Google Cloud Taps SQD for Blockchain Analytics in BigQuery

Google Cloud has integrated blockchain analytics into its BigQuery platform, thanks to a partnership with Zug-based Web3 infrastructure company SQD. The deal signals that enterprise-grade on-chain data has moved from being a niche developer tool to something big cloud platforms are willing to build products around.

SQD supplies the indexing and data pipelines powering Google Cloud's Blockchain Analytics through its enterprise arm SQD 360, which validates every blockchain block with six cryptographic checks before delivering the data. The company streams real-time data from more than 225 blockchain networks through a single API, giving applications and institutions a single point of access to verifiable on-chain activity.

The partnership aims to make blockchain analytics usable at enterprise scale by providing complete, accurate, provable, and openly accessible blockchain data. SQD CEO Wanja Oberhof tied the announcement to a broader philosophy about how blockchain data should work, saying 'blockchain data should be complete, accurate, and provably correct, and most importantly of all, openly accessible.'