# Overview

Streams provide a low-latency, high-throughput way to gain valuable data insights. With Proxima, you can put blockchain data to use by consuming streams and operating on them in *your own hosted solution*. This means no more relying on 3rd party stream operators to populate your database, train your bots, or manage your wallet.

### Why streams?

The data in the form of streams allows you to:

* Get the latest blockchain updates as soon as possible
* Subscribe to a particular kind of events and get notified when they happen
* Process on-chain events in the order they occurred and not care about sequential inconsistencies

### Usage scenarios

* Subscribe to live updates coming from the network in real-time.
* Consume all historical events from the beginning.
* Start consuming from a given timestamp or from the point you stopped last time.
* *Coming soon:* subscribe to multiple streams simultaneously and process events in the order they happened on the chain gracefully handling reorgs.

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