Speedrun The Chain With Covalent’s New Ultra-Fast Data Co-Processor
High-performance blockchains now deliver unprecedented throughput. Networks like MegaETH, Monad, Sonic, Arbitrum Nitro, and now Base process over 50,000 transactions per second and generate more than 4 billion transactions daily. This shift enables sub-second trading, gaming, and agent-based coordination at global scale—but only at the consensus layer. Useable data hasn’t kept up…
Until now.
With Covalent’s new Ultra-Fast Data Co-Processor developers can speed-run the chain bypassing the latency crisis.
Before today, what reached developers and agents from these chains was unreadable, a firehose of raw execution logs arriving milliseconds after transaction inclusion but without any structure, context, or state clarity. The result, though fast, was a broken loop between chain execution and agent response—a latency crisis limiting what’s possible onchain.
Covalent’s Sub-Second Data Co-Processor is a direct response to this. It is the first sub-second data system for high-throughput blockchains designed to emit structured, labeled, semantically enriched streams immediately after execution. It turns raw throughput into usable state—available to agents, dApps, and downstream systems in under a second.
This system is not an indexer and not a node. It physically sits close to execution environments and transforms live bytecode into labeled entities, decoded transactions, and finalized or speculative state views. It delivers machine-native payloads like GraphQL, eliminating the need for post-hoc re-parsing or inference. The result is low-latency, verifiable data with deterministic provenance—ready for autonomous systems to reason over, act on, and trust.
Technically, the Co-Processor is modular and chain-agnostic. It integrates with high-throughput L1s, L2s, and DA layers. It handles reorgs, supports speculative and finalized state models, and offers application-configurable tradeoffs between latency and confirmation depth. It is currently being deployed across Sonic and Base, to start, with expansion to other chains in active development.
For researchers, this opens new domains in verifiable stream computation, low-latency distributed systems, and AI-agent infrastructure. For everyone else, it is a position at the base of a new stack—where the convergence of AI, crypto, and machine trust plays out in real time, and where protocol-level demand compounds every time a chain accelerates.
Execution is already fast. Now, for the first time, onchain state is ultra-fast, structured, and verifiable too. The shift is here. Covalent is shipping the future.
Read the docs here
