Introduction

Polybase is a privacy preserving decentralized database, built on zk-STARKs. We use a zk-rollup combined with native indexing to allow decentralized database rules, fast queries and scalable writes.

At a high level, Polybase is a NoSQL-like database, with validation rules written in a JavaScript like language. The SDK is similar to Firestore and Supabase.

Polybase is better than using a centralized database like Firebase, Postgres or Supabase because you can encrypt data using wallets for “self sovereign data” and verifiably query Polybase from smart collections (coming soon).

Polybase is better than storing data on-chain because it’s 1000 to a million times cheaper than on-chain storage. For example, storing 1MB on Ethereum costs around $10,000.

Blockchains are not built for scalable structured data storage so we built Polybase to combine the best attributes of web2 databases and blockchains.

You can get started in under 5 minutes.