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Crius vs Goldsky for Robinhood Chain
Goldsky is a toolkit for building your own index: Subgraphs (your GraphQL API from your mappings) and Turbo Pipelines (stream chain data into your own database), plus an Edge RPC. Crius is a finished index of Robinhood Chain's markets that you call directly.
Checked against Goldsky's public documentation in October 2026. Sources are listed below.
What Goldsky offers on Robinhood Chain
- Goldsky supports Robinhood Chain with Subgraphs (an instant GraphQL API for the data you index) and Turbo Pipelines, the successor to Mirror, which stream chain data into a destination you control.
- Goldsky Edge provides a Robinhood Chain RPC endpoint with global edge distribution and failover.
| Feature | Crius | Goldsky |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Yes REST + WebSocket, one chain-specific schema | Yes GraphQL (your subgraph), pipelines to your DB, RPC |
| Real-time delivery | Yes WebSocket channels per token, pool, wallet, launches, new pools | Yes Streaming pipelines |
| History depth | Yes From block 0 | Yes Backfilled into your subgraph or DB |
| Decoded DEX trades | Yes With real-trader attribution, tax, finality | Partly If you index them |
| OHLCV candles | Yes 1s to 1d, spike-filtered | Partly If you build them |
| Token holders | Yes Live, snapshots at any block, cohorts, history | Partly If you build them |
| Launchpads (Pons, Flap.sh…) | Yes Pons, Flap.sh, Bankr, Long.xyz, King of the Markets | Partly If you index them |
| Uniswap v4 hooks | Yes Decoded permissions and risk flags | Partly If you index them |
| Honeypot / tax checks | Yes Realized + simulated tax, honeypot verdict | No Not provided |
| Wallet PnL | Yes Realized/unrealized PnL, top traders | Partly Wallet transfers & balances feed listed |
| RPC / send transactions | No Read API only; pair with an RPC provider to write | Yes Edge RPC |
| Free access | Yes Free plan: 1M credits/month, no card; keyless core calls | Partly "Sign up for free" (limits not verified) |
Choose Goldsky if…
- You want your own schema and storage, or to join chain data with your private data.
- You need contracts or events that no ready-made API models.
Choose Crius if…
- You don't want to write mappings, run pipelines or operate a database.
- You need cross-cutting analytics (PnL, cohorts, bundles, honeypots) that take a lot of indexing work to build.
Using both is common: an RPC or multi-chain provider for writes and other chains, Crius for Robinhood Chain market data.
Crius vs Goldsky: questions
Is Goldsky a data API or an indexing tool?
Mainly an indexing toolkit: you define what to index (subgraphs) or where to stream it (pipelines). Crius is the ready-made index for Robinhood Chain market data.
Can I combine them?
Yes: Crius for standard market data, Goldsky for your own contracts' custom data.
Sources
- Goldsky: Robinhood Chain: goldsky.com/chains/robinhood
- Goldsky docs: Subgraphs vs Mirror: docs.goldsky.com/subgraph-vs-mirror
- Crius: crius.sh/docs and crius.sh/pricing
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