Introducing Basin

Basin is an open platform that allows you to publish data from your network, databases, and applications in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and open to any consumer, app builder, or data scientist.

Basin enables easy publication of data from existing databases, such as Postgres, in a public domain. A cryptographic verification layer ensures data authenticity, giving both publishers and consumers peace of mind. Basin's SQL interface allows you to build on your own and others' data, creating queries for applications, analytics, or data pipelines.

Basin prioritizes data permanence by integrating with Filecoin. All ingested data is securely stored on the decentralized Filecoin network, ensuring long-term reliability and accessibility.

Key Features

Secure and Verifiable: Basin employs cryptographic verification to ensure the integrity and authenticity of shared data, providing a secure environment for data sharing.
Open Data Sharing: Publish data from your networks, databases, and applications in the public domain, enabling other services and application builders to build upon your data.
SQL Interface: Create SQL views that span multiple public or private data publications to promote seamless collaboration and knowledge exchange among various stakeholders.
Data Durability: Basin integrates with Filecoin to store all ingested data on the decentralized network, ensuring long-term reliability and accessibility.
Managed and Scalable: Basin is a fully managed, easy-to-use, open-source, and scalable service that enables you to publish and consume large amounts of data with ease.

Key Concepts

Component	Use
Sources	Sources are where the data in Basin comes from (e.g. Postgres).
Publications	Publications define the data you are pushing to Basin (e.g. from a Postgres Publication derived from a local `VIEW`), a wire format (e.g. Avro), and a delivery method (e.g. HTTP). Note, despite the overlap with Postgres Publications, we are using the word “publications” generically to define a schema, wire format, and delivery method.
Views	Views are saved queries of publications and other views that you can execute repeatedly.
Materialized views	Materialized views are physical copies of query results.
Sinks	Sinks are destinations where Basin sends data, such as output streams, networks, or files. By default, all publications have a decentralized cold storage sink (Filecoin).

Roadmap

We’re designing and building Basin in phases, increasing in utility/power and decentralization along the way.

Phase 1: Share and consume Publications from your database over decentralized storage

<aside> 💡 Focus: Provide transparency to canonical single-source data publications.

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