Today, let’s skip the jargon of 'decentralized data infrastructure'; it’s too convoluted! Plus, without any traffic, let’s directly discuss features that ordinary users can feel. For instance, if you want to check NFT transactions on Ethereum or DeFi yields on Solana, don’t you need to open multiple platforms, sift through data for ages, and still not find a match? It’s either slow data retrieval or concerns about data being tampered with; this is the current 'data headache' in Web3. What Chainbase does is to clarify these 'data messes' and also help you save costs and earn profits through technology.
You can think of various public chains in Web3 (like Ethereum and Bitcoin) as independent 'markets', where each market's prices and stall information are not interconnected. In the past, if you wanted to compare the price of cabbage in 10 markets, you had to go to 10 different places, which was exhausting and time-consuming. Chainbase has built a 'data highway' that consolidates information from all these markets while ensuring the information is fast and accurate.
Its core technology has two aspects. First, 'two chains working together, fast and secure'. One chain specializes in 'speed', making data querying as easy as scrolling through TikTok, capable of processing 500,000 queries per second (10 times faster than before). If you check how much a certain NFT sold for yesterday, you’ll get results in 200 milliseconds; the other chain focuses on 'security', equivalent to putting a 'theft-proof lock' on the data. Tampering with data would cost hundreds of billions, and basically, no one dares to touch it. For example, if you are in DeFi and need to process tens of thousands of transaction data every second, using it ensures you won’t get stuck or worry about data manipulation.
Second, 'it comes with an AI assistant, so you don’t have to calculate data yourself'. It has an AI model called Theia; you don’t need to understand code, just state your requirements. For example, if you ask, 'Which NFT projects sold the best in Q2 2025? List the top 10 by transaction volume', it will generate a table for you in 3 seconds, clearly indicating each project’s holder distribution and how much it has increased recently. In the past, you’d have to gather data from 3 platforms and calculate using Excel, taking at least half an hour. Now, you can finish it in the time it takes to sip water.
Many people buy cryptocurrencies based on popularity, but they should look at 'what this coin can do'. C is Chainbase's 'ecosystem token', just like BNB is used for gas fees on the Binance chain. When you use API to query data or data tools on Chainbase, you need to pay a service fee, right? If you pay with C, you get a 10% discount! For example, if you’re a developer and need to spend $100,000 on API fees in a year, paying with C saves you $10,000, equivalent to earning an extra $10,000. Wouldn’t it be nice to use that money for some extra expenses?
Let’s talk about 'making the coin more valuable': this involves its 'burn mechanism', which can be simply understood as 'a portion of C spent is directly burned, reducing the supply in the market, which makes it more valuable due to scarcity'. It also features a dual burn mechanism, which is quite powerful.
First, every time you pay to query data, regardless of the payment method, 5% will be converted into C and burned. In Q2 2025, 1.2 million coins were burned, equivalent to 0.75% of the circulating supply, roughly meaning that for every 100 people, 0.75 person's money was burned.
Second, if you pay the API fee with C, 50% of this income is directly burned! For instance, if the platform earns $180 million a year from APIs, at the current price of C being $0.228, it can burn 4 million coins in a year.
If you are optimistic in the long run, you can 'stake' your C, which is equivalent to depositing money on the platform as a 'data node', helping the platform maintain data, earning about 12% in returns annually. For example, if you stake 10,000 C, the current price is about $2,280, and you can earn $300 a year, which is much better than putting it in a bank for a fixed term (about 2% annualized), plus you can vote on major platform decisions, like whether to add new features or how to allocate the ecological fund, essentially becoming a 'shareholder'.
In the future, 'the places where it can be used will increase'. Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud are collaborating with it to integrate on-chain data into traditional company systems. For example, real estate companies can put rental data on-chain, creating 'revenue rights NFTs' for sale. If you buy this NFT, you can receive rental income; game companies can issue exclusive tokens based on players’ on-chain behavior data, allowing you to earn tokens while playing games. In the future, data can directly translate into 'money', and Chainbase is the 'tool factory' that converts data into money, with C being the 'hard currency' in the factory. The more people use it, the more valuable C becomes.