KYVE's 2024: A Year of Heads-Down Building To Fuel Major Expansion

“2024 was a heads-down year for KYVE, focused on building, refining, and laying the groundwork for what’s to come. With everything we’ve accomplished, we’re now ready to go all out in 2025 and take KYVE’s impact to the next level.” – Fabian Riewe, Founder of KYVE.

Looking back at 2024, KYVE took its mission to the next level, expanding its capabilities and spreading data support across ecosystems worldwide. From groundbreaking innovations to growing strategic partnerships, KYVE solidified its role as a leader in blockchain infrastructure.

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This year’s achievements set the stage for an even stronger 2025, where KYVE’s impact on the data space will reach new heights... Read on to explore the milestones that defined KYVE in 2024 and get ready for what’s ahead!

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Building Up To KYVE’s Expansion Era‍

This year, KYVE released the v1.5 upgrade, which enabled multi-coin funding on the protocol. From the start, the center of KYVE’s protocol economics was $KYVE. Now, integrations can be funded in any token, and by delegating $KYVE, users can receive both $KYVE and other tokens in return for securing the network.

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Building on this, KYVE introduced the Public Goods Funding (PGF) initiative, in which KYVE runs a public good node on a partner chain, leveraging the generated rewards from that node to fund that chain’s integration on KYVE.

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Thanks to all this, KYVE is now entering an exciting new phase, fueling seamless data support for new ecosystems and their communities while expanding KYVE’s own network capabilities. These efforts have not only brought exciting additions to the protocol economics but also a huge opportunity for closer partner collaborations and end-user opportunities.

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Want more details?

- Read the official KYVE blog;

- See what Business Insider had to say about this;

- Listen in on KYVE’s feature in Lava Network’s partner X Space series.

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Making Historical Data A Public Good

KYVE has archived and validated all of the following chains’ full blockchain data history, including blocks, block results, and state-sync snapshots:

- Cosmos Hub

- Osmosis

- Cronos

- Archway

- Axelar

- Celestia

- Noble blocks

- dYdX

- SOURCE Protocol

- Andromeda

- Ethereum (only blobs on Kaon)

- Lava Network (on Kaon)

- ZetaChain (on Kaon)

- KYVE & Kaon (on Kaon)

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This ensures a permanent, reliable backup of all these chains, making any piece of data easily accessible via KYVE’s streamlined data tooling or REST-API. Overall, enabling developers and nodes to avoid costly and slow archival nodes or other unreliable resources.

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More & More Strategic Partnerships

KYVE’s long-standing partnerships have sparked new community collaborations, such as dev workshops with dYdX and X Spaces with partners like Andromeda and Lava.

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On top of this, KYVE has expanded its solutions to new chains and brought forward collaborations with other ecosystems:

ZetaChain partnered with KYVE for early mainnet launch support, providing its ecosystem with trustless Zeta Chain data as soon as it went live. Via this integration, ZetaChain validators can KYVE’s tool KSYNC to easily sync and join the network. KYVE hosted a dev workshop for their community to provide further support.

Noble partnered with KYVE to safeguard its historical data, enabling any integrator of Noble assets to easily index historical Noble data in a reliable, fast, and low-resource way.

Lava Partners with KYVE, leveraging each protocol’s strengths, this collaboration is dedicated to creating a seamless and enriched data experience for all data users. More specifically, coming together to further streamline and enhance the node runner experience.

“We’re delighted to support KYVE, a project with similar aspirations as Lava — to make blockchains accessible and easy to build on. Node operators are fundamental to web3 — they can now find opportunities in both KYVE and Lava ecosystems. — Yair Cleper, Co-Founder at Lava Network.

KYVE aims to bring data permanence to Rollchains. With Celestia underneath, every Cosmos chain that integrates the Rollchains module will also off-board all of its historical data in a streamlined, decentralized way onto Arweave via KYVE, enabling exceptional scalability.

KYVE and EthStorage have partnered to further enhance the Ethereum ecosystem data experience. By providing EthStorage as a storage provider option for data from EVM blockchains and dApps, KYVE will expand its tooling customizability and support more builders.

KYVE and SubQuery have partnered to significantly improve the Web3 developer and validator data experience. SubQuery leverages the KYVE protocol to streamline and expedite access to historical on-chain data of supported blockchains, eliminating the cumbersome task of hunting down non-pruned or archived RPC providers for SubQuery and its community.

Warden Protocol has partnered with KYVE, aiming to leverage the KYVE protocol and tooling to ensure streamlined historical data access for its Buenavista testnet ecosystem and beyond.

KYVE and SOURCE have partnered up to merge reliable data with enterprise needs. This will leverage KYVE’s streamlined data solutions to support its historical chain data and growing ecosystem of enterprise-grade Web3 solutions.

KYVE launched a strategic partnership with Andromeda. With this integration collaboration and other data-focused initiatives, KYVE looks forward to supporting Andromeda in making Web3 easier, better, and faster.
Ctrl Wallet (previously known as XDEFI) has been integrated with KYVE’s web app, expanding the accessibility of KYVE’s ecosystem to XDEFI's 200k+ users and further streamlining our web app's user experience.

Throughout 2024, KYVE and its network consistently proved to be a highly active chain and protocol, averaging 200,000 transactions per day and securing its place as one of the most active chains in the Cosmos ecosystem. As a result, over 7 TB of compressed, diverse historical blockchain data became permanently and reliably accessible to all.

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This year was definitely a period of growth and enhancement for KYVE, with new upgrades, tooling, and unique multi-network collaborations. Let’s get into the main tech highlights…

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Solving Today’s Issues: Saving Lost Data

With the implementation of EIP-4844, Ethereum and its Layer 2s have begun pruning historical data, making it essential to use a decentralized solution like KYVE to permanently store and retrieve this data before it all starts getting deleted or relying on centralized, costly resources.

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KYVE has also taken on the role of preserving Celestia’s historical data, advancing scalability and reliable historical data for all amidst Celestia also pruning its historical data. This is just the first step, with KYVE aiming to not only support Celestia, but all rollups built on top. Read further into this modular support case study.

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Protocol enhancements: Upgraded Tools & Beta Testing

Certain updates have been made throughout the year, starting with Supervysor v2, to ensure a smooth and positive validator experience on the KYVE protocol.

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KYVE’s tool Supervysor ensures validators' nodes are in sync with a chain’s data pool and eliminates any data that's already been archived to lower storage needs, drastically cutting down on the expenses tied to validator operations. V2 introduced state pruning, fully optimizing the pruning mechanism as a whole and ensuring that protocol validators don’t have to deal with any extra data.

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Plus, from November 1st to the 14th, dedicated KYVE beta testers tested integrating Ar.io’s Turbo integration on the KYVE protocol. The goal was to simplify node operations and enhance the data storage experience for protocol validators. This phase was deemed a success, and Turbo has now been officially integrated on mainnet as the new storage provider.
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“What is really amazing is that you spend less than a minute to fund the storage wallet in comparison to AR. Overall, it takes about 15 minutes.” – Liver, node runner on KYVE about the Beta Test on Turbo.

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Easy Data Access for Devs: Trustless API

It’s known across the industry that it’s extremely difficult and resource-intensive to source reliable historical data, until now! Thanks to KYVE’s trustless API. This tool enables all to leverage KYVE trustless data, merkle roots for integrity, minimize data loads, and ensure lightning-speed access, all via one unique tool. Already supporting Celestia, Ethereum, and Osmosis. Try it out yourself!

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Easy Data Access for Nodes: KSYNC

KSYNC has also seen advancements, acquiring more daily users and supporting more chain datasets made trustless by KYVE. It was recently calculated that KSYNC has so far saved node operators 66 days of chain syncing time.

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To further spread awareness and understanding of the tool, KYVE published an in-depth KSYNC article, as well as an X Space with the Osmosis Support Team, Lavender Five, and Crosnest to chat about how KYVE and KSYNC significantly impact their daily operations. Key takeaways:
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“It’s becoming more of an issue with these chains becoming more mature. […] You just can’t find that data anywhere [...] From the sounds of it, I can cover anything I couldn’t have done before by using KYVE and its tools.” – Max Power, Contributor to Osmosis Support Labs

“Whenever a client of ours needs an archival node or a specific period of data, it’s a lot easier to refer them to KYVE […] Running an archival node, you cannot have a window in the past, you need it to be live and running. But using KYVE, you can literally have that window in the past without any issues.” – Ertemann, Chief of Staff at Lavender Five.

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Milestones Made Together:

With KYVE focused on providing a decentralized-driven ecosystem, community is at the heart of it all. This year, the KYVE community has gone all out in support of KYVE’s advancements, helping test new features, providing insightful feedback, and overall helping spread the word about KYVE’s importance in the Web3 space.

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- KYVE continues to be one of the most active Cosmos chains;

- KYVE Won Hackernoon’s Startup Of The Year Award thanks to votes from the community;

- KYVE’s CoinMarketCap Community Page reached 4.5k followers;

- The Slash Indemnification Program was launched to support protocol validators and delegators from unnecessary slashes and drive needed activity on KYVE’s testnet Kaon;

- KYVE’s Learnweb3 courses got over 1k students;

- KYVE grew community over on the Web3 social channel Farcaster;

- The KYVE Grants Program: Phase 0 launched in accordance with the KYVE DAO and Foundation on KYVE’s commonwealth governance forum. After over 100 days live, Phase 0 of the KYVE Grants Program was closed, resulting in 17,000 USDC and 50,000 in $KYVE total grants given out. This initial phase has demonstrated the value of community-driven innovation and really set the stage for the KYVE Grants Program as a whole.

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KYVE Going Global: 2024’s In-Person Events

- KYVE’s Founder Fabian Riewe took on this year’s EthDenver, participating in a panel on L1s vs. Appchains at AppChain Day, two insightful panels at ATOMDenver², as well as a panel on data at Open Data Day. Not to mention making strong connections at the main conference and other side events;

- At Berlin Blockchain Week, KYVE co-hosted a side event with partner Finoa, focused on providing high-level networking opportunities;

- EthCC Brussels was a big one, with over 100 side events, a few co-hosted by KYVE, this brought on a lot of great opportunities for further collaboration and strategic partnerships;

- At Token2049 Singapore, KYVE, Kronos Research, dYdX, and Worldcoin came together to host DeFi Crunch and Lunch. KYVE Grantee FourPillars also handed out research reports about KYVE at the main conference and other side events;

- KYVE partnered with WeaveVM for their first-ever hackathon, leveraging KYVE’s tool Trustless API to build data-intensive dApps;

- Finally, Devcon Bangkok, with the Injective Summit, IOSG Ventures’ OFR, and other side events, as well as KYVE’s workshop at the Staking Rewards’ Summit and partnering for Avail’s Unification Cup.
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‍Hitting the Ground Running‍

This year has been a transformative journey for KYVE, solidifying the foundation for an optimized user experience and a thriving network. These advancements have positioned KYVE to take on an even greater role in empowering ecosystems with innovative data management solutions.

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What’s next? The upcoming merge of KYVE’s staking economics across the Consensus and Protocol layers marks a pivotal step forward. Officially approved through governance in November 2024 (Proposal 43), this merge will propel KYVE to new heights—scaling its impact across more ecosystems and even stepping into Web2.

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-> Ready to be part of this journey? Join KYVE today to help shape the future of Web3!

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More About KYVE

KYVE is the leading decentralized data hub, making blockchain data a trustless public good by streamlining historical data storage, validation, and accessibility for scaling blockchains and their ecosystems.

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KYVE is one of the most supported blockchains in the space, backed by Arweave, Ava Labs, Solana Foundation, Interchain Foundation, Moonbeam, TheGraph, Parity Technologies, Composable Finance, Zilliqa, Mina Foundation, Aurora, and NEAR Foundation. As well as VCs such as Hypersphere Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Mechanism Capital, CMS Holdings, IOSG Ventures, and others.

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