Sector Catalogue
The sector catalogue below is the closed set of buyer-facing service categories used in the dashboard.
| Sector | Description | Illustrative Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Blockspace Production | Systems that sell execution capacity, block building, data availability, or proof generation and verification to chains, rollups, applications, and downstream agents that execute against smart contracts. Buyers are protocol teams, application teams, rollups, and any agent that must purchase compute, inclusion, availability, or proofs for their users and workloads. | Bitcoin, Ethereum |
| Interoperability and Messaging | Systems that relay assets or messages across domains and provide intent settlement or liquidity routing for cross-domain activity. Includes cross-domain liquidity networks and intent routers; token transfers are a dominant use case of messaging. Buyers are applications, wallets, and rollups that need reliable movement of value or calls between environments. | Wormhole, Cosmos |
| Trusted Data and Identity | Systems that sell trusted inputs to other systems: price feeds, randomness, external facts, or compute outputs, and identity credentials or naming resolution. Buyers are protocols and applications that require verifiable data or identity primitives to operate. | Chainlink, Pyth Network |
| Storage and Indexing | Systems that provide persistent storage, retrieval and delivery, or indexing and query of data and state. Buyers are applications and users that pay for durable bytes, bandwidth, and structured access to data. | Filecoin, Arweave |
| Communications and Privacy Infrastructure | Systems that provide messaging, routing, connectivity/access, or confidentiality overlays where communication or privacy is the purchased outcome (for example, private routing, secure messaging, transaction or data confidentiality layers). Buyers are users and applications seeking confidentiality for content, state, or flows. | Helium, Nym |
| Money and Payments | Systems that issue or settle instruments used as money and that process payments for consumers and businesses. Buyers are users, merchants, enterprises, and financial intermediaries that require issuance, redemption, or acceptance rails. | Bitcoin, Dogecoin |
| Trading and Exchange | Systems that match or route orders for spot or derivative trading or that protect order flow. Includes token launchpads and primary distribution venues for tradable tokens. Buyers are traders, treasuries, and wallets paying for execution quality, liquidity access, and risk transfer. | Binance, Uniswap |
| Credit and Asset Management | Systems that originate or manage credit or that offer pooled strategies and staking products. Buyers are borrowers and asset holders seeking liquidity, yield, leverage, or exposure. | Jito, Aave |
| Tokenised Assets | Systems that issue or service real-world assets, securitised products, and on-chain funds. Buyers are issuers and investors paying for issuance, servicing, custody, or fund operations. | Raydium, Ondo Finance |
| Consumer Platforms and Media | Systems that monetise attention, fandom, creative work, or interactive entertainment through digital goods and networks. Buyers are creators, brands, investors, and consumers paying for distribution, monetisation, and marketplace services. | Brave, Chiliz |
| Coordination and Governance | Systems that provide collective decision making, treasury operations, grants, or dispute resolution. Buyers are distinct external communities and ecosystems that pay for programme operation and governance capabilities. | Aragon, Gitcoin |