We’re excited to announce that Space and Time now supports views! Let’s talk about why that’s a game-changer for query optimization.

Views help optimize your workflow and provide a framework to run queries more efficiently. A standard view is basically a saved shortcut for a query that you can reference in a new SQL statement. There are also two types of specialized views that SxT supports: materialized views and parameterized views.

🚀Materialized views essentially act as a cheat sheet for your database, storing the answers to complex queries so they’re easy to grab the next time the same query is run.

🚀Parameterized views add another layer of flexibility. Instead of simply saving a specific query like a standard view, they provide a template that’s customized each time the query is run.

Views offer a simple and elegant way to speed up data retrieval and allow the database to run more efficiently, ultimately improving your app’s performance and user experience.

For a deep dive, check out this blog by SxT Head of Database Engineering Johnny Debrodt: https://www.spaceandtime.io/blog/space-and-time-views

Build with high-performance analytics. #BUIDLwithSxT. https://spaceandtime.io/access-beta

Proof of SQL is here.

We’re thrilled to announce the alpha release of Proof of SQL, Space and Time’s novel zk-proof. Space and Time customers can now compose data-driven dapps and business processes with verifiable data and compute.

Proof of SQL is the novel cryptography developed by Space and Time that allows the data warehouse to generate a SNARK cryptographic proof of SQL query execution, proving that query computation was done accurately and that both the query and the data are verifiably tamperpoof. Proof of SQL enables you to run trustless queries against both on-chain and off-chain data and connect the result back to your smart contracts on-chain. This essentially allows smart contracts to ask questions about data on their own chain, data on other chains, and off-chain data from any source.

This is a game-changer not only for Web3, but for any enterprise, game, database, or LLM that needs to know that their SQL operations are verifiably tamperproof.

Learn more about Proof of SQL: https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentralized-web3-data-service-onboards-zkproofs

Earlier this month, Space and Time launched Proof of SQL, a novel zk-proof that guarantees the integrity of query results.

Proof of SQL is a groundbreaking piece of technology that’s fundamentally transforming both Web3 and enterprise data management. But if you’re not a Web3 developer or a zk expert, you may be wondering…

❓ What is Proof of SQL?
❓ How does it work?
❓ What does it solve for Web3?
❓ What does it solve for enterprises?
❓ Why is it so important?

Head of Product Marketing Catherine Daly breaks the protocol down to the basics in the latest Space and Time blog: Proof of SQL 101.

https://spaceandtime.io/blog/proof-of-sql-101

Space and Time at SmartCon 2023:

🎙 Keynote by Nate Holiday
🎙 Presentation by Scott Dykstra
🎪 Space and Time booth
🎮 PreGame
👨‍💻 Hacker House
🔥 AI symposium

Stay tuned for more details in the next few weeks!

⬆️ What if your smart contract could ask data-driven questions about data on other chains? 🤔

Imagine…

🚀 A derivatives protocol on Arbitrum that queries interest rates from Polygon
🚀 A lending protocol on Sui that asks questions about borrowing rates on Avalanche
🚀 A liquidity pool on Solana that adjusts its fees based on trading volumes on Ethereum

Only one week until Chainlink SmartCon! Here’s where you can find the Space and Time team in Barcelona:

🎙 Keynote by Nate Holiday | Oct 2 at 13:30 CEST @ Gaudi Stage
🎙 Presentation by Scott Dykstra | Oct 3 at 10:40 CEST @ Dali Stage
🎪 SxT booth | Oct 2-3 @ the expo hall
🎮 PreGame | Oct 1 at 19:30 - 23:30 CEST @ InterContinental Barcelona
👨‍💻 Hacker House | Oct 1 11:30 CEST @ InterContinental Barcelona
🔥 AI symposium | Oct 3 at 11:20 CEST @ Miró stage

Wen SmartCon 2024? 👀

In this SxT blog, the team recaps our week at SmartCon 2023, including…

📰 Announcing Pay per Compute
👩‍💻 Hacker House
🎮 PreGame
🎙 CEO Nate Holiday on TradeTalks
✅ Announcing Proof of SQL will be verified by Chainlink
🎙 Nate’s keynote on ZK compute
🛠 Head of Ecosystem Ebru Engwall’s Web3 infrastructure panel
🎙 CTO Scott Dykstra’s ZK database presentation
🤖 The 0xAI symposium
🔥 Nate’s fireside chat with Microsoft's Rashmi Misra
⛹️‍♂️ The SxT team in the arena

… and more! Shoutout to the team at Chainlink for putting on an incredible event. Looking forward to next year 🤝

Read the blog here: https://spaceandtime.io/blog/space-and-time-at-smartcon-2023

We are thrilled to announce that Space and Time is enabling Proof of SQL to verify queries in Google Cloud’s BigQuery!

✅ Proof of SQL will provide BigQuery customers cryptographic assurance that their data hasn’t been manipulated and that their queries are returning a verifiable answer.

🤝 Proof of SQL can now be connected to any SQL database or data warehouse to provide ZK-verified query processing over data in Google Cloud.

Enterprises are already beginning to demand verifiability throughout their stacks, and it’s only going to continue to accelerate. Through our collaboration with Google Cloud, Space and Time is laying the groundwork for the Verify Everything future.

Space and Time is also now available to deploy from the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Read the announcement below 👇
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/space-time-enables-zk-proof-184129584.html

Space and Time is now indexing Bitcoin!

Bullish on BTC? You can use the Space and Time Studio to query ZK-indexed Bitcoin data and generate dashboards that show you…

🟠 Historical price trends
🟠 Realtime market movements
🟠 Network health insights
🟠 Ordinals and inscriptions analysis

...and more! Head over to the Studio to start exploring Bitcoin data!

🔎 https://app.spaceandtime.ai/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bitcoin

We’re thrilled to announce that Blitzar, the GPU acceleration framework powering Proof of SQL, is now available to ZK projects and devs in open source ⚡️

Check out the exclusive from Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/space-and-time-open-sources-gpu-accelerator-for-zk-proofs

Let’s break it down…

⚡️ What is an acceleration framework and why is it needed?

ZK proofs are, at the most basic level, math running on data. That math is complex and computationally-intensive, and if you want it to run really fast, software only gets you so far. Eventually, you have to accelerate it at the hardware level. A hardware acceleration framework is a software tool that offloads computationally-intensive tasks to specialized hardware, such as GPUs. It speeds up performance and optimizes the way that a ZK protocol runs.

⚡️ Why GPUs?

GPUs are a type of hardware particularly well suited for the kind of math involved in ZK proof generation. Unlike CPUs, GPUs execute tasks in parallel, and most ZK protocol runtime is parallel by nature. They also scale more easily and deliver higher performance at a lower cost. Many of the most popular ZK proofs, including Proof of SQL, leverage GPUs.

⚡️ Why Blitzar?

A GPU acceleration framework acts essentially as a firmware layer between the software and hardware that maps the ZK proof software to a GPU and ensures that the math runs really fast. As we began developing the Proof of SQL protocol and looking for an open-source GPU acceleration framework to use, we realized that Proof of SQL needed something better than what was available on the market… So we built Blitzar from the ground up.

Now, Proof of SQL runs sub-second, and it’s only getting faster. 🤯⚡️

⚡️ Why open-source?

Space and Time is dedicated to open-source. We also see ZK as the future of computation, and GPU acceleration is a critical piece of running ZK efficiently. We open-sourced Blitzar to provide the Web3 community with a faster and more robust framework for building GPU-accelerated ZK proofs, and to invite the community to contribute to improving the framework.

⚡️ Who can use it?

Blitzar is available to any ZK protocol looking for rapid GPU acceleration! Two of the most expensive portions of producing a ZK proof are multi-scalar multiplication and inner-product arguments, which are what we’ve focused on accelerating with Blitzar. Today, the framework can be used by any project that wants to accelerate MSM or IPA, and we’re excited to build with the community to expand the supported functions and satisfy a wider range of ZK use cases.

Get started at http://spaceandtime.io/blitzar ⚡️

We’re excited to announce that Space and Time now supports GraphQL 🔎

GraphQL is a query language for APIs. Compared to SQL, which is structured around predefined schemas and often requires multiple queries to different tables to aggregate data, GraphQL is a more flexible and efficient way to get the data you need to your app.

You can use GraphQL to query your own tables in Space and Time as well as all indexed blockchain data that we provide, just like you can through the core SQL REST APIs.

GraphQL is ideal for use cases that are too complicated for standard SQL, such as:

🔎 Custom/flexible data retrieval: Define precisely what data you want to retrieve in a single query, rather than relying on a fixed set of server-defined endpoints.

🔎 Simpler data aggregation: Integrate and fetch data from various tables in Space and Time. You can use it to query multiple tables that otherwise aren't joinable for simpler data aggregation.

Get started on the Space and Time Studio: https://app.spaceandtime.ai/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=graphql

We’re excited to announce Smart Contract Indexing: a new feature of our blockchain indexing service that allows you to generate custom tables from your own smart contract events 🎉

Our indexing service already provides both chain-level data that’s stored in “core” tables, as well as protocol-specific semantic datasets from protocols like Aave, Uniswap, OpenSea, dYdX, or price feeds.

But we also understand that sometimes developers need access to data around events emitted by their own smart contracts, and we wanted to abstract away the complexity of having to sort through our core tables to get it.

Now, you can submit a list of smart contracts for indexing, and Space and Time will create a new set of custom tables that contain the events from those specific smart contracts. We write the emitted events into new tables that can then be queried, joined with other indexed data or offchain data, and ZK proven sub-second.

This allows devs to create highly customized, efficient, and sophisticated applications that leverage chain-level data, protocol-specific data, offchain data, and data from their own smart contract events in a fast, affordable, and ZK-proven way.

It’s as easy as submitting your contract address.

Read more about the feature on the SxT blog: https://spaceandtime.io/blog/smart-contract-indexing

Get started on the Space and Time Studio: https://app.spaceandtime.ai/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sci

Sui Expands Partnership with Space and Time to Simplify Developer Data Access 🌊

We’re excited to provide the Sui Network developer community with a powerful set of tools for retrieving, processing, and integrating Sui data into their dapps. 🤝

Space and Time already indexes data from Sui in a realtime, ZK-proven way and stores an entire copy of the Sui chain in relational tables in the SxT data warehouse, where developers can query/run analytics against it, join it with offchain data, ZK-prove it, and send the results back to their smart contracts on Sui.

We’re thrilled to now also be supporting the Sui community with the next gen of RPC nodes, which will make it easier for developers to access onchain transactions. 🫡

Read the news from CoinDesk below 👇

https://coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/03/protocol-village/

We're excited to announce that we released Proof of SQL to the community!

Proof of SQL is a novel ZK proof developed by SxT, which cryptographically guarantees that SQL database queries were computed accurately against untampered data. Using Proof of SQL, developers can compute over both onchain and offchain datasets in a trustless manner, proving the result back to their smart contract just-in-time during a transaction to power more sophisticated DeFi protocols with data-driven smart contracts.

Read more: https://cointelegraph.com/news/open-source-zk-proof-slashes-sql-query-times-sub-seconds

Check out the GitHub repo: https://github.com/spaceandtimelabs/sxt-proof-of-sql

We’re thrilled to announce that Space and Time (SxT) is the ZK coprocessor for Karak_Network! 🍊🤝🚀

Karak is expanding its vision of universal security by integrating SxT to power trustless rewards and slashing for its Distributed Secure Services (DSS). This strategic integration accelerates Karak’s vision for universal security and extends SxT’s capabilities to other DSSs as well. Additionally, SxT is building a DSS for its own blockchain indexing service so that community members can easily run indexing nodes in the SxT network.

Read more about the partnership: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2024/07/universal-security-provider-karak-partners-with-space-and-time-to-improve-slashing-mechanism

We're excited to introduce Space and Tokens, a sophisticated tokenomics platform designed to help you optimize your token utility and distribution strategy! You can access the app at http://spaceandtokens.ai/.

We’re integrating Space and Tokens (formerly Cenit Finance) into the SxT product suite so that developers can use SxT to build AI apps, data-driven smart contracts, and sophisticated token economies—all within a unified, verified platform. The gigabrains behind Space and Tokens have also joined the SxT core team and will be contributing to some exciting new AI developer tools that we’re currently cooking up.

Read the announcement here: https://www.spaceandtime.io/blog/cenit-finance-joins-space-and-time-product-suite-as-space-and-tokens

For more information about Space and Tokens, or for help on how to use the platform, join the SxT Discord community: http://discord.gg/spaceandtimedb

We are thrilled to announce that Space and Time Labs has secured a $20M Series A, bringing our total funding to $50 million.

https://x.com/SpaceandTimeDB/status/1828419534941733216

SxT is empowering the community to own their future in an AI-powered world by providing the tools they need to build sophisticated, data-driven applications, tokenize them onchain, and win in the AI economy.

Generate a new world with Space and Time, secured by our sub-second ZK coprocessor: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/08/27/exclusive-microsoft-space-and-time-framework-lightspeed-arrington-ai-crypto/

Community ownership will become more important than ever as AI continues to accelerate. Blockchain technology lays the foundation for a future where anyone can build an application, deploy it to their community, and create a tokenized economy around it, without any centralized intermediaries in the way.

But today, smart contracts devs are building with their hands tied behind their backs, stuck with self-referential opcodes which can’t access even the most basic answers about activity onchain. This significantly limits the design space for onchain apps.

Realizing a better tokenized future requires two things:

🟣 Easy AI tools that allow anyone to build an onchain app and accelerate developer’s time to deployment.
🟣 A trusted source that provides ZK-verifiable, realtime data to your smart contracts and opens up the design space for apps.

Learn more about our vision in this blog by CEO Nate Holiday: https://www.spaceandtime.io/blog/own-your-future-and-win-in-the-ai-economy-the-next-chapter-of-sxt

The first sub-second ZK coprocessor just got even faster 🤯

We’re excited to share the latest Proof of SQL benchmarks, which show a ~40% increase in performance since the repo was made available on GitHub in June.

You can now prove analytic queries against…

🟣 100k rows of data in 0.4 seconds
🟣 200k rows of data sub-second
🟣 1M rows of data in 1.2 seconds
🟣 100M rows of data in ~1 minute

Full benchmarks available in the repo: http://spaceandtime.io/proofofsql

Proof of SQL is the first sub-second ZK coprocessor (optimized specifically for SQL) that enables your smart contract to process data at the scale required to power your application in the time it needs to transact.

We delivered this new primitive to expand the design space for devs to build data-driven experiences onchain, fully ZK-verified.

Introducing SXT Chain.

Build the future of AI apps and DeFi with SXT: the blockchain for ZK-proven data.

Now live in testnet. 🚀 ⌛️

Read the announcement: https://x.com/SpaceandTimeDB/status/1851489907753320863