# Welcome to Spice

**Spice** is a high-performance web3 data provider and platform for applications, machine learning (ML), and data science. It's built and supported by the team at [**Spice AI**](https://spice.ai).

**🚩 Obtaining blockchain and smart-contract data is hard**.

For data in a format and quantities that's useful, you have to:

* 😓 build and operate archive node and data infrastructure
* 😓 understand and call JSON RPC APIs and smart-contract ABIs
* 😓 manage 10s of TBs of data<br>

**⛳️ Spice makes it easy.**

With **Spice,** you can query real-time and historical blockchain data **using SQL** in seconds and fetch results in **JSON** or **Apache Arrow** for easy use with apps, ML, or libraries like **NumPy** and **Pandas**.

Spice currently supports **Ethereum**, **Bitcoin**, **Polygon,** and **Flow** blockchains along with datasets for NFTs, DeFi, DEXs, ENS, Prices, and more.

Spice also includes high-RPS hosted **RPC Nodes**.

Take it for a spin, and try out the [getting started guide](https://docs.spice.ai/~/changes/fl1GUvkHE2461izfYRLa/getting-started/get-started).

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Feel free to ask any questions or queries to the team in [<mark style="color:purple;">Discord</mark>](https://discord.gg/kZnTfneP5u).
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