The value of crypto at its core, is that everything settles on an unbiased, third party ledger. This enables the two parties engaging in a transaction to have an additional ledger to reconcile against, otherwise known as triple entry accounting.
Though this sounds great in theory, in practice, making sense of on chain data is not an easy task. From connecting to the node for the raw transaction data, to decoding the events to then mapping the events to business logic just to prepare for the analysis, the setup often precludes the value of the third ledger in the first place.
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