The Dune Blog

We’re extremely excited to announce a new set of bounties on OpenSea!

It has been a big few months for Dune. We’ve been building like crazy, and now we have an exciting announcement to make.

Today we are excited to announce that Dune Analytics, often referred to as just Dune, is now exactly that: Dune. Not only that. You can now find us at dune.com where we’ll make web3 data accessible for millions of people, and empower a new generation of data Wizards.

Many companies pour millions of dollars into their brand. The vibe of the company if you will. At the same time they will hand you some ugly ass T-shirt and instantly rug the vibe you had with that brand. It baffles me how many seemingly high end software companies will shamelessly distribute items that are lower quality than what you would expect from a fast food uniform.

We recently announced that we’ve raised a $69 420 000 Series B at a unicorn valuation. We started from the bottom in the fringe industry of crypto as two first-time founders when we created Dune out of Oslo, Norway in 2018. Now we’re here: a unicorn company at only 16 employees merely 3 years later. Here’s the story of our fundraising journey.

Solana has exploded onto the crypto scene since launching in early 2020. The high-speed, high-throughput, proof of stake chain is known for its lightning fast transactions, scalability & low fees.

Community is absolutely core to everything we do as a company.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $69 420 000 in a Series B round led by Coatue to realize our mission of making crypto data accessible. With this new funding we will educate, reward and empower a new generation of web3 data analysts aka Dune Wizards.

Binance Smart Chain has experienced massive growth over the past year thanks to fast, affordable transactions and a great user experience.

We’re excited to share that today we’re launching what we call the “Wizard Request Program” which basically is a way to make it easier for projects and individuals in the space to find the right analysts/wizards to work with.

Ethereum is scaling, and so is the number of datasets on Dune! We are happy to announce that Optimism Ethereum’s roll-up data is finally available on Dune, allowing anyone to build rich insights into OΞ’s growing ecosystem of dapps.

The hard knock life of Dune Analytics’ early days. Three years ago today 1st of September 2018 Mats and I founded Dune Analytics out of Oslo, Norway. It’s been a bit of a ride so I wanted to tell the story of the early days of Dune.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $8M in a Series A led by Union Square Ventures. Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round, together with existing investors Dragonfly Capital and Multicoin Capital.

Starting today you'll find crypto's most powerful data tool on a new planet.

Your life is short and you can only work on so many things within it. Furthermore, there are only a limited number of industries that are truly interesting at a certain point in time.

Today we are beyond excited to open a whole new chapter for on-chain data broadly and Dune Analytics specifically! Our team of four (we’re hiring!) started on a hugely ambitious project at the beginning of this year: to rebuild the Dune Analytics experience from the ground up. And today, less than a quarter later, you can enjoy a whole new Dune as v2 is now live!

It’s rapidly becoming clear that financial products built on open blockchains will change finance forever. The most obvious changes are the emergence of a new asset class, how you store those assets and how people and companies financially interact. Beyond that a whole range of less obvious but profound second order effects will follow. In this post I’ll explore the future of financial data; all the way from the data sources, to the data plumbers, quarterly reports and Wall Street analysts.

Have you ever seen a great query on Dune where you get a list of addresses, only to stop and wonder what’s behind these beautiful, random hexadecimal encoded strings? So have we.

This post goes over some basic examples of how to search and write basic queries as well as visualize them with graphs on Dune Analytics. No prior knowledge needed and the opportunities for exploration are limitless.

Ever since our inception in 2018 we’ve been a two man operation, building out Dune Analytics on a shoestring budget. Today we are excited to announce that we have raised a $2 million seed round led by Dragonfly Capital to scale up the Dune Analytics team and product. We also have top industry names like Multicoin Capital, Hashed, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group and more onboard (see the full list below).

Hello World! Today we are incredibly excited to officially announce and open up Dune Analytics to everyone. We've already had prominent customers such as Dharma, Argent, Gnosis, Binance, and others using Dune for a while. Today we are vastly expanding our impact as we are opening up the Dune Analytics toolbox for anyone to use free of charge.