Subsquid’s CEO Dmitry Zhelezov participated in a panel at Infra Gardens in Denver discussing interoperability from infrastructure and middle layer perspectives alongside speakers from DIA, Coinfund, and LiFi Protocol.
On Subsquid’s Foundation
The platform was created to address a critical gap in blockchain infrastructure. The data access layer has been somewhat neglected despite scaling other blockchain components. Subsquid enables developers to index EVM and Substrate chains without archive node access, prioritizing flexibility and raw data availability.
Adoption Timeline
The article compares crypto infrastructure development to Web2 evolution, using YouTube as an example. Breakthrough projects push existing infrastructure limits rather than build final products. Current challenges include friction in cross-chain interactions and limited infrastructure scaling relative to chain proliferation.
Multichain Reality
Panelists acknowledged a multichain future with potentially thousands of blockchains, though many generate data without proportional user value. Recent upgrades like Dencun have reduced rollup costs, but developers still need composability at the data layer.
Indexing Approach
Subsquid differentiates itself by avoiding RPC node dependency, instead utilizing data providers that offer high-quality, refined data in permanent storage with a hash.