Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO Scott Dykstra discusses what the team has learned since mainnet, where AI agents are already using verifiable onchain data, and how Space and Time’s strategy is evolving as blockchain infrastructure matures.
QS to Scott Dykstra, Space and Time Co-founder and CTO
You built a purpose-specific chain rather than operating as a general L1 competitor. Now that SXT Chain has been live for over a year, has that architectural bet paid off the way you expected, or has the rise of things like rollup ecosystems pulled the roadmap in directions you didn’t originally anticipate?
Choosing to build a purpose-specific chain was a necessity in order to solve a technical problem for Ethereum (allowing smart contracts to query verifiable data) rather than a bet on what blockchain approach would be most popular later. Space and Time’s Proof of SQL technology needed a purpose-specific chain of nodes sitting next to Ethereum, working together to verify Ethereum data and return query results back to customers’ smart contracts. It’s almost like an oracle for querying data.
