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noves

ETH Denver was a mindset shift for me. I was wrong about /noves and our company's value prop.

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1) "Blockchain data does suck."

Dozens of people said this to me, all day, every day.

DApp developers, accountants and finance professionals, builders at top chains and protocols, wallets and more... all struggle with onchain data.

2) Accountants vs. Platforms

Accountants told me, "We can't get the data we need using XYZ platform, do you support XYZ chains?"

vs.

Product people at the accounting platforms (mostly) told me, "We already have the data we need for those chains."

MASSIVE disconnect here.

3) Wallets suck at tx simulation (Bybit Hack)

Out of curiosity, our co-founder Juan ran the Bybit hack tx through our Noves simulator and detected the hack.

100% preventable.

Wallets I spoke with are still "in progress" with more advanced tx simulation.

* sigh *

4) Solana data is a real pain

"Do you support Solana?"
"Do you support Solana?"
"Do you support Solana?"

I always knew this was a pain, but man, people sounded like addicts asking for Solana stuff.

I used to say Noves was "human-readable" data. And, sure, that's true. But it's also limited, and boring.

We go far beyond "human-readable". I was focused on the wrong thing. Feels like 2025 is a good time to shift the narrative. For Noves, for our protocol, for everything.

"Blockchain Data Sucks"

This isn't a value prop, obviously. But it is the problem we're solving. Blockchain data sucks. We're just trying to make it suck less.

5) Noves protocol... actually made sense

"Aggregated Data Layer for Blockchain"
"It's basically 1inch or Odos for data."

People got it right away, it made sense, and even said "that's actually really cool".