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Covalent is built by an experienced team of data scientists and blockchain and database engineers passionate about improving and scaling blockchain technologies. Ganesh Swami, CEO and Co-founder, is a physicist by training and started his career designing algorithms for cancer drugs in the pharmaceutical space. His first company is listed on the NYSE. Levi Aul, CTO and Co-founder, built one of the first Bitcoin exchanges in Canada and was part of the team that built CouchDB at IBM. More information about the team can be found at[ https://www.covalenthq.com/about/](https://www.covalenthq.com/about/)

[Covalent](https://www.covalenthq.com/) leverages big-data technologies to create meaning from hundreds of billions of data points, delivering actionable insights to investors and allowing developers to allocate resources to higher-utility goals within their organization. Instead of painstakingly sourcing data from a small handful of chains, Covalent aggregates information from across dozens of sources including nodes, chains and data feeds. The Covalent API then sources end-users with individualized data by wallet, including current and historical investment performance across all types of digital assets. Most importantly, Covalent returns this data in a rapid and consistent manner, incorporating all relevant data within one API interface. Having achieved product-market fit, we are now planning to execute the next phase of Covalent, which is a progressive decentralization that will enable the Covalent Network to be owned and operated by its users. Of course, a critical piece to this is CQT. CQT is the native token of the Covalent Network. It has three primary purposes: - CQT is a governance token, whereby token holders vote on proposals to change the system parameters. - CQT is a staking asset. Validators will earn fees for answering queries. - CQT is a network access token that fulfills data queries for users of the API. Developer resources include: * [Covalent Knowledge Base]() for extensive guides on how to use the Covalent API.  * [Covalent API Documentation]().