“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” - Bill Gates.
AI adoption is accelerating across sectors, including cryptocurrency, where builders deploy agents on-chain daily. While frameworks like Eliza and protocols such as Virtuals have lowered barriers to agent creation, sustained growth requires access to verified data.
Traditional Data Infrastructure Limitations
Current data systems face critical constraints:
- Bottlenecks: Limited bandwidth and rate restrictions
- Walled gardens: Restricted data contribution rights reduce accessible data scope
- High fixed costs: Centralized operations are expensive with no scaling flexibility
- Restricted access: Agents may lack current infrastructure access
- Poor composability: Combining datasets from centralized sources remains nearly impossible
Traditional systems cannot adapt to support millions of agents.
Web3’s Advantages for Agents
Web3 provides unique benefits:
- 24/7 payment infrastructure
- Permissionless architecture
- Built-in verification and transparency
- Access to high-value financial data
Early successes like AIXBT demonstrate the potential of agents combining multiple data sources using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Onchain Agent Data Requirements
Agents need:
- Real-time blockchain data (transactions, price feeds, state changes, history)
- Scale supporting thousands of concurrent requests across multiple sources
- Composability enabling on- and off-chain data combination
The Solution: Emergent Database Network
SQD developed an emergent database network addressing these challenges through:
- Contribution: Community members can add queryable datasets
- Curation: SQD tokens ensure verification and quality assurance
- Usage: Lightweight Portal client enables direct data interaction
This creates a positive feedback loop: attractive datasets drive usage, increasing node operator rewards and reducing access costs.
Open Access Benefits
“Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.” - Tim Berners-Lee.
SQD provides:
- Open architecture: Developers freely combine datasets
- Community growth: Thousands expanding and refining data
- Removed gatekeepers: Anyone can join as operators or consumers
- Self-sovereignty: Users can run personal clients
Network effects create competitive advantages through improved speed and cost as participation grows.
Looking Forward
The agentic economy will demand infrastructure supporting billions of requests. Beyond individuals, enterprises will seek agents for supply chain analytics, financial risk monitoring, and operational enhancement.
SQD has partnered with scade.pro (backed by Nvidia and OpenAI) to launch an AI grants program accelerating agent adoption and supporting builders at the intersection of AI and data infrastructure.
Interested builders can connect via Telegram to integrate their agents with SQD.