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
Portal & Data Features
- Dynamic metadata — Portal now reads and exposes dataset metadata dynamically instead of hardcoded mapping
/resolve-timestampendpoint — 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 prompts —
sqdCLI 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)
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 schemas — EVM and Solana OpenAPI schemas exposed in documentation
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-numberheader — Portal now supportsx-sqd-head-numberheader 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, handlequery exceeds max resultserror
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
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 relations —
transactionTokenBalancesandtransactionBalancesflags 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
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 refactor —
createDataSourcerenamed toinitializeDataSource - Portal client — Data ingestion and query schemas refactored
- Typegen cleanup — Removed
solana-streamdependency from typegen
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.
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-numberheader — Portal now returnshead-numberheader showing latest available blockfirst_blockmetadata — Metadata now includesfirst_blockwhen no historical data is available/finalized-streamfix — Fixed/finalized-streamto 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
SystemOrigindefinition updates, HTTP client 521/522/523 errors now retriable
New Chains
- Hyperliquid EVM Mainnet added to Portal
- Beam Mainnet added to v2 and Portal
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
SDK Features
- Hasura support — Hasura 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 Devnet —
solana-devnetavailable from block 360,000,000 X-Sqd-Data-Sourceheader — 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:
discriminatorfield for Solana query, fork error structure fix - Substrate: handle EIP-7702 transactions
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 singlesolana-mainnet dataset.Portal & Network
- Polygon Mainnet hotblocks enabled
- Zora Mainnet —
zora-mainnetreal-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
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
Portal Features
- EVM Hotblocks — Hotblocks for
ethereum-mainnetandbase-mainnetadded 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 1,000
- Hyperliquid onboarded — Hyperliquid dataset added to the decentralized network
SDK
- Squid SDK — Fix name collision in debug frame schema builder
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
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)
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
Cloud & Network
- RPC proxy — Cloud RPC proxy now supports Berachain, Sonic, Unichain, and Unichain Sepolia
- Starknet Sepolia — Starknet Sepolia added
- Hyperliquid L1 Mainnet — Hyperliquid 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
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
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
- **100 credit to incentivize switching from v2 archives to Portal
- Substrate support — Substrate chain data added to Portal alongside EVM and Solana
- New SQD.ai website — Redesigned company website launched at sqd.dev
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 likeproduction 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 (
rm→remove,ls→list), 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 v1.1.1 — Network 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
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

