By Niall on December 18, 2020
With millions of API calls and hundreds of participants + wallets created, One Million Wallets has come to an end and what a few weeks it has been! What began as an element of Gitcoin’s Grow Ethereum hackathon, One Million Wallets has developed into a greater, communal effort to develop the wallet space. We saw a huge variety of wallets being developed, some of which will no doubt inspire and be adopted by the community in the months to come.
Read more By Niall on December 9, 2020
VANCOUVER, December 9th, 2020 - Covalent is happy to announce a partnership with Terra Virtua, a truly immersive collectible platform across Mobile, AR and VR with unique social, gaming and creative experiences, enabled by blockchain.
Read more By Niall on December 7, 2020
While others begin to wind down as we approach the end of 2020, the year is far from over here at Covalent. We announced:
By Niall on December 4, 2020
VANCOUVER, December 4th, 2020 - Covalent is delighted to partner with OpenDeFi, a protocol that is bridging the gap between traditional and decentralized finance through the tokenization of real-world assets that are backed by an actual physical asset.
Read more By Niall on December 3, 2020
Following the first phase of the Ethereum 2.0 roll-out, Covalent is delighted to launch One Million Wallets - a campaign to celebrate the creativity, diversity and passion of the Ethereum developer community.
Read more By Niall on December 3, 2020
VANCOUVER, December 3rd, 2020 – Fresh off of their oversubscribed funding round of $3.1m from top-tier cryptocurrency investment firms, Covalent, a leading blockchain data analytics provider, is acquiring Byzantine Labs, a blockchain startup incubator and consultancy based in Vancouver, BC for an undisclosed amount. The Byzantine Labs team will be joining Covalent’s product and engineering departments. Click below for the full press release.
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By Harish on December 1, 2020
That’s the sheer potential of this young and relentless Vancouver-based big data startup which just raised $3.1M USD in funding in an oversubscribed round to build the future of blockchain data analytics.
Read more By Niall on November 30, 2020
For those that missed it, Covalent CEO Ganesh Swami and Reef CEO Denko Mancheski held a joint AMA to discuss the product integration and the future prospects of the partnership. Thanks for hosting us Reef!
Read more By Niall on November 24, 2020
Calling all Twitter Bards, Pen Assassins and Master Artists. Following a hugely successful number of weeks for Dungeons & Data, we are incredibly excited to announce the winners across these three categories. Everyone at Covalent was completely blown away by the level of creativity, work and detail that went into these submissions and for that, we are extremely grateful to have such an engaging and talented community. Also, thank you for your patience as we determined the winners. It was not easy.
Read more By Niall on November 19, 2020
VANCOUVER, November 19th, 2020 - Covalent is happy to announce a partnership with DeepDAO, a platform that collects and organizes a variety of quantitative and qualitative data about DAOs, presenting it to the public in the form of an interactive dashboard.
Read more By Niall on November 18, 2020
VANCOUVER, November 18th, 2020 - Covalent is delighted to be integrating with AllianceBlock, a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 that bridges traditional and decentralized finance and automates the process of converting any digital or crypto asset into a bankable product.
Read more By Niall on November 17, 2020
Can you scale the curve? As part of Covalent’s Dungeons & Data competition, we are excited to release to our community a comprehensive set of rich historical and granular CSV files for analysis. Dungeons & Data participants will have the opportunity to analyze, transform and visualize this dataset for prizes. The competition has various challenge levels, as they require different amounts of effort and expertise with data transformation and visualization. So depending on your available time and experience with data science, choose something fitting, start your data journey and most importantly, have fun!
There are many competitions available as part of Dungeons & Data – the data science portion is known as Data Barbarians.
Read more By Niall on November 13, 2020
VANCOUVER, November 13th, 2020 - Covalent is pleased to announce a technical partnership with Polkastarter, a DEX built for cross-chain token pools and auctions, enabling projects to raise capital on a decentralized, permissionless, and interoperable environment based on Polkadot. The killer feature of Polkastarter is the possibility of making cross-chain swaps, powered by the Polkadot ecosystem, which can provide higher throughput for faster and cheaper transactions while staying connected to the Ethereum Network and other blockchains for liquidity.
Read more By Niall on November 11, 2020
VANCOUVER, November 11th, 2020 - Covalent is delighted to announce a partnership with UpBots, an all-in-one platform that brings together the best crypto trading tools and strategies that are generally stand-alone services. It provides a 360° trading experience where users simply choose what best suits their profile.
Read more By Niall on November 9, 2020
Certainly an exciting month here at Covalent! Following our fundraising announcement, we announced a number of partnerships, collaborated with top-tier projects and launched the world’s biggest blockchain data competition which is still on-going. Not to mention, our team is continuing to expand.
Read more By Niall on November 5, 2020
VANCOUVER, November 4th, 2020 - Covalent is delighted to announce that we are partnering with Shyft Network, a blockchain public protocol that allows encrypted, attested and secure data transfers while enabling anyone to develop applications and infrastructure for global citizenship, trusted data and regulatory-compliant privacy.
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By Erik on October 30, 2020
That’s what I told Ganesh Swami when we met in a coffee shop back in August 2018 after hearing about Covalent for the first time.
“Maybe it isn’t, but it will be…” was Ganesh’s response.
Read more By Niall on October 29, 2020
VANCOUVER, October 29th, 2020 - Covalent, the leading blockchain data API, has integrated with CryptoSheets, a dynamic platform complete with powerful analytic tools for investors, analysts, developers, and students. From DeFi, derivatives, ICO, crypto funds, volatility, taxonomy, portfolio analysis, historical scenarios to on-chain metrics, smart contract logs and advanced crypto fundamentals data, Cryptosheets has the solution for users of all skill levels.
Read more By Niall on October 26, 2020
Can you tame the unicorn? As part of Covalent’s Dungeons & Data competition, we are excited to release to our community a comprehensive set of rich historical and granular CSV files for analysis. Dungeons & Data participants will have the opportunity to analyze, transform and visualize this dataset for prizes. The competition has various challenge levels, as they require different amounts of effort and expertise with data transformation and visualization. So depending on your available time and experience with data science, choose something fitting, start your data journey and most importantly, have fun!
There are many competitions available as part of Dungeons & Data – the data science portion is known as Data Barbarians.
Read more By Niall on October 23, 2020
VANCOUVER, October 23rd, 2020 - Covalent, the leading blockchain data API, is excited to announce a technical partnership with Reef, a cross-chain DeFi operating system built on Polkadot that provides users with universal access to liquidity existing on both centralized and decentralized exchanges.
Read more By Niall on October 21, 2020
VANCOUVER, October 21st, 2020 - Covalent, a leading blockchain querying service, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Frontier, a DeFi suite in which users can access their DeFi positions on various protocols. Through this partnership, Frontier is able to display granular asset data, giving its users an enhanced view of their positions.
Read more By Niall on October 20, 2020
Today we are excited to announce that the Puzzle part of our Dungeons & Data crypto-data challenge has been launched following the successful conclusion of the first Puzzle round.
The Puzzle Paladin challenge is a sequence of brainteasers, designed to help participants exercise their logic and puzzle-solving skills. And of course, have fun!
Read more By Niall on October 15, 2020
VANCOUVER, October 15th, 2020 - Covalent is excited to announce a technical partnership with ZeroSwap, a multi-chain protocol with liquidity mining, DeFi token offerings and DEX aggregation. This partnership comes in the wake of ZeroSwap understanding that the tooling required to understand what is going on with each transaction at the block level is still nascent. Fortunately, Covalent is positioned to bring data transparency and visibility to blockchain assets.
Read more By Niall on October 14, 2020
Covalent is the leading solution to the blockchain data provision market, but we can’t just hoard all that precious high-quality data ourselves, so we decided to host this crypto-data competition. Aside from plenty of activities that do not necessarily require data-related skillsets, but rather a sharp mind and/or a creative vision (such as our upcoming Quest or Art competition), we also host plenty of data science challenges, all enabled by Covalent’s powerful blockchain indexers. So if you are an up and coming blockchain data analyst (or just a hobbyist, we don’t discriminate), come check our challenges!
Read more By Niall on September 23, 2020
On September 22nd, we participated in our first AMA! Thank you to the Pramod Global Crypto Community for hosting us and bombarding us with questions. It was a lot of fun. Below, you can find the questions asked, along with our answers.
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By Pratik on March 2, 2020
TLDR; Today we want to address a topic in the crypto space that isn’t often discussed – building communities. Most Telegram communities are outright spammy, everyone has their Discord channels muted, and very few people really get Crypto Twitter. The channels to build your community are endless but identifying your true believers and where they live will make you stand out from the rest. We are happy to open-source our thinking around building communities with the goal that you can use this post as a guide to start building yours.
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