# Edge & Node's March/April Update

**URL:** <https://forum.thegraph.com/t/edge-nodes-march-april-update/5430>\
**Category:** Core Team Updates\
**Tags:** edgeandnode\
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/edge-nodes-march-april-update/5430 "2024-03-01T04:36:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/edge-nodes-march-april-update/5430/1 "2024-03-01T04:36:05Z")

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## 👩‍🚀 Executive Summary

It’s been an invigorating past few weeks for The Graph’s growing ecosystem, which has welcomed many new protocol participants — recently [surpassing the 100,000 Delegator count](https://twitter.com/grt_iq/status/1759985082738323849)! In parallel, Edge & Node has been hard at work shipping protocol and developer experience enhancements. The [Sunrise of Decentralized Data](https://thegraph.com/blog/unveiling-updated-sunrise-decentralized-data/) is rapidly approaching, and we’re here to ensure the data needs of web3’s builders are met at the highest quality level and reliably secured by decentralized infrastructure. Read on for a summarized view into some of the most high-impact recent updates:

## **Notable February Accomplishments:**

### Evolution of The Graph’s underlying tech & protocol:

- The Graph’s underlying protocol made significant advances towards extending itself to many more use cases
  - [Graph Horizon proposal](https://edgeandnode.com/blog/graph-horizon/) updates:
    - The Graph Council expressed support for the brownfield approach for Horizon during [meeting #69](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graph-council-meeting-69/5362).
    - An auditor finished the initial design review of the Horizon architecture.

- A host of on-chain actions were executed for improvements… [GGP-0034: Enable permissionless payers](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0xd4439329c0d44f9d61e777f12d5ab7483114c74d818c556b4c85c02a716cd725), [GGP-0035: Remove delegation parameters cooldown](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0x5964839c90a4bccb625db68d8afa1e632bf4b99d9d8e17ac3539798c935ded25), and [GGP-0031: Bundled GIPs - 0041 Store Dispute Status on Resolution & 0059 Remove Owner Tax](https://snapshot.org/#/council.graphprotocol.eth/proposal/0xdeeb4887b7a3a56c588f0d550a29ba2ffe988517c04ca2e986fc6ece86ce821c).
- Edge & Node engineers have worked on and announced a new version of Graph Node: [v0.34.1](https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-node/releases/tag/v0.34.1)
  - This version addresses issues that caused an increase in data size of `/metrics` endpoint of graph-node
  - It also addresses an issue that caused subgraphs with file data sources to skip non-deterministic errors
  - **Note** : Indexers are advised to skip `v0.34.0` and update directly to `v0.34.1`

### The Graph grows across network adoption and technical onboarding

- Edge & Node’s business development team reports a new all-time high for Network subgraphs published: 1825 (+123 from January)
- On the web3 education and onboarding front, we’ve made significant contributions:
  - The DevRel team ran full-stack dapp development workshops in Italy and Mexico
  - We continued our education of the next generation of builders by presiding over the UPenn Web3 Hackathon
  - We held a plethora of workshops during BUIDLWeek at EthDenver in Colorado — check out [Kevin Jones’ workshop](https://twitter.com/EthereumDenver/status/1762293524714729665)!
  - Finally, we launched the House of Web3 NFT on February 1st and saw 58 NFTs snapped up so far

## What’s Next:

- At the time of this post’s publication, Edge & Node is in full force at ETHDenver. Check out the full list of panels, talks, and workshops covering how The Graph lays the foundation for data on the decentralized internet — [review the ecosystem lineup here on X](https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1761137434299863475).
  - In more event news, Edge & Node will contribute to The Graph’s presence and hackathon education at ETHGlobal London

- We are collaborating with The Graph Foundation to publish a blog on how The Graph supports EIP-4844 (blobs)
- Stay tuned for a new post on The Graph’s blog surrounding [the intersection of The Graph and AI technology](https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1761078206419886549), supported by core dev Semiotic.
- We are working to complete foundational educational content, including a cookbook series on Subgraph Best Practices, a Query Optimization blog post, a full-stack demo project, an ETH Global Guide for The Graph, and 3 videos on the Sunrise of Decentralized Data
- The Graph Studio and Explorer teams are testing several new features for release soon:
  - A free query tier which grants users a number of free queries every month
  - A billing experience redesign for a smoother onboarding, management, and payment experience

- With the help of InfraDAO, we will perform end-to-end tests of the [TAP payment system](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0054-timeline-aggregation-protocol/4405)
- We will finish Studio and Explorer tests for final contributions towards the Sunray phase, before kicking off the Sunbeam phase as described in [Sunrise of Decentralized Data](https://thegraph.com/blog/unveiling-updated-sunrise-decentralized-data/)
- Excitingly, we anticipate an alpha version of the Data Service SDK and the very first alpha iteration of Horizon contracts