Overview
Dune lets you query blockchain data using SQL and build shareable dashboards. The community has built thousands of public dashboards tracking everything from protocol revenue to whale wallets to NFT floor prices. If you can write SQL, you can answer almost any on-chain question.
Pricing
✅ When to use
- Tracking DeFi protocol metrics: TVL, volume, user growth, fee revenue over time
- Building custom dashboards for protocol analytics or investment due diligence
- Finding on-chain data that no existing tool surfaces — custom SQL gives you anything
- Monitoring specific wallet addresses or analyzing token holder distributions
❌ When NOT to use
- Real-time data needs — Dune queries can have 30-60 minute data lag
- Non-technical users who just want pre-built dashboards — DefiLlama is simpler
- Single transaction lookups — Etherscan is faster for that use case
💡 Personal Tips
Before writing from scratch, search Dune's public dashboard library — someone has almost certainly built what you need. Fork and modify existing queries rather than starting from blank. The community `dune` decoded tables are pre-decoded and far easier to query than raw event logs. For price data, the `prices.usd` table is your best friend. Set up query alerts to notify you when metrics cross thresholds — useful for monitoring protocol health. The Dune AI assistant helps generate SQL for common patterns.