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2025 has been a defining year for Chainbase.
After three foundational years focused on infrastructure, we entered a new chapter: validating product-market fit at the platform level while cautiously stepping into commercialization and exploring data-empowered applications.
This year was less about vision, and more about answering real, practical questions:
Which parts of our stack are ready to be repeatable businesses?
Where does genuine, daily usage come from?
And how can our infrastructure, network, and applications strengthen each other in sustainable ways?
This post is a simple look back at what we built, what we learned, and where Chainbase stands today.
We view Chainbase as currently in the middle-late stage of PMF validation.
Our product and business is built across three interconnected layers:
Data Network - infrastructure and ecosystem
Data Platform - serving builders and both upstream and downstream crypto projects
Data Applications - real usage and revenue generating exploration
These layers are designed to reinforce one another, though each operates with different levels of maturity and focus.
2025 has been a defining year for Chainbase.
After three foundational years focused on infrastructure, we entered a new chapter: validating product-market fit at the platform level while cautiously stepping into commercialization and exploring data-empowered applications.
This year was less about vision, and more about answering real, practical questions:
Which parts of our stack are ready to be repeatable businesses?
Where does genuine, daily usage come from?
And how can our infrastructure, network, and applications strengthen each other in sustainable ways?
This post is a simple look back at what we built, what we learned, and where Chainbase stands today.
We view Chainbase as currently in the middle-late stage of PMF validation.
Our product and business is built across three interconnected layers:
Data Network - infrastructure and ecosystem
Data Platform - serving builders and both upstream and downstream crypto projects
Data Applications - real usage and revenue generating exploration
These layers are designed to reinforce one another, though each operates with different levels of maturity and focus.
At the core of Chainbase is the Hyperdata Network: a system designed to turn fragmented on-chain data into structured, verifiable, and AI-ready data. Chainbase Data Network is a blend of open-source tooling, token-based coordination, and infrastructure services.
Extraction (EVM Tracer): High-performance execution tracing for deep, bottom-layer data capture.
Modeling (Manuscript): Structuring raw data via our open-source framework — 600+ stars, 16 core devs, 19 releases.
Storage (WalruS3): An S3-compatible gateway for the Walrus protocol, ensuring decentralized and verifiable persistence.
Exchange (x402): Powering instant, pay-per-request data access and seamless value circulation.
Throughout 2025, Manuscript evolved into a practical, multi-chain data modeling framework. Supported by the deep-tracing capabilities of evm-tracer, the decentralized storage layer of WalruS3, and the monetization layer of x402, it enables modular deployment via Data Zones across AI, DeFi, and gaming — ensuring data is not only structured but also persistent, accessible, and monetizable.
By the end of 2025, Chainbase had integrated 220+ blockchains, forming one of the most comprehensive structured on-chain data networks in the industry.
This coverage supports:
Cross-chain applications
AI model training and inference
Unified analytics across fragmented ecosystems
A meaningful shift in 2025 was moving from pure infrastructure toward validating demand through real products — we stopped being only a “data provider” and began operating as a product-driven network.
Instead of pushing data outward, we started building products that pull genuine data demand from users and markets.
Tops structured attention, narratives, and on-chain signals.
BuilderMaps reduced the cost of understanding complex ecosystems.
and several interesting pilot applications building by our community
Together, these products created an early but meaningful loop:
Product usage → real data demand → network usage → data value → better products
2025 marked the launch of $C, introducing an economic layer to the Chainbase Network.
TGE completed on July 14, 2025
Listed on Binance, Bithumb, Bybit, Gate, MEXC, Bitget
Over 20 joint campaigns with exchanges
Coverage across 15+ regions
Reached roughly 5 million users globally
Approximately 20% effective conversion
At its peak, $C saw significant price appreciation, reached over 700% price growth. Beyond markets, $C enables liquidity, price discovery, and lays the groundwork for future data incentives, governance, and network coordination.
Airdrop Season 1 reached tens of thousands of real addresses, rewarding early contributors and setting expectations for long-term participation.
Tops launched in July 2025 as Chainbase’s first user-facing product.
It helps users see what’s trending in crypto in real time, by aggregating social and on-chain signals and summarizing them with AI. Importantly, Tops has been growing organically without heavy incentive mechanisms.
By the end of the year:
Ingestion & Structuring: 100k+ daily updates from X, Telegram, and News outlets
Information Compression Ratio: 1000:1
Inference Throughput: 600M+ Tokens/day dedicated to Sentiment & Entity Synthesis
MAU: 10,000+
Core users include traders, researchers, content creators, and early AI agents
In November, Tops Farming entered open beta. The goal here is not yield farming, but signal discovery through user behavior, market feedback, and multi-dimensional data shifts. It’s still early, and we are continuing to iterate based on how people actually use it.
Tops validated something important for us:
attention isn’t just noise — it can be structured, measured, and reused as data.
BuilderMaps launched in November 2025 as a public good.
It’s designed with a simple purpose: make ecosystems easier to understand and navigate. By mapping projects, protocols, developers, VCs, and tools in a structured way, BuilderMaps helps researchers, investors, and builders spend less time orienting and more time doing actual work.
In its first month:
570 projects across 7 major categories tracked
300K+ impressions on X
Shared and used by investors, founders, and ecosystem researchers
10+ external contributors joined to help maintain and expand datasets
BuilderMaps is not a revenue product. We see it as a long-term discovery channel and brand asset, strengthening our role as the “data cognition layer” of Web3.
We leaned into developer relations and AI expansion.
At ETHDenver, we consistently advocated for the data, compute, and LLM stack alongside partners such as Aethir and 0G.
We showcased IP-focused data processing integrations with Story Protocol, exploring how structured data could support programmable IP.
We strengthened our position as one of the most active AVSs within the EigenLayer ecosystem.
We also took an important step into Europe, demoing the Chainbase data platform for Superteam Balkan builders in Serbia as they prepared for the Solana Breakout hackathons. This was about showing up locally and supporting builders where they are, not just where the spotlight is.
We began prioritizing deeper technical collaboration and talent incentivization.
In Q3, we worked closely with the product team at Circle, gained early insight into their ARC roadmap, and integrated ARC stablecoin data into the Chainbase platform so developers and projects could more easily navigate and fetch stablecoin data.
We supported DIA with RWA and stablecoin-related data feeds.
We served as an early validator for Somnia through its mainnet launch, laying the groundwork for longer-term collaboration.
We deepened our integration with Base by deploying Tops on BaseApp and connecting with the Base team during Devcon.
Throughout the year, our most consistent and long-term ecosystem engagement remained with Sui.
Beyond validator operations for Sui and Walrus, we migrated parts of our data lake into Walrus to support decentralized storage.
We partnered on community initiatives and focused on being a reliable, hands-on ecosystem contributor.
Looking back, 2025 was the year we truly evaluated our partnership priorities and execution. This body of work became a natural transition into 2026, where we move forward with sharper focus, stronger alignment, and a clearer understanding of how partnerships should scale with the system we are building.
Chainbase’s global community continued to expand in 2025:
X followers: 440,000+
Discord members: ~330,000
Strong presence across China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and English-speaking markets
Following the $C launch, Chainbase reached 500,000+ high-quality users worldwide, with the community profile gradually shifting from trading-focused users toward builders, researchers, and data users. We collaborated with 50+ projects and DAOs across AI, Data, DeFi, RWA, and infrastructure, strengthening Chainbase’s role as a connective layer across ecosystems.
In 2025, Chainbase invested intentionally in building a clearer and more recognizable brand.
Brand & visual refresh
A refreshed visual system centered on black and white, accented with purple and yellow, reflecting a balance between technical maturity and innovation.
Memorable brand moments
Launched several widely praised merch, including Cbubu Box, Chainbase Aroma of TGE (in collaboration with DSM-Firmenich), and Chainbase Club × Solar co-branded merch. These initiatives reached millions organically and became notable examples of crypto-native brand storytelling.
Global offline presence
Active participation in major events such as KBW, Token2049 Singapore, and Solana Accelerate APAC, reaching 100,000+ attendees through in-person interactions and side events.
Chainbase Club
Launched Chainbase Club as a community hub for brand, culture, and connection, while rolling out new regional engagement initiatives.
Together, these efforts helped Chainbase move from being known primarily as a data infrastructure provider to a brand with a clearer identity, culture, and long-term presence in the ecosystem.
2025 was the year Chainbase moved from focusing on infrastructure to forming a living system.
Our network widened its reach and developer adoption, while our data platform kept delivering stable business and revenue.
Our applications started showing us where real demand lives. Our economic layer came online.
We are no longer building only for a distant future. We started to operate a system with real users, real workflows, real data demand, and real economic activity.
As AI and Web3 continue to converge, we step into the next phase with a clearer focus — and a sharper sense of what truly needs to be built.
We’re grateful to everyone who built with us, challenged us, and trusted us this year.
And we’re just getting started.
Chainbase is building the Hyperdata Network for AI — a foundational layer for the DataFi era.
Built as a Hyperdata Network, Chainbase turns onchain signals into structured, verifiable, and AI-ready data that can be directly processed by AI models and decentralized applications. Its core stack includes:
Manuscript: a programmable layer for building data assets;
AVS layer: decentralized data execution and verification;
$C Token: the native currency for AGI.
This structured data layer supports a new generation of crypto applications that are autonomous, composable, and economically aligned with their users and contributors.
To date, Chainbase has indexed over 200 blockchains, processed more than 500 billion data calls, and supports a community of more than 35,000 developers. Over 10,000 projects actively use Chainbase across a wide range of use cases, including MEV infrastructure, L2 explorers, agent protocols, and onchain analytics.
The founding team brings deep experience in blockchain infrastructure, data engineering, and protocol security. Chainbase is backed by top-tier investors and works closely with ecosystems across modular infrastructure, large language models, and onchain AI.
As the need for machine-readable and economically aligned data continues to grow, Chainbase provides the foundational layer for a programmable data economy—one where information moves freely between agents, protocols, and people.
At the core of Chainbase is the Hyperdata Network: a system designed to turn fragmented on-chain data into structured, verifiable, and AI-ready data. Chainbase Data Network is a blend of open-source tooling, token-based coordination, and infrastructure services.
Extraction (EVM Tracer): High-performance execution tracing for deep, bottom-layer data capture.
Modeling (Manuscript): Structuring raw data via our open-source framework — 600+ stars, 16 core devs, 19 releases.
Storage (WalruS3): An S3-compatible gateway for the Walrus protocol, ensuring decentralized and verifiable persistence.
Exchange (x402): Powering instant, pay-per-request data access and seamless value circulation.
Throughout 2025, Manuscript evolved into a practical, multi-chain data modeling framework. Supported by the deep-tracing capabilities of evm-tracer, the decentralized storage layer of WalruS3, and the monetization layer of x402, it enables modular deployment via Data Zones across AI, DeFi, and gaming — ensuring data is not only structured but also persistent, accessible, and monetizable.
By the end of 2025, Chainbase had integrated 220+ blockchains, forming one of the most comprehensive structured on-chain data networks in the industry.
This coverage supports:
Cross-chain applications
AI model training and inference
Unified analytics across fragmented ecosystems
A meaningful shift in 2025 was moving from pure infrastructure toward validating demand through real products — we stopped being only a “data provider” and began operating as a product-driven network.
Instead of pushing data outward, we started building products that pull genuine data demand from users and markets.
Tops structured attention, narratives, and on-chain signals.
BuilderMaps reduced the cost of understanding complex ecosystems.
and several interesting pilot applications building by our community
Together, these products created an early but meaningful loop:
Product usage → real data demand → network usage → data value → better products
2025 marked the launch of $C, introducing an economic layer to the Chainbase Network.
TGE completed on July 14, 2025
Listed on Binance, Bithumb, Bybit, Gate, MEXC, Bitget
Over 20 joint campaigns with exchanges
Coverage across 15+ regions
Reached roughly 5 million users globally
Approximately 20% effective conversion
At its peak, $C saw significant price appreciation, reached over 700% price growth. Beyond markets, $C enables liquidity, price discovery, and lays the groundwork for future data incentives, governance, and network coordination.
Airdrop Season 1 reached tens of thousands of real addresses, rewarding early contributors and setting expectations for long-term participation.
Tops launched in July 2025 as Chainbase’s first user-facing product.
It helps users see what’s trending in crypto in real time, by aggregating social and on-chain signals and summarizing them with AI. Importantly, Tops has been growing organically without heavy incentive mechanisms.
By the end of the year:
Ingestion & Structuring: 100k+ daily updates from X, Telegram, and News outlets
Information Compression Ratio: 1000:1
Inference Throughput: 600M+ Tokens/day dedicated to Sentiment & Entity Synthesis
MAU: 10,000+
Core users include traders, researchers, content creators, and early AI agents
In November, Tops Farming entered open beta. The goal here is not yield farming, but signal discovery through user behavior, market feedback, and multi-dimensional data shifts. It’s still early, and we are continuing to iterate based on how people actually use it.
Tops validated something important for us:
attention isn’t just noise — it can be structured, measured, and reused as data.
BuilderMaps launched in November 2025 as a public good.
It’s designed with a simple purpose: make ecosystems easier to understand and navigate. By mapping projects, protocols, developers, VCs, and tools in a structured way, BuilderMaps helps researchers, investors, and builders spend less time orienting and more time doing actual work.
In its first month:
570 projects across 7 major categories tracked
300K+ impressions on X
Shared and used by investors, founders, and ecosystem researchers
10+ external contributors joined to help maintain and expand datasets
BuilderMaps is not a revenue product. We see it as a long-term discovery channel and brand asset, strengthening our role as the “data cognition layer” of Web3.
We leaned into developer relations and AI expansion.
At ETHDenver, we consistently advocated for the data, compute, and LLM stack alongside partners such as Aethir and 0G.
We showcased IP-focused data processing integrations with Story Protocol, exploring how structured data could support programmable IP.
We strengthened our position as one of the most active AVSs within the EigenLayer ecosystem.
We also took an important step into Europe, demoing the Chainbase data platform for Superteam Balkan builders in Serbia as they prepared for the Solana Breakout hackathons. This was about showing up locally and supporting builders where they are, not just where the spotlight is.
We began prioritizing deeper technical collaboration and talent incentivization.
In Q3, we worked closely with the product team at Circle, gained early insight into their ARC roadmap, and integrated ARC stablecoin data into the Chainbase platform so developers and projects could more easily navigate and fetch stablecoin data.
We supported DIA with RWA and stablecoin-related data feeds.
We served as an early validator for Somnia through its mainnet launch, laying the groundwork for longer-term collaboration.
We deepened our integration with Base by deploying Tops on BaseApp and connecting with the Base team during Devcon.
Throughout the year, our most consistent and long-term ecosystem engagement remained with Sui.
Beyond validator operations for Sui and Walrus, we migrated parts of our data lake into Walrus to support decentralized storage.
We partnered on community initiatives and focused on being a reliable, hands-on ecosystem contributor.
Looking back, 2025 was the year we truly evaluated our partnership priorities and execution. This body of work became a natural transition into 2026, where we move forward with sharper focus, stronger alignment, and a clearer understanding of how partnerships should scale with the system we are building.
Chainbase’s global community continued to expand in 2025:
X followers: 440,000+
Discord members: ~330,000
Strong presence across China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and English-speaking markets
Following the $C launch, Chainbase reached 500,000+ high-quality users worldwide, with the community profile gradually shifting from trading-focused users toward builders, researchers, and data users. We collaborated with 50+ projects and DAOs across AI, Data, DeFi, RWA, and infrastructure, strengthening Chainbase’s role as a connective layer across ecosystems.
In 2025, Chainbase invested intentionally in building a clearer and more recognizable brand.
Brand & visual refresh
A refreshed visual system centered on black and white, accented with purple and yellow, reflecting a balance between technical maturity and innovation.
Memorable brand moments
Launched several widely praised merch, including Cbubu Box, Chainbase Aroma of TGE (in collaboration with DSM-Firmenich), and Chainbase Club × Solar co-branded merch. These initiatives reached millions organically and became notable examples of crypto-native brand storytelling.
Global offline presence
Active participation in major events such as KBW, Token2049 Singapore, and Solana Accelerate APAC, reaching 100,000+ attendees through in-person interactions and side events.
Chainbase Club
Launched Chainbase Club as a community hub for brand, culture, and connection, while rolling out new regional engagement initiatives.
Together, these efforts helped Chainbase move from being known primarily as a data infrastructure provider to a brand with a clearer identity, culture, and long-term presence in the ecosystem.
2025 was the year Chainbase moved from focusing on infrastructure to forming a living system.
Our network widened its reach and developer adoption, while our data platform kept delivering stable business and revenue.
Our applications started showing us where real demand lives. Our economic layer came online.
We are no longer building only for a distant future. We started to operate a system with real users, real workflows, real data demand, and real economic activity.
As AI and Web3 continue to converge, we step into the next phase with a clearer focus — and a sharper sense of what truly needs to be built.
We’re grateful to everyone who built with us, challenged us, and trusted us this year.
And we’re just getting started.
Chainbase is building the Hyperdata Network for AI — a foundational layer for the DataFi era.
Built as a Hyperdata Network, Chainbase turns onchain signals into structured, verifiable, and AI-ready data that can be directly processed by AI models and decentralized applications. Its core stack includes:
Manuscript: a programmable layer for building data assets;
AVS layer: decentralized data execution and verification;
$C Token: the native currency for AGI.
This structured data layer supports a new generation of crypto applications that are autonomous, composable, and economically aligned with their users and contributors.
To date, Chainbase has indexed over 200 blockchains, processed more than 500 billion data calls, and supports a community of more than 35,000 developers. Over 10,000 projects actively use Chainbase across a wide range of use cases, including MEV infrastructure, L2 explorers, agent protocols, and onchain analytics.
The founding team brings deep experience in blockchain infrastructure, data engineering, and protocol security. Chainbase is backed by top-tier investors and works closely with ecosystems across modular infrastructure, large language models, and onchain AI.
As the need for machine-readable and economically aligned data continues to grow, Chainbase provides the foundational layer for a programmable data economy—one where information moves freely between agents, protocols, and people.
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