# Edge & Node’s November/December Update **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Team Updates\ **Tags:** edgeandnode\ **Created:** [December 8, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/edge-node-s-november-december-update/4937 "2023-12-08T21:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tegan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/tegan/32/1677_2.png) [@Tegan](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/Tegan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/edge-node-s-november-december-update/4937/1 "2023-12-08T21:40:17Z")
## 👩‍🚀 Executive Summary At Edge & Node, we are on a mission to make The Graph the internet’s unbreakable foundation of open data to create a world powered by individual autonomy, shared self-sovereignty and limitless collaboration. November brings us closer to our mission with an invigorating, expanded vision detailed with a new roadmap, a full day of data-powered development during Devconnect, new improvements to The Graph Network and much more. Learn how Edge & Node continues to fortify the The Graph’s user experience and network adoption looking at December and beyond. ### **Notable November Accomplishments:** - In conjunction with The Graph Foundation, we assembled and marketed the [New Era of The Graph campaign](https://thegraph.com/blog/the-graph-roadmap-new-era/), clarifying The Graph’s roadmap for new data services and use cases - Our presence at Datapalooza during DevConnect in Istanbul included 33 projects using The Graph, and the conference features 3 speakers from The Graph on topics from data standards to Gossip Network and high-performance queries using SQL - We revamped the chain integration process, speeding up the timeframe to add new chains - We deployed The Graph Network testnet to Sepolia with all network components and deprecated the Göerli environment. _This list is non-exhaustive — for more details on the above and other accomplishments, please read on._ ### 1. Increasing Adoption of The Graph Network - The adoption of The Graph Network is accelerating. With 24 new upgrades in November The Graph Network is now home to: - 1,475 subgraphs total published on the network, up 6% MoM - Of which, 425 subgraphs have 1K+ in monthly queries - **A new all time high - up 15% MoM** - We have continued to help scale The Graph Network participants transfer to L2 on Arbitrum: - 1.8B+ GRT is now on Arbitrum, representing over 68% of all GRT flowing in the protocol - Over 65% of all of The Graph Network’s query volume is now taking place on Arbitrum - In particular, 55%+ of all subgraphs with 1K+ monthly queries are now on Arbitrum (up from 47% last month) ### 2. Improving The Graph Network experience - The Graph Council approved [GGP-0033: Increase L2 rewards to 95%](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0x19cbb1c4b9036cb7b31e9402cb5a5ccb90c66961a46a40af5cc46424f15984b9). Now most indexing rewards are distributed on Arbitrum, encouraging participants to take advantage of vastly lower gas costs on L2. - To improve the use of arbitration from other contracts, we started a governance vote for [GIP-41: Store Dispute Status](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0041-store-dispute-status-on-resolution/3759) - To reduce friction around subgraph version upgrades, we started a governance vote for [GIP-59: Remove Owner Tax](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0059-disable-subgraph-owner-tax-when-publishing-a-new-version/4460) - OpenZeppelin finished the audit of Scalar/Time-Aggregation Protocol (TAP) escrow and we deployed the contracts on Sepolia Testnet. The goal is to minimize trust requirements between payers and payees while building a system that’s scalable, fast, robust, and cheap. We did this in collaboration with Semiotic. - We submitted [Rust framework for building new types of data services](https://github.com/graphprotocol/indexer-rs/pull/80) provided by Indexers, which is currently in review alongside Semiotic. - Create Indexer service framework - Refactor of the Rust Indexer-service to use this framework being tested - Port of subgraph indexer-service to the Indexer service framework - We heard the community’s feedback and amended [GIP-0058: Replacing Bonding Curves with Indexing Fees](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0058-replacing-bonding-curves-with-indexing-fees/4425) (a way for Indexers to get paid directly by users for indexing). We clarified what this means for Curation as well as how Horizon comes into the fold. - To further decentralization, we started the governance vote period to remove the requirement of specific governance-approved entities in order to pay query fees to Indexers on The Graph Network. Voting on [GIP-56: Enable permissionless payers](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/permissionless-payers-gip/4397) is happening [here](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0xd4439329c0d44f9d61e777f12d5ab7483114c74d818c556b4c85c02a716cd725). - To optimize the Indexer and Delegator dynamic, we started the governance vote period to remove the delegation parameters cooldown period. Voting on [GIP-62: Remove delegation parameters cooldown](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0062-remove-delegation-parameters-cooldown/4637) is happening [here](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0x5964839c90a4bccb625db68d8afa1e632bf4b99d9d8e17ac3539798c935ded25). ### 3. Empowering the wider ecosystem of The Graph - Edge & Node continues to create content to engage and educate the ecosystem — followers viewed 46,000 minutes of video content from The Graph’s X account in the last month, constituting over 1,800% from the month prior. - We continued to update the community on additional progress made towards the Sunrise of decentralized data by releasing more details about [the three Sunrise Phases](https://thegraph.com/blog/unveiling-updated-sunrise-decentralized-data/) to upgrade the hosted service to The Graph Network - Recurring content breaks down what the Sunrise means for each participant type in The Graph ecosystem: [dapp developers](https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1728091105718084080), [Indexers](https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1730610155916558385), data consumers, Delegators, Curators, and the community - Educated on the [specific benefits of the upgrade Indexer](https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1728091105718084080) as part of the Sunrise plan - We gave virtual presentations about The Graph at two international events: - Chains Beyond Borders in Dubai - BlockhashCon in South America - The House of Web3 hosted an immersive web3 art event and its second BuildEth event ## What’s Next ### We continue pushing towards the Sunrise of Decentralized Data: - We plan to kickoff the Sunray phase (first phase of Sunrise) soon with the launch of the upgrade Indexer - Maintain the network dapp upgrade momentum to finish the year stronger than ever as we march towards Sunrise - Continue heralding L2 adoption on the network to enable faster and lower cost transactions on the network, increasing network efficiency, and increasing participant adoption around the world - Promoting [The Graph Network’s 3rd birthday](https://twitter.com/thehouseofweb3/status/1729559508156850362) in San Francisco and worldwide! - Solidify 2024 marketing as the beginning of the New Era, ushering in new data services and use cases made possible by The Graph serving even more data needs - We will turn off test mode for the Upgrade Indexer in the near future, making it fully production-enabled - Planning Sunrise-related changes to Graph CLI with The Guild ### We continue collaborating on DevE **x, UX and feature improvements to The Graph Network:** - Develop and educate the community on exciting new Sunray developments, such as the upgrade interface flow and the free query plan - Continue honing in on the chain integration process to speed up execution and ensure The Graph is always the choice that chains make when launching - Publish a blog post detailing the protocol’s proposed evolution through Horizon and share in Indexer Office Hours - Continue seeking feedback and working on consensus for [GIP-0058: Replacing Bonding Curves with Indexing Fees](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0058-replacing-bonding-curves-with-indexing-fees/4425/73) - Work on revocable query keys within the subscription feature of network Billing - Optimize infrastructure use for Subgraph Studio to make it more efficient - We are looking into chain requests made from the Messari team - Substreams triggers in subgraphs: working with StreamingFast to allow subgraph developers to write additional handlers for the output from specific Substreams modules - Introducing Timestamps to Graph Node in collaboration with The Guild - Ideation & scoping for the SQL Data Service with Semiotic & StreamingFast