One particular database company just witnessed its shares explode by a staggering 25% in a single trading session. The catalyst? Surging demand for its cloud-native database platform, now turbocharged by the AI boom sweeping across enterprise infrastructure. As decentralized applications and blockchain projects increasingly rely on robust, scalable data management solutions, this kind of infrastructure plays a pivotal—if often invisible—role. The rally underscores how traditional database architectures are evolving to support not just Web2 workloads, but the distributed storage and compute demands of emerging Web3 ecosystems. Investors are clearly betting that whoever controls the data layer controls the future—whether that future is centralized AI models or on-chain data indexing for smart contracts.