Indexed BabylonBlockchain Data
Babylon is the Cosmos SDK chain behind Bitcoin staking, where BTC stays locked in a self-custodial Bitcoin transaction while the delegation, the finality provider and any slashing evidence are recorded on chain.
How to query Babylon data with SonarX
Instant Data Share
Available todaySnowflake, and file dumps to your object storage
Query Babylon 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 Babylon 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 Babylon 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 Babylon 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 Babylon data behind their own API layer
Babylon data: frequently asked questions
What is Babylon?
Babylon is a Bitcoin staking protocol with a chain of its own. The chain, Babylon Genesis, is built with the Cosmos SDK and opened in 2025, after the protocol’s Bitcoin staking had already gone live on mainnet the year before. Consensus is a multi-staked variant of CometBFT: validators are backed both by staked BABY, the native token with six decimals, and by Bitcoin stake, so two assets stand behind a block. The staking itself happens on Bitcoin: a holder locks BTC in a self-custodial transaction with a timelocked script, and nothing is wrapped, bridged or handed to a custodian. Finality providers, rather than the validators alone, sign for the finality of the systems Babylon secures, and the protocol also timestamps events from other chains into Bitcoin blocks so they inherit Bitcoin’s ordering.
Babylon data on SonarX
SonarX indexes what this chain records: blocks and transactions with their typed messages, BTC delegation and unbonding records, finality-provider registrations and their signatures, slashing and evidence records, BABY staking and rewards, governance activity, and derived account balances. Everything is normalized into the model SonarX uses across every network it covers, so a delegation here can be matched against the Bitcoin transaction that funded it.
Full historical coverage is available today as a data-share or a file delivery. Real-time delivery is enabled on request.
How SonarX indexes Babylon
Every stake spans two ledgers, which is the whole indexing problem. The lock is a Bitcoin transaction whose script encodes the terms, and the delegation record, the finality provider it backs and any slashing evidence are messages here, so neither history is complete alone and a position only makes sense once the two are joined. Bitcoin timestamping supplies the join: chain events reference Bitcoin heights, so the two records line up by block rather than by clock time. Finality is also two-layered, because a block carries its consensus commitment and, separately, the finality signatures that make it irreversible for the systems relying on it.
What teams build with Babylon data
BTC staking accounting is the first workload: what was delegated, to which finality provider, for how long and what it earned, restated per period the way a fund or a custodian has to report it. Staking analytics covers that shape of work across chains. Risk analysis is the second, and it is specific here, since the exposure being measured is a timelocked Bitcoin script rather than a balance in a contract. Provider concentration research is the third, tracking how stake is distributed across finality providers over time. Teams comparing ways of earning on BTC usually hold Core alongside it.
Getting Babylon 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. Babylon history is available now as a share or a file delivery, and streaming is provisioned on request. Say early whether the Bitcoin side is in scope, because most questions about this protocol need both. 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 a Babylon data API?
APIs over indexed Babylon 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 Babylon 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 Babylon coverage go?
To the chain's own genesis, which opened in 2025, and it is available today as a data-share or file delivery. Bitcoin staking ran on mainnet before that chain existed, so the earliest delegations were recorded on Bitcoin rather than here, and a complete staking history needs the Bitcoin side of the record too. Depth is confirmed when the share is scoped.
Is Babylon part of Bitcoin, or its own chain?
Its own chain, even though half of what it accounts for lives on Bitcoin. Nothing about Babylon changes Bitcoin, and Bitcoin has no knowledge of it: the staking transactions are ordinary Bitcoin transactions whose scripts happen to be timelocked in a way the protocol recognizes. SonarX indexes Babylon as a standalone network, with a separate Bitcoin dataset for the other half.
