Announcing Our Engineering Blog Series: ‘How We Build’ by the Token Terminal Engineering Team

We’re excited to launch our new blog series, ‘How We Build,’ where our engineering team takes you behind the scenes to reveal how we run a scalable and reliable blockchain data pipeline—the core infrastructure powering all of Token Terminal’s products. From managing in-house node infrastructure across 40+ blockchains to maintaining a 400TB data warehouse.

The first three posts are already live, with more on the way:

1. How ELT keeps us ahead of the curve Discover how we leverage the ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) method to handle large-scale blockchain data. By loading raw data into our warehouse first and transforming it later, we gain the flexibility, scalability, and speed required to manage data from 100+ blockchains and thousands of protocols.

2. How Data Lakes solve crypto data’s cold start problem Learn how Data Lakes address crypto’s “cold start” problem by storing raw blockchain data, eliminating the need for constant re-indexing. This strategy improves analytics efficiency and adaptability, enabling us to analyze and transform data on the fly with SQL queries.

3. No history, no trust: why full nodes alone aren’t enough We explain why full nodes aren’t enough for complete blockchain transparency. Archival nodes, which store the entire history of the blockchain, enable detailed audits and verifications that are critical for building trust in decentralized systems.

Stay tuned for more in-depth looks at the technology and infrastructure that make Token Terminal’s products possible!