Dune

Dune is a blockchain data analytics platform that lets anyone query and build dashboards on top of indexed, structured on-chain data across major blockchains, without needing to run their own blockchain node or manually parse raw transaction data to answer questions about what's actually happening on a given network. Because blockchain data is public but stored in a raw, difficult-to-query format, Dune's core value is decoding and indexing that data into structured tables that can be queried directly using SQL, letting analysts, researchers, and crypto teams answer specific questions, like tracking usage of a particular decentralized application or measuring trading volume across a specific protocol, without needing deep blockchain infrastructure expertise themselves. Dashboards built on Dune are typically public and shareable, and the platform has built a large community of analysts who publish dashboards and queries covering popular protocols and trends, meaning a lot of common analysis has often already been done by someone else and can be reused or built upon rather than every team starting completely from scratch. Crypto projects use Dune to build public, transparent dashboards showing their own protocol's usage and health metrics, which serves as a form of public accountability that's distinctive to the transparent nature of public blockchain data. Dune is aimed at crypto analysts, protocol teams, and researchers who need to understand and communicate what's actually happening on-chain using real transaction data rather than a project's own self-reported metrics.