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March 11, 2026
PortalCloudNetworkSDKFeatureNew chain

Portal & Network Updates

  • Tempo network fields — Portal query layer supports Tempo network transaction fields
  • Portal Pools dashboard — Portal Pools UI integrated into Network App
  • Portal streaming performance — Fixed streaming bottleneck (was capped at ~5 MB/s)
  • Portal MCP Server — MCP server deployed to portal.sqd.dev (learn more)
  • HyperCore documentation — Added documentation for Hyperliquid fills queries and replica commands alongside HyperEVM support

SDK & Improvements

  • Tempo Transactions — Added support for Tempo Transactions (type 0x76) in Squid SDK
  • Squid SDK fix — Fix duplicate charset in Prometheus content-type header

Cloud Features

  • Billing Limits & Usage Alerts — Users can now set spending caps and receive usage alerts (pricing details)
  • Cloud UI Refresh — Refreshed UI for the Cloud platform

New Chains

  • World added to Portal
  • Sei added to Portal
  • Stable added to Portal
  • Katana added to Portal
  • Flare hotblocks enabled
  • Ink hotblocks enabled

Bug Fixes

  • llms.txt and llms-full.txt — Fixed issues with llms.txt and llms-full.txt endpoints; both now work correctly

Removed

  • Retention feature — Retention functionality dropped from Portal API
February 28, 2026
PortalCloudSDKFeature

Portal & Data Features

  • Dynamic metadata — Portal now reads and exposes dataset metadata dynamically instead of hardcoded mapping
  • /resolve-timestamp endpoint — New Portal endpoint for converting Unix timestamps to block numbers

SDK & Pipes

  • Pipes UI metrics — Metrics fetching moved to server-side, supports metrics display for multiple pipe instances
  • Profiler — Made OpenTelemetry compatible
  • Production-ready Pipes SDK EVM example — Production-ready pipe example for EVM published
  • Relationships without FK constraints — Squid SDK now supports relationships without foreign key constraints
  • ABI service — ABI service for simplified ABI fetching and type generation shipped
  • Solana instruction decoder — Added to Pipes SDK with rollback chain logic improvements

Cloud Improvements

  • Read-only database access — Cloud deployments now support read-only database access; Viewer role gets read-only DB access by default
  • Latency chart — Latency chart added to Cloud deployment metrics; latency data exposed in API
  • CLI confirmation promptssqd CLI now prompts for confirmation before deleting PostgreSQL databases
  • Advanced logs filtering — Advanced logs filtering and live log streaming in Cloud console
  • RPC proxy enhancements — eRPC third-party plugin added, request batching added to RPC proxy

Network & Other

  • Network App sidebar — Sidebar menu in Network App is now collapsible
  • Portal fallback — Fallback handling for when Portal is down
  • Botanix & Gnosis hotblocks — Botanix added to Portal, Hotblocks enabled for Gnosis Mainnet
  • Botanix docs — Botanix network added to documentation

Community & Ecosystem

  • Agent Skills on skills.sh — SQD agent skills published to skills.sh, making them discoverable in the AI agent skills marketplace
  • Agentic Commerce Market Map — SQD featured in Agentic Commerce Market Map as blockchain data infrastructure for AI commerce agents
  • Polygains — Community member launched Polygains, a MEV analytics platform built with SQD (announcement, source code)
  • Solana Data Room — Interactive Solana network statistics dashboard launched at room.soldexer.dev/feb-2026 — the network, in one glance (announcement)
February 11, 2026
SDKPortalFeature
AI-Ready Docs & Tooling

AI-ready docs and tooling

If you use Claude, Cursor, or any AI coding assistant — you can now query blockchain data and search our docs without leaving your editor.
  • Portal MCP Server — Add it to your Claude or Cursor config and your AI assistant gets direct access to SQD Portal. Query 100+ chains, pull token transfers, check wallet activity, or analyze contracts in plain English. Set it up →
  • Docs MCP Server — A separate MCP server that lets your AI assistant search and retrieve SQD documentation directly — answers grounded in our actual docs, not whatever the model was trained on. Learn more
  • llms.txt and SKILL.md — Machine-readable files that help AI tools understand what SQD does. Compatible tools pick these up automatically. (llms.txt, SKILL.md)
  • Context7 — Our docs are indexed on context7.com. If your AI tools integrate with Context7, you already have SQD docs in context.
  • OpenAPI schemasEVM and Solana OpenAPI schemas exposed in documentation
January 31, 2026
PortalCloudSDKNetworkFeatureNew chain

Portal & Network

  • Real-time datasets — Real-time data now available for: arbitrum-sepolia, optimism-mainnet, monad-testnet, monad-mainnet, gnosis-mainnet
  • Real-time APY & TVL charts — APY and TVL charts now update in real-time
  • Dynamic dataset sizes — Dataset sizes now dynamically displayed on SQD.ai, updating every ~24 hours
  • Portal API V2 compatibility dropped — V2 compatibility layer removed from Portal API specification
  • x-sqd-head-number header — Portal now supports x-sqd-head-number header for checking latest block

SDK Features

  • ABI service integration — ABI service now integrated directly into the Typegen CLI
  • Topic filtering — Topic filtering support added for Factory contracts and evmDecoder
  • EVM decoder enhancements — Contract address filtering, ZSTD support, factory topic filtering in Pipes SDK
  • Squid SDK improvements — Use Etherscan proxy for typegen CLI, missing export for InstructionRecord, handle query exceeds max results error

Network

  • Portal Pools contracts — Portal Pools smart contracts deployed to Arbitrum mainnet (PortalRegistry, PortalPoolFactory, FeeRouterModule)
  • Etherlink migration — Etherlink archives migrated from Ghostnet to Shadownet

New Chains & Hotblocks

  • megaETH Testnet added to v2 archives and Portal
  • MegaETH Mainnet network page added to documentation
  • Hotblocks enabled for Monad, Optimism Mainnet, and Arbitrum Sepolia
January 19, 2026
NetworkPortalFeature

Portal Pools Whitelist Launch

Portal Pools went live with the first whitelist-only release — smart contracts deployed on Arbitrum mainnet, whitelisted community members staking SQD in exchange for USDT rewards. The first pool was oversubscribed within 3 days.

Portal & Network

  • ZSTD ~30% faster — Switching from gzip to zstd compression sped up Portal responses by ~30% in benchmarks
  • Solana query relationstransactionTokenBalances and transactionBalances flags added to Solana queries, retrieving all balance updates for parent transactions
  • Network monitoring tool — ZK-proof based network monitoring tool launched for real-time network health tracking
December 2025
NetworkPortalSDKImprovementNew chain

Network & Performance

  • Noise protocol — Added to network communication; obfuscates query patterns and prevents stream inspection
  • Gzip stream joining — New gzip stream joining for improved Portal response performance
  • Portal 503 errors — Fixed public portal 503 errors
  • Sonic Testnet — Dataset updated
  • Monad Mainnet — Added to Portal

SDK Updates

  • TypeORM refactorcreateDataSource renamed to initializeDataSource
  • Portal client — Data ingestion and query schemas refactored
  • Typegen cleanup — Removed solana-stream dependency from typegen
November 2025
DocsPortalNetworkSDKFeatureNew chain
New Documentation Site

New docs site

We heard you — our docs were hard to navigate. The new docs at beta.docs.sqd.dev are organized around what you’re trying to do. Want to pull raw blockchain data? Start with Portal. Building an indexer? Go straight to the SDK that matches your stack. We also added full documentation for the Pipes SDK.
  • Network explorer — Browse and filter all 100+ supported networks by VM type with real-time status. Plasma, Monad, HyperEVM, and MegaETH added.
  • Interactive API playground — Test Portal queries directly in the docs without switching to your terminal.
The site is currently in beta while we review and fill in missing content. We plan to leave beta in H1 2026.

Portal Performance & Features

  • Portal consolidation — Portal trimmed to 11 datasets, all with real-time data: arbitrum-one, avalanche-mainnet, base-mainnet, binance-mainnet, ethereum-mainnet, hyperliquid-mainnet, optimism-mainnet, polygon-mainnet, solana-devnet, solana-mainnet, zora-mainnet
  • Zstd compression — Portal now supports zstd compression (requires workers ≥2.6.0-rc1)
  • Performance improvement — Public portal now delivers ≥8 MB/s of compressed data
  • Rate limiting visibility — Users can now see when Portal bandwidth is being throttled
  • head-number header — Portal now returns head-number header showing latest available block
  • first_block metadata — Metadata now includes first_block when no historical data is available
  • /finalized-stream fix — Fixed /finalized-stream to properly stream only finalized blocks

Network App

  • Network App Refresh — Refreshed dashboard design with two new tabs: Workers and Analytics
  • Worker filtering — Worker filtering (instead of sorting 2,500+ rows)
  • Analytics section — Analytics section with network health, usage, and economics

SDK

  • Pipes SDK — Hyperliquid fills integration, Postgres state management, Drizzle ORM support, factory address handling
  • ETHGlobal templates — Pipes SDK templates created for ETHGlobal hackathon
  • Squid SDK improvements — Etherscan v2 API support in typegen, Solana ESM-compatible typegen import paths, Substrate SystemOrigin definition updates, HTTP client 521/522/523 errors now retriable

New Chains

October 2025
PortalCloudSDKFeatureNew chain
Public Portal GA

Public Portal GA

The public portal is now generally available. What started as an internal alpha a year ago is now the default way to access blockchain data through SQD — a decentralized network of workers serving 100+ datasets with real-time and historical data. The feature-complete portal includes finalized block queries, rate limiting, per-request tracing, and zstd compression.

Portal & Cloud

  • Cloud billing upgrade — Billing backend upgraded with credits and discounts per organization

Pipes SDK

  • Pipes SDK documentation — Learn-by-example documentation published for Pipes SDK (repo)
  • Solana instruction decoder — Added Solana instruction decoder with improved rollback chain logic
  • Composite transformer — Composite transformer with duplicate detection
  • HTTP client rework — HTTP client reworked with improved performance and reliability
  • ClickHouse improvements — Enhanced ClickHouse config and integration
  • Fork handling — Improved fork handling capabilities
  • Finalized block queries — PortalClient now supports querying finalized blocks
  • Block hash in decoded events — Decoded events now include block hash information
  • DecodedEvent factory — Added factory details for DecodedEvent

Squid SDK

  • Portal client fixes — Token balance schema validation fix, promise chaining memory leak fix
  • Solana improvements — Extend programs missing invoke log, preserve leading _ in generated names

New Chains & Hotblocks

  • Hedera EVM added to Portal
  • Plasma Testnet and Mainnet added
  • Asset Hub Paseo added to v2 and Portal
  • Solana Devnet hotblocks enabled
  • Binance Mainnet hotblocks enabled
September 2025
SDKCloudPortalFeature

SDK Features

  • Hasura supportHasura integration released; dedicated Hasura addon for Cloud squids with configuration tool, example repo, and documentation; OpenReader docs consolidated
  • Network sharding — Network protocol now supports sharding for improved scalability
  • Squid generator beta — New squid generator released in beta; generate squids from YAML configuration
  • Solana Devnetsolana-devnet available from block 360,000,000
  • X-Sqd-Data-Source header — Portal responses now include header indicating whether data came from live, hotblocks, or archive
  • Pipes SDK foundation — Solana RPC latency watcher, metrics server, dashboard components, profiler

Cloud Improvements

  • RPC billing fix — Fixed RPC billing overcharging issue
  • Secrets sorting — Secrets page now supports sorting by name
  • Invoice downloads — Users can now download invoices per month in the Billing section (admin only)

SDK Improvements

  • Portal client: discriminator field for Solana query, fork error structure fix
  • Substrate: handle EIP-7702 transactions
August 2025
PortalNetworkSDKFeature
Full Solana History

Full Solana History on Portal

Solana’s complete mainnet history is now accessible through Portal — every block, every transaction, from genesis. Combined with Solana Mainnet hotblocks going live the same month, Portal now covers the full Solana timeline from historical to real-time in a single solana-mainnet dataset.

Portal & Network

  • Polygon Mainnet hotblocks enabled
  • Zora Mainnetzora-mainnet real-time dataset ready, full data from block 0
  • Rewards Claiming App — App for claiming missing SQD rewards launched at rewards.sqd.ai
  • Starknet RPC ingest — Added Starknet RPC data ingestion support

SDK

  • @subsquid/portal-client — New Portal client package with native Portal integration, response validation, and casting
  • Solana Spray client — Solana Spray client introduced for parallel RPC access
July 2025
PortalSDKNetworkImprovement

Portal & Network

  • 429 rate limiting — Portal now returns HTTP 429 status when worker CU pool is exhausted; rate limit errors treated as retriable
  • Hotblocks status — Solana hotblocks working in mainnet; EVM hotblocks enabled in testnet, disabled in mainnet (receipts being added)

SDK

  • Irys integration — Publish datasets to Irys network
  • Solana normalization — Backport new block normalization
June 2025
PortalCloudNetworkFeature

Portal Features

  • EVM Hotblocks — Hotblocks for ethereum-mainnet and base-mainnet added to public portal
  • Solana datasets unified — Solana datasets reunited into single solana-mainnet (historical + hotblocks)
  • EVM hotblocks request handling — Improved request handling for frequently-accessed blocks
  • Base hotblocks testing — Base chain hotblocks available for testing (10,000 last blocks)

Cloud & Network

  • RPC limit raised — RPC requests spending limit raised from 200to200 to 1,000
  • Hyperliquid onboardedHyperliquid dataset added to the decentralized network

SDK

  • Squid SDK — Fix name collision in debug frame schema builder
May 2025
PortalNetworkImprovement

Portal & Network

  • Network scheduling — New scheduling algorithm deployed to mainnet
  • Request-ID tracing — Per-request identification added to Portal queries for improved debugging and tracing
April 2025
SDKNetworkImprovement

SDK & Network

  • MegaETH Testnet docs — MegaETH Testnet documentation page added
  • svmBNB & Eclipse Testnet — svmBNB Mainnet and Testnet datasets added to Portal testnet; Eclipse Testnet dataset added (starting from block 86,800,000)
March 25, 2025
PortalNetworkSDKFeature
Portal Open Beta & SDK 1.1

Portal Open Beta

Portal is now open to everyone. After three months of closed beta with select Cloud customers, we removed the gates — any developer can now pull blockchain data through our decentralized network of workers. No waitlist, no approval process.For teams that want full control, Portal is also available as a self-hosted package. Deploy it on your own infrastructure with docker compose and monitor everything through the bundled Grafana dashboards.

Migration & Sunset

  • Cloud migration path — Existing Cloud squids can switch from centralized v2 archives to Portal-powered data sources with minimal changes (EVM/Substrate migration, Solana migration)
  • Planned sunset of v2 archives — With Portal now publicly available, we announced the planned deprecation of centralized v2 archives

SDK 1.1 Shipped

SDK 1.1 is the companion release — it adds native Portal and hotblocks support without breaking existing APIs. If you have a squid running on v2 archives, migration is a config change, not a rewrite.

Soldexer Brand

  • Solana sub-brand — Solana-focused sub-brand launched with separate landing page and docs
March 24, 2025
CloudNetworkFeatureNew chain

Cloud & Network

  • RPC proxyCloud RPC proxy now supports Berachain, Sonic, Unichain, and Unichain Sepolia
  • Starknet Sepolia — Starknet Sepolia added
  • Hyperliquid L1 MainnetHyperliquid L1 Mainnet data available
  • Ink Mainnet traces — Ink Mainnet now supports traces

New Chains

  • Soneium Mainnet and Soneium Minato Testnet added
  • Poseidon Testnet added
  • Ink Sepolia and Asset Hub Westend Next added to v2 archives
  • Plume network names and chain IDs swapped
February 2025
NetworkSDKFeature

Network Additions

  • Unichain Mainnet — Unichain Mainnet added to v2 archives
  • Portal API specification — Public Portal API specification published
  • Berachain Mainnet — Berachain Mainnet, Monad Testnet, MemeCore Mainnet, and Asset Hub Westend added to v2 archives
  • Combined data client — Combine multiple data streams into one unified client
  • Ozean & Hyperliquid Testnets — Ozean Testnet and Hyperliquid Testnet added to v2 archives
  • Lukso Mainnet — Lukso Mainnet added to v2 archives
  • Ink Mainnet, BOB Sepolia, Camp Network Testnet added to v2 archives
  • Bittensor EVM — mainnet and testnet added with starting blocks
  • Abstract Mainnet & Testnet — Abstract Mainnet and Testnet added to v2 archives
  • Soon Mainnet — Soon Mainnet (Solana-based) added to v2 archives
December 2024
PortalFeature
Portal Closed Beta

Portal Closed Beta

This is where Portal started. After months of internal development, we shipped the first version of our decentralized data gateway to a closed group of Cloud customers. The goal: prove that a decentralized network of workers could serve production blockchain data as reliably as our centralized archives.

Launch Features

  • Portal web console — A new UI for browsing datasets, testing queries, and monitoring Portal usage
  • Portal-powered Cloud squids — Existing Cloud squids could now run on Portal instead of centralized archives, with no code changes required
  • **100migrationcreditEarlymigratorsreceiveda100 migration credit** — Early migrators received a 100 credit to incentivize switching from v2 archives to Portal
  • Substrate supportSubstrate chain data added to Portal alongside EVM and Solana
  • New SQD.ai website — Redesigned company website launched at sqd.dev
October 2024
CloudSDKFeatureNew chain
Cloud Deployments 2.0

Cloud Deployments 2.0

Cloud Deployments got a major overhaul. The old model — one squid, one version, one endpoint — didn’t scale for teams running multiple environments or doing zero-downtime upgrades. Deployments 2.0 introduces slots (isolated execution environments) and tags (movable pointers like production or staging) so you can deploy, test, and promote without touching your live endpoint. (release notes)

Cloud & SDK Updates

  • Squid CLI 3.0.0 — CLI overhauled to match: commands renamed for clarity (rmremove, lslist), new deployment flow with tagging, confirmation prompts for destructive actions
  • Tron support — All Tron-related npm packages published, with TRC-20 transfer tracking example
  • Network worker v1.1.1Network worker v1.1.1 released on mainnet
  • L1 fee fields — EVM processor now supports L1 fee fields on Optimism for financial reporting

New Chains

  • Mode Mainnet and Degen Chain added
  • Canto Testnet added
  • Aleph Zero EVM, Berachain bArtio Testnet, StratoVM Sepolia, Arthera Mainnet added
  • B3 network added
July 2024
SDKCloudFeatureNew chain

SDK & Cloud Features

  • Polygon traces — Polygon Mainnet traces support went live
  • SDK examples — New curated examples page published in docs
  • Fuel SDK 1.1.0 — Fuel data packages updated: block consistency validation with retry, optional block transactions
  • Multiple API tokens — Cloud API now supports multiple API tokens per account
  • ink! v5 support — ink! v5 smart contracts now supported in Substrate SDK

New Chains

  • NeoX Testnet, B3 Sepolia, Plume Testnet, Galxe Gravity (EVM), Gemini 3h, Bittensor Testnet (Substrate) added; Watr network removed
  • 0g Testnet added
  • Acurast Canary (Substrate) added
  • Zora Sepolia, Kyoto Testnet, Dogechain Testnet, Etherlink Mainnet, BOB Mainnet added
  • Taiko Mainnet (EVM) and Eclipse Testnet (Solana, beta) added