The Graph’s Builders Office Hours #69 features a deep dive into Loky with DappLooker. TL;DR: Loky, an AI analytics agent from DappLooker, uses The Graph to deliver real-time blockchain insights in a witty, engaging way. It tracks token prices, wallet activity, and market trends across multiple chains, offering actionable signals via X and a web terminal. As AI in web3…
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StreamingFast’s Developer Contest Recap Substreams are transforming how developers access and analyze blockchain data, enabling real-time, composable indexing solutions. Please check out our previous blog, Substreams 101: A Novice’s Introduction TL;DR: The Substreams ecosystem is evolving, and developers have been pushing the boundaries of on-chain data indexing. To celebrate this innovation, StreamingFast launched an 8-week contest, rewarding builders for high-usage…
Learn about Ricky, the data scientist and indexer developing cutting-edge automation and data tools in The Graph community. TL;DR: Riccardo “Ricky” Esclapon transitioned from business analytics to blockchain innovation, becoming a prominent data scientist and indexer in The Graph community. Driven by curiosity and self-learning, he developed numerous automation tools benefiting indexers and curators. Currently, Ricky leverages AI-driven agents at…
TL;DR: Matthew from Pinax presented on scaling Substreams, explaining how to set up and monitor tier 1 and tier 2 nodes for processing blockchain data. The architecture involves tier 1 nodes that are chain-specific and tier 2 nodes that are blockchain-agnostic. The setup requires monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana, with proper hardware sizing depending on specific Substreams workloads and complexity….
TL;DR: The Graph Networks Registry is a repository that consolidates and standardizes network information for blockchains supported by The Graph. Before its implementation, core dev teams and others faced challenges with fragmented data and manual updates, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistencies. The registry now serves as a single source of truth that enables developers, indexers, and delegators to access reliable…
TL;DR: Key points introduced during the open discussion about GIP-0081: Indexing Payments:- The motivation for this proposal is to design a developer-friendly way to get subgraphs indexed.- Indexing agreements will stipulate the subgraph to be indexed and the price per unit of “work done” indexing.- The proposal includes two clauses to protect the gateway: a maximum amount for initial syncing…
TL;DR: Yaniv introduced GRC-20, a new standard for knowledge graphs that can be used across applications. Christophe shared the current implementation, including three major components: a sink that uses Substreams to read on-chain events, Neo4j for storing entities, and a GraphQL API server for exposing data to consumer apps. Indexers will be able to choose which spaces they want to…
TL;DR: Pinax’s week in Bangkok started with side events like the Staking Summit, Datapalooza BKK, and the Decentralised Data Summit. The main event, Devcon SEA 2024, brought together 12,500 innovators from 130 countries at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, featuring six stages and numerous workshops. The conference emphasized collaboration over marketing, with notable discussions around decentralized science and connections…
TL;DR: Ricky shared his progress on indexer operations automation tools, including an Indexer Management Interface and a Curation Signal Allocation Optimizer. He showed several demo videos, including deleting subgraphs, quality of service metrics, and real-time ISA score. The session outlined a seven-step roadmap, with the ultimate goal being the integration of knowledge/note taking, AI agents, and a coding environment, all…
Uniswap’s Unichain testnet is live, and mainnet is on its way, both with The Graph integration from day one, opening doors for unprecedented DeFi innovation. TL;DR: Unichain, a new Layer 2 blockchain built by Uniswap on the OP Stack, aims to revolutionize DeFi with near-instant transaction speeds and affordable fees. As an appchain specifically designed for DeFi, it features deep…