QuickNode, a company that provides blockchain infrastructure powering secure and decentralized innovation has just unveiled a new, cutting-edge solution for real-time blockchain streaming. The solution, known simply as Streams, is meant to redefine the standards of reliability, speed, and simplicity in blockchain infrastructure.
What does Streams have to offer?
According to QuickNode, Streams will allow users to build robust data models instantly It will also complement the provider’s ETL portfolio by allowing users to utilize existing, and even popular programming languages, such as Go, Javascript, Ruby, and Python.
Through familiar languages, users will be able to transform payloads from Streams, and add contract data through QuickNode endpoints in order to enrich them further.
Streams will also allow developers to access full historical and real-time data from several leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and more. All of this will be possible with only a few clicks, and the company guarantees delivery. For developers, this opens up an entire world of new possibilities, such as the ability to develop powerful trading models, analytics, and the like.
A lot of this is especially relevant for crypto community members who anticipate the possible arrival of Ethereum ETFs, especially with Bitcoin ETFs seeing approval not too long ago. With Streams, they will also be able to access preset datasets, which would reduce the technical overhead and data retrieval. In short, it would make the process much faster and significantly more straightforward.
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How can devs and businesses benefit from Streams?
According to its design, Streams is meant to bridge the gap between conventional tools used for accessing data, and data stored on the blockchain. As most likely know, blockchain databases are isolated from the rest of the web, which is why blockchains themselves have to use oracles to retrieve information relating to the outside world.
As it turns out, the same problem exists in the opposite direction, which is where Streams comes in. Its goal is to address critical challenges that businesses and developers face when it comes to harnessing on-chain data for off-chain purposes.
Being an intuitive solution on top of that should only further enhance the development process by reducing operational costs, and speeding up time-to-market for blockchain-based applications. Before Streams’ public beta launch, the solution underwent months of testing in a Private Beta phase.
Streams reaffirms QuickNode’s desire to help advance Web3
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Commenting on the new tool, QuickNode’s director of product, Nick Yushkevich, said that the complexity regarding extracting, transforming, and loading data into applications has grown alongside blockchain data itself. Streams will be able to remove some of this complexity, and provide a simpler and better user experience.
So far, QuickNode’s solutions allowed the company to establish itself as a leader in blockchain development platforms. It has a proven API infrastructure that handles billions of requests per day at this point, serving numerous top-tier Web3 projects, as well as many businesses around the world.
Recently, the platform also expanded to support Zksync hyperchains, which only underlines its commitment to bettering privacy and scalability further. However, the launch of Streams also reaffirmed the platform’s desire to improve Web3 itself, by providing user-friendly infrastructure tools to the devs and businesses that seek to launch high-impact dApps.