Indexed AxelarBlockchain Data
Axelar is the Cosmos SDK routing network for cross-chain messages, where validators watch the connected chains, vote on what they observed, and threshold-sign the response.
How to query Axelar data with SonarX
Instant Data Share
Available todaySnowflake, and file dumps to your object storage
Query Axelar blockchain data with plain SQL from a live database inside your own Snowflake account, populated with the indexed chain dataset. There is no pipeline to build and no second copy to store. The same dataset ships as file dumps to your own object storage for lakes and warehouses that are not Snowflake.
- Full history as a Snowflake data-share
- File dumps to S3 or your own object storage
- Real-time delivery, current to chain tip — on request
Used for:
- Analytics teams already on Snowflake that want Axelar data beside their existing tables
- Fund accounting and treasury reporting that reconciles against a fixed history
- Cross-chain questions answered in one SQL statement instead of one query per chain
- Loading Axelar history into BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift or a Spark lake
- Replacing a self-hosted indexer and the engineering time that keeps it running
- Serving one governed dataset to several desks without copying it per team
Realtime API
Enabled on requestREST over the indexed dataset
Query indexed Axelar records over REST, reading the same dataset the share reads, with no warehouse in the path.
Used for:
- Applications that need one answer rather than a table scan
- Customer-facing screens where query latency is visible to a user
- Services that have no data warehouse and do not want to run one
- Prototyping against production data before committing to a share
- Backend checks that run per request instead of per batch
- Teams that want indexed Axelar data behind their own API layer
Axelar data: frequently asked questions
What is Axelar?
Axelar has produced blocks since its genesis in December 2021, and it is a Cosmos SDK chain whose job is to carry messages between other networks. Validators run a Tendermint BFT protocol under proof of stake, AXL is the native token, and accounts are bech32 strings with an axelar prefix. Nobody deploys an application here. Instead each validator watches the chains Axelar connects to, votes on the events it observed, and takes part in threshold signing, so the chain’s own business is agreeing what happened elsewhere and authorizing a response. Assets cross as locked-and-minted representations rather than as native issuance of the kind Noble does, and arbitrary calls cross the same way through general message passing, which lets a contract on one chain invoke a contract on another. Signing keys are rotated and re-shared as the validator set changes, and those rotations are recorded on chain too.
Axelar data on SonarX
SonarX indexes what the chain commits: blocks and transactions with their typed messages, the confirmation votes validators cast on external events, key rotations and threshold signatures, the command batches signed for other networks, routing records for each connected chain and asset, staking and reward records, and derived balances. Those records land in the normalized model SonarX uses on every network it covers.
Full historical coverage is available today as a data-share or a file delivery. Real-time delivery is enabled on request.
How SonarX indexes Axelar
The record here describes events that happened somewhere else, which inverts the usual indexing problem. A transfer’s Axelar side is a set of votes and a signature, not a movement of value, so counting transactions on this chain measures how much agreement was needed rather than how much money crossed. Votes also arrive per validator, so one external deposit produces many rows that have to be collapsed to a single confirmed event. Because the same asset exists under a wrapped denomination here and a native one on its home chain, following supply means holding both sides and knowing which direction each leg went.
What teams build with Axelar data
Bridged-supply accounting is the recurring request: how much of an asset exists as a wrapped representation, on which chain, against what was locked to back it. Route analysis is the second, measuring which corridors actually carry volume rather than which ones are connected, and it pairs naturally with venue data from Osmosis, where much of that supply ends up. Validator and reward accounting is the third, and it is specific to this chain, because rewards follow voting and signing participation rather than block proposal alone. Token analytics covers the cross-chain supply side of this work.
Getting Axelar data from SonarX
Tell us the delivery target, how far back you need and how fresh it has to be, and the share is scoped against that. Axelar history is available now as a share or a file delivery, and streaming is provisioned on request. Say which connected networks matter, because the counterparty histories are scoped alongside this one. The published coverage matrix for every network SonarX indexes lives in the data documentation, and the rest of the catalogue is at all indexed chains.
Is there an Axelar data API?
APIs over indexed Axelar data are enabled on request: the same indexed dataset the Snowflake share reads, served over REST once provisioned. Tell us the lookup pattern you need.
How do I get Axelar data into Snowflake?
SonarX provisions a data-share into your own Snowflake account. The share appears as a database you query with SQL, so there is no pipeline to build and no second copy to store, and it stays current as SonarX advances the indexing pipeline.
How far back does Axelar coverage go?
The historical data-share and file delivery cover the chain's recorded history from its December 2021 genesis forward, and are available today. Connected networks were added over that period, so the record for any one route starts when that network was registered rather than at Axelar's first block, and the share is scoped against the routes an analysis needs.
Where does the value actually move in an Axelar transfer?
On the two chains at either end. Axelar's own history holds the votes its validators cast on the sending chain's event, the threshold signature produced for the destination, and the routing record that ties them together. Tokens are locked or burned on one external chain and released or minted on the other, so one transfer takes three histories to describe completely.
Is Axelar EVM-compatible?
No, and its EVM module is about other networks rather than about execution here. That module tracks the gateway contracts Axelar maintains on EVM chains, the deposits confirmed against them and the command batches signed for them. Application contracts in this ecosystem are deployed on the connected chains, not on Axelar itself.