The response to today's free plan announcement has been humbling.
Hundreds of messages thanking us for something we are taking away. That does not happen unless people believe in what you have been building.
8 years. Countless onchain data providers have come and gone.
@Dune is still here, and still the industry standard.
We started with individuals and retail. Then crypto companies. Then businesses. Now institutions. Visa, S&P, UBS, FINRA, Bloomberg, the IMF. 1,000+ industry leaders, 20,000+ teams, 130+ chains parsed.
But the part I am most proud of is not on the customer list.
Dune educated a generation of onchain analysts. Most of the best data people in this industry wrote their first query on Dune. Today they are at Stripe, Visa, Franklin Templeton, Solana.
That community is the reason the standard exists.
New era. Same mission. Make Onchain Finance Observable.
The Dune team has provided millions of queries to the community for years for free, something no other platform has done. I honestly don't think we would be at the level of transparency we are in the space today without their work, many of the top data platforms you see today (blockworks, artemis, allium, etc) were bootstrapped off of their public queries/tables and the wizard community. They're just a very humble team so they won't publicly take credit for any of that.
I truly respect the team for continuing to make really hard decisions while shipping a better product. And its still insane value on the paid plans, I guarantee you will not get access to this quality of data and query engine for less than $500 on any other provider out there (will be in the multiple thousands of dollars) 😁
A lot of the community has been placed into roles at institutions like Stripe, Fidelity, S&P, etc too which have the money to pay - so the subsidies are mostly unnecessary now.
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