San Francisco, California, September 16th, 2024,
Chainwire
The Graph Network significantly upgraded its support for the
Solana network, building upon its previous integration. The Solana
developer community now has access to better data tools, more ways
to get started accessing indexed Solana data (including using
pre-built solutions by notable teams such as Messari and Top
Ledger).
The upgrades offer an enhanced development experience for
Substreams-powered subgraphs (SpS) with new codegen tools, usable
both remotely and locally. Developed by
StreamingFast, a core engineering team in
The Graph ecosystem, the dev-environment
includes tools to help developers quickly scaffold an end-to-end
Substreams project. This means unprecedented flexibility to Solana
development. For developers well-versed in Substreams, the new
tooling enables quick and easy syncing.
Developers can start building on Solana using The Graph even
without Substreams knowledge. The new tooling also empowers
developers to access Solana data without ever touching Substreams
or Rust. This means developers can easily work with Solana data
using tooling that best suits their skills and project
requirements.
Other notable enhancements are the Solana Substreams modules
developed by Top Ledger and StreamingFast, and multiple Substreams
and Substreams-powered subgraphs developed by Messari. Developers
will also gain access to several ready-to-use Substreams-powered
subgraphs, including UNCX and Orca Whirlpool.
“The meteoric rise of developer and user activity on
Solana has created a huge demand for open, decentralized data that
is true to the values of web3. The Graph’s latest tooling upgrade
and enhanced support will ensure the Solana community can get even
more value out of web3’s decentralized data layer,” said Nick
Hansen, Head of Growth, The Graph Foundation.
Solana’s technology, particularly its high transaction speed and
low fees, have made it a preferred choice for many decentralized
applications (dapps) and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects.
With the Solana ecosystem growing rapidly, the demand for efficient
data indexing and querying is skyrocketing.
The Graph's enhanced support for Solana equips developers with
powerful tools to build decentralized applications (dapps) and
analyze on-chain data more efficiently. It now offers lower costs,
a more efficient data source, and an improved programmable indexing
stack that's easier to use, faster to index, and provides a
historical cache of Solana blocks that are 25% the size of a
full-block.
These improvements are part of The Graph’s mission to support
the multi-chain future and foster interoperability in web3. The
upgraded tools will be particularly useful to Solana developers,
data analysts working with Solana data, and the broader web3
community interested in data solutions.
The Graph Network remains committed to providing web3 developers
with a decentralized data network with over 9,000 subgraphs. It
deprecated its free hosted service in June, transitioning to a
decentralized network to empower developers and the entire web3
ecosystem by ensuring data autonomy and decentralization.
ABOUT THE GRAPH
The Graph is the source of data and information for the
decentralized internet. As the original decentralized data
marketplace that introduced and standardized subgraphs, The Graph
has become web3’s method of indexing and accessing blockchain data.
Since its launch in 2018, tens of thousands of developers have
built subgraphs for dapps
across 70+ blockchains - including Ethereum, Arbitrum,
Optimism, Base, Polygon, Celo, Fantom, Gnosis, and Avalanche.
As demand for data in web3 continues to grow, The Graph enters a
New Era with a more
expansive vision including new data services and query languages,
ensuring the decentralized protocol can serve any use case - now
and into the future.
Discover more about how The Graph is shaping the future of
decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and stay
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Discord.
The Graph Foundation
oversees The Graph Network. The Graph Foundation is overseen by the
Technical Council.
Edge & Node, StreamingFast, Semiotic Labs, The Guild, Messari, GraphOps, Pinax and Geo are eight of the many
organizations within The Graph ecosystem.
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