Edge & Node's February / March Update

Research & Development Core Team Updates
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:woman_astronaut: Executive Summary

2025 continues with advances to the depth of user experience and the breadth of available offerings. The Graph’s increasing adoption took us past 11,111 subgraphs on the Network. February saw significant advancements across user education, subgraph features, tools, and ecosystem growth. Highlights include a host of new supported chains and the release of revamped docs. We also added a brand new segment to the Ecosystem division of the website: check out Events! Among a ton of successful talks and workshops at ETHDenver was an assessment The Graph’s continued redefinition of support in the Web3 landscape. After Helium joined the House of Web3 to benefit from ongoing live collaboration and technical support, other teams like Madvision have recognized the value of basing team members there as well. Looking ahead, we are focused on Horizon integration, continued ecosystem growth, and making piloted flexible billing options a wider reality. Read on for more detail.

Notable February Accomplishments

Engineering

  • Studio & Product Engineering

  • Graph Node

    • YAML Parsing in Subgraph Mappings: Added host functions allowing direct parsing of YAML documents within subgraph mappings.

  • Indexer Components

    • Added support for four new networks: Zora, Mode, Moonbeam, Rootstock.
    • Began using Network Registry as the authoritative source for network IDs and names.
    • Given the success of the The Graph Protocol migration from Ethereum to Arbitrum, we removed multi-network support to simplify operations.

  • Protocol

    • Presented GIP-0070 to the Council and began planning an MVP for rapid implementation.
    • Continued progress on the DIPs smart contracts and initiated audit planning.
    • Supporting GraphOps in implementing network subgraph changes.

  • Gateway

    • Released Gateway v27.1.0 (release notes) with enhancements such as:
      • Inclusion of subgraph ID in reports.
      • Update to several Docker-related dependencies.

Business Development

  • UMA onboarded for Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum (~6M queries/month).
  • Crystal Exchange successfully onboarded (Monad ecosystem).
  • Vana ETHDenver Event Partnership: Co-hosted with Vana, a major AI project backed by Binance.

Marketing

  • Effective co-marketing campaigns for Monad, Cambrian Network, RWAs, Zetachain, Unichain, Mode, and Vana.
  • Strong engagement on promotional campaigns, reaching over 125K impressions.

Developer Relations

  • Wrote the best practice guide for timeseries and aggregations! Developers can simplify their lives by adopting it.
  • Strengthened The Graph’s presence at ETHDenver with video/blog content for hackathon participants and enhanced workshops for all.
  • Hosted multiple Graph Builders Office Hours with topics including Subgraph Composition, Sonic L1 FeeM, and GRC-20 Hackathon insights.
  • Strong engagement on X, with key sessions exceeding 5K views.

House of Web3

  • Hosted the Chain Chapters event with DFinity and the Hard Crypto event with Mark Beylin.
  • Secured multiple co-creator renewals and onboarded new members.
  • Following the Helium team, more teams are opting for bundled participation in How3.

What’s Next:

  • Host the official EthSF kick-off event with Vitalik and Tomasz Stanczak, the newly appointed Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation.
  • Continue promoting the GRC-20 Hackathon.
  • Implement Auto-Grafting to enable automatic syncing of subgraph dependency chains.
  • Introduce Deployment Tags to align subgraph names with deployment rules.
  • Develop Dashboard Templates for simplified Grafana-based monitoring.
  • Continue rolling out Studio billing updates.
  • Final Horizon audit and launch preparations.
  • Test and iterate on the DIPs MVP while advancing toward a smart contract-based solution.
  • Coordinate AI research and tool action integration with StreamingFast and Semiotic.
  • Support Pinax’s launch of the Token API and Datasets beta products.
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