Space and Time is the first Web3-based decentralized database that connects on-chain and off-chain data, enabling a wide range of enterprise-grade use cases for smart contract applications. As part of Chainlink Labs' Startup with Chainlink project, the platform provides users and developers with the ability to connect analytics directly to smart contracts through novel Proof of SQL cryptography, opening up a whole new set of use cases and Business logic. Space and Time is a multi-chain data platform built for developers of DeFi and Web3 games or any project that requires further analysis.
Space and Time is a Web3-native decentralized database designed to connect on-chain and off-chain data to provide a wide range of enterprise-level use cases for smart contract applications.
Space and Time connects on-chain and off-chain data in a trustless environment, powering low-latency transactions and enterprise-grade analytics. The protocol's decentralized database capabilities allow for the creation, connection and query of cryptographically secured data in Space and Time's next-generation data platform
What makes Space and Time attractive:
Transactions + analytics (data on-chain and off-chain): Imagine The Graph meets Snowflake, but with cryptographic guarantees. Load data from any source and run sub-second analytics to produce verifiable, tamper-proof results while remaining fully decentralized. Space and Time™ is a hybrid database and data warehouse that supports both transactional and analytical queries in a single cluster (HTAP).
SQL™ Proof: Trustless smart contract connection. Connect data and analytics directly to smart contracts with cryptographic guarantees. Whether aggregating data we index from the main chain, or connecting off-chain data sources, we enable smart contracts to execute tamper-proof SQL. For example, your smart contract could ask to "show the top wallets that recently won this game for on-chain rewards.
Web3-native
Tools. A developer platform for dapps. Build dapps across space and time using the Web3 stack, accessing real-time data we index from major chains like Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Binance, and Sui. We provide native integrations for Chainlink oracles, decentralized storage, web3.js/ethers.js, and more. Space and Time enables enterprise scale. Easy elastic scalability to tens of terabytes. Petabytes of storage. Major blockchains generate terabytes of data. Our network elastically scales to petabytes, and data storage is always free. Load your own data from source systems using REST API, JDBC, Kafka Streams, ETL tools, and more.
Encryption and Privacy. We encrypt private data at rest and in transit, enabling enterprises to combine public on-chain data with loaded, sensitive, private off-chain data.
high throughput. We scale to thousands of concurrent requests with high TPS to support dapps and analytics...regardless of query complexity.
In the Web2 world, the use of databases by programs is ubiquitous and indispensable. Although the blockchain has powerful features such as decentralization and non-tampering, it cannot perform the same functions as a database. It is difficult for people to implement some high-concurrency, frequent read and write services on the blockchain. The lack of TPS inherently limits the frequent reading and writing of data. The characteristics of the blockchain that cannot be tampered with and cannot be deleted are also destined to accumulate a large amount of redundant data and invalid data to waste resources if all business data is to be run on the blockchain. In the end, even if there is a project party that puts all the complex business data on the chain, it is difficult to pay the high gas cost. With the emergence of Space and Time, these problems will be solved.