news.ycombinator.com• May 4, 2026• 1 min read
SQL access to crypto market data, not just JSONHi HN,I’m Nazim, founders of Koinju.io and I wanted to share here an exploratory option we opened very recently: providing access to our database, which contains all cryptocurrency market data, via SQL. REST give access for direct retrieval but we're thinking more and more that SQL access for analytical work over a unified crypto market data layer could be of something because of llms.This was partly triggered by Didier Lopes, ceo of OpenBB recent essay on financial firms owning the infrastructure where financial work happens (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-did-we-end-up-here-didier-rodrigues-lopes-hgeqe/ ), especially the runtime where workflows execute and AI inference happens.Most data APIs were designed for software that already knows what it wants. Call an endpoint, get JSON, parse it, compute somewhere else. That model worked great and still works great. But I’m not sure it maps well to llm-driven workflows, especially with big data.A language model can call APIs /read JSON o