain data for tax, compliance and other crypto investigations use cases
- (25:45) - Emerging trends in data including stablecoins finding product market fit and NFT and ENS Domain usage
- (29:45) - The evolution of making blockchain data easier to read and what sets Transpose apart from other blockchain data dashboards
- (32:59) - Focusing on improving the UX of crypto for developers vs. customers
- (36:15) - The difficulties of building a company during crypto winter and the importance of perseverance as blockchain data founders
- (40:15)- The decision to being acquired by Chainalysis vs. continuing building the company as a stand-alone business
Check out more resources provided by Chainalysis that perfectly complement this episode of the Public Key.
- Website: Transpose: Real-time crypto data. Reliable data infrastructure for companies and developers at any scale
- Report: The Chainalysis Guide to On-Chain User Segmentation for Crypto Exchanges
- Blog: The Chainalysis Guide to On-Chain User Segmentation for Crypto Exchanges Report Preview
- Chainalysis In Action: Israeli Authorities Disrupt Hezbollah and Iran Quds Force Terrorism Financing Crypto Infrastructure, Seize $1.7 Million
- Announcement: Unveiling Indexed On-Chain Lending Data in Transpose
- Blog: How Transpose is different to Dune
- Announcement: Welcoming Transpose to Chainalysis
- YouTube: Chainalysis YouTube page
- Twitter: Chainalysis Twitter: Building trust in blockchain
- Tik Tok: Building trust in #blockchains among people, businesses, and governments.
- Telegram: Chainalysis on Telegram
- Ian Andrews * Host * (Chief Marketing Officer, Chainalysis)
- Alexander Langshur (Co-Founder & CEO, Transpose)
- Michael Calvey (Co-Founder & COO, Transpose)
- Harry Mellsop (Chief Technology Officer, Transpose)
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