Edge & Node's April / May 2026 Update

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Executive Summary

Edge & Node reached a pivotal governance milestone in April: the Graph Council approved all four GIPs underpinning Indexing Payments (DIPs), clearing the final governance hurdle before mainnet deployment. On the infrastructure side, graph-node v0.43.0 shipped with per-chain RPC configuration, automatic provider failover, and support for querying Subgraph logs via the GraphQL endpoint. The log querying support, together with the DIPs governance advances, moves key dependencies forward for decentralizing Studio. Meanwhile Gateway v27.6.0 added x402 support as another payment option for Subgraph queries. The team also maintained strong conference presence across DAS NYC, Merge São Paulo, Google Next, and Money 20/20 Bangkok. Up next: DIPs and the Rewards Eligibility Oracle are headed to mainnet, and work is underway on a decentralized Studio UI that would let Subgraph developers publish directly to the Network.

Notable April Accomplishments

Protocol

• GIPs for DIPs and issuance allocation approved by the Council! This is a key governance milestone that unlocks the next phase of protocol-level indexing payments:

  • GIP-0076 (Issuance Allocator Contract)

  • GIP-0086 (Rewards Manager and Subgraph Service Upgrade)

  • GIP-0087 (On-Chain Indexing Agreements)

  • GIP-0088 (Issuance Allocator Deployment and Indexing Payments Configuration)

• Submitted audit fixes for DIPs contracts

• Deployed upgraded contracts for DIPs, rewards eligibility, and issuance allocation to testnet

• Stress testing of the dipper/IISA component of DIPs against real scoring pipeline on a testnet cluster is ongoing

Graph Node

Released v0.43.0 with notable improvements for indexer operations:

• skipDuplicates for immutable entities: A new parameter on the @entity directive silently skips duplicate inserts instead of failing the Subgraph, unblocking composition on Amp-powered Subgraphs

• Per-chain RPC settings via TOML config: Chain-specific tuning parameters can now be set per chain instead of relying solely on global environment variables

• RPC provider failover for block ingestor: If an RPC provider becomes unreachable during block ingestion, graph-node now automatically switches to a healthy alternative

• Call cache eviction rewrite: Replaced per-contract iteration with ctidbased join deletes, significantly faster on large call_cache tables.

Decentralizing Studio

• Dependency work advanced significantly: DIPs progress (see above) and graph-node support for logs queries via the standard query path both unblock key Studio decentralization requirements

• Components integration underway to enable local end-to-end DIPs testing

Gateway

Released v27.6.0, featuring:

• Significant cleanup of Horizon transition code and TAP v1 compatibility

• x402 support for Subgraph queries via the gateway, enabling pay-per-request query payments at the HTTP layer.

• Removed the block data probe query rewrite, restoring meaningful query attestations for clients

Content & Community

• Published several thought leadership articles

• Continued shipping the Signal Newsletter weekly to ~13,000 subscribers

• Announced running a validator on the Canton Network, expanding presence in the institutional DLT space

• Conference presence: DAS NYC, Merge São Paulo, Google Next (Las Vegas), Money 20/20 Bangkok

What’s Next

• DIPs and Rewards Eligibility Oracle mainnet launch: Final testing wrapping up, with mainnet deployment imminent

• Continuing engineering work to bring Amp to the network as a decentralized data service

• Continuing conference circuit amplification at Proof of Talk and beyond

• Building a decentralized Studio UI that would allow Subgraph devs to bypass Upgrade Indexer and publish directly to the Network!