Author: lesley@footprint.network

Backtesting is the use of historical cryptocurrency price data to simulate and assess the performance of a trading strategy or algorithm.

Backtesting plays a pivotal role in shaping successful trading strategies within the blockchain landscape. By uncovering profitable edges, it enables traders to construct rules-based approaches devoid of emotional biases.

Beyond this, backtesting instills confidence by allowing a thorough evaluation of strategy viability before any real capital is put at risk.

While backtesting brings a systematic approach to crypto trading, building practical backtesting inputs presents several challenges:

• The Time of Obtaining Historical Data

While blockchains retain exhaustive transaction records, crafting precise backtesting datasets from this raw data requires substantial expertise and infrastructure — beyond the reach of most small firms in terms of both time and efficiency.

• The Cost of Quality Data

Despite public blockchains being open-source, indexing the entire blockchain data incurs significant expenses. Building a node, cleaning the data, and organizing it require both expertise and resources.

While raw public data is accessible at no cost, transforming it into a format suitable for algorithmic trading backtests demands substantial computing resources and know-how.

The Footprint BatchDownload Solution is your objective answer to efficiently accessing blockchain historical data.

• 10x faster to get the data covering the full history

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This data covers the full history and you can retrieve incremental data within a single day, encompassing both full history and incremental updates.

• 80% cost savings compared to self-build data infrastructure

Experience significant cost savings with Footprint’s Batch Download ssolution. It’s far more economical than setting up nodes or pursuing a self-build approach. Benefit from affordable, developer-first pricing, ensuring that obtaining high-quality, structured historical blockchain data doesn’t break the bank. Save time, resources, and money with Footprint’s cost-effective solution.

Transforming blockchain data into backtesting-ready formats poses obstacles for traders. Footprint’s Batch Download provides 30+ clean, structured historical data to seamlessly power your modeling. Check our website or schedule a meeting to know more about the solution.

What is Footprint Analytics?

Footprint Analytics is a blockchain data solutions provider. It leverages cutting-edge AI technology to help analysts, builders, and investors turn blockchain data and combine Web2 data into insights with accessible visualization tools and a powerful multi-chain API across 20+ chains for NFTs, GameFi, and DeFi.

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