# Know Your Indexer #2 | Stake-Machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Know your Indexer\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463 "2021-02-17T20:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ghostym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/ghostym/32/2096_2.png) [@Ghostym](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/Ghostym)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/1 "2021-02-17T20:20:11Z")
![TG- Know your Indexer (Stake-machine)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thegraph1/original/1X/60949ec231c851f1ecb19f2a6e7abb1a90924dab.png) In this opportunity, we introduce you on the stage of “ **Know Your Indexer!** ” the _Stake-Machine team_ who have actively collaborated with informative material, tools and giving support to the community of astronauts who are starting their way to a decentralized ecosystem. We invite you to participate in this open “_Know Your Indexer!_” segment. Ask as many questions as you like to find out who Stake-Machine is and why they decided to work in The Graph Network. If you want to participate, follow the next steps: **1.** Ask your questions in this post by leaving a comment **2.** The second comment will be updated with the “_Highlighted Questions_” (below this introduction) **3.** You can review the other comments and see the answers directly from the Indexer **4.** Don’t forget to share this with your friends and colleagues to learn about the exciting ecosystem of _The Graph_ ! 👨‍🚀 🌠 * * * ## INFORMATION ABOUT THE INDEXER Visit their [website](https://thegraph.stake-machine.com/d/I3Mru_xGk/thegraph-delegator?orgId=1&refresh=5m) to get useful tools Address: **0x1692a8710dcf0dce24bd34c028479176b97ee9ef** Don’t forget to follow the Stake-Machine team on their [Twitter (@StakeMachine)](https://twitter.com/stakemachine). You can also follow up the conversation directly with them on their [forum post](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/stake-machine-indexer-thread/240). ´ * * * > **List of indexers who have participated** > > - [Payne from StakeSquid](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-1-payne-from-stakesquid/1302/2) > - [Stake-machine](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/) - [About the Know Your Indexer](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/about-the-know-your-indexer-category/1291) ---
**Author:** ![Ghostym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/ghostym/32/2096_2.png) [@Ghostym](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/Ghostym)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/2 "2021-02-17T20:20:39Z")
[Link to the highlited questions](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/7) ---
**Author:** ![TumTum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@TumTum](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/TumTum)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/3 "2021-02-20T18:57:57Z")
How many people are on your team and how long have you been working on grafana? ---
**Author:** ![RJT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@RJT](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/RJT)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/4 "2021-02-21T06:16:54Z")
You mention utilizing GraphQL for your original idea of a blockchain explorer. Do you know who created it? I always thought The Graph protocol itself created it. How did you become so well known in the Graph community? ---
**Author:** ![cryptovestor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/cryptovestor/32/29_2.png) [@cryptovestor](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/cryptovestor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/5 "2021-02-21T16:44:05Z")
- What’s your technical background? - How many unique users does your dashboard serve per month? - What’s your over-arching thesis for Web3? ---
**Author:** ![indexer\_payne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/indexer_payne/32/44_2.png) [@indexer\_payne](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/indexer_payne)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/6 "2021-02-23T03:13:58Z")
- How did you hear about The Graph? What determined you to join the mission control testnet? - Do you have a demographic chart for your Dashboard visitors? I’m quite interested to see it. - Are you planning to continue iterating on your dashboard, perhaps adding new features, etc? If so, what would they be? - Wen open sourcing the dashboard sir? ---
**Author:** ![Ghostym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/ghostym/32/2096_2.png) [@Ghostym](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/Ghostym)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/7 "2021-02-24T21:58:26Z")
## Highlited Questions * * * **Ghostym:** > Tell us a bit about you, when did you join the blockchain world and how did you start at the graph? **Stake-machine:** Once I left from hosting company and was looking for something new. One of my colleagues offered to participate in a hackathon that had blockchain involved, rewards were paid in ETH, and that how this journey has begun. * * * **Zuni:** > 1- You mention utilizing GraphQL for your original idea of a blockchain explorer. Do you know who created it? **Stake-machine:** GraphQL was born at Facebook in 2012 and later open sourced in 2015. More details about GraphQL could be found at [https://graphql.org](https://graphql.org) * * * **Ghostym:** > 2- What’s your technical background? **Stake-machine:** I have more than 15 years of experience in the hosting field, passed the path from a support engineer to the product owner, and launched lots of different hosting services from bare-metal with auto-provisioning to cloud computing. * * * **Zuni:** > 3- What’s your over-arching thesis for Web3? **Stake-machine:** Web3 - decentralize all the things with the help of open interconnected data. * * * **Ghostym:** > 4- How did you hear about The Graph? What determined you to join the mission control testnet? **Stake-machine:** As I mentioned before, I had an interest in GraphQL in general and when was looking for available solutions for GraphQL Blockchain Explorers then I found out The Graph. All interesting for me technologies and also incentivized, how not to join? * * * **Zuni:** > 5- Do you have a demographic chart for your Dashboard visitors? **Stake-machine:** Yes, the most traffic is from US and from me 😃 * * * **Ghostym:** > 6- Are you planning to continue iterating on your dashboard, perhaps adding new features, etc? If so, what would they be? **Stake-machine:** The network is still bootstrapping, so dashboards will evolve with the network. We applied for a grant to make it open-source, so everybody can build their own versions of dashboards and have their own copy of historical data. Ideas for features: - comparison charts - dynamics dashboard (weekly/monthly/yearly) Also, there is a lot of refactoring that needs to be made because some decisions were made in a hurry. ---
**Author:** ![louis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/louis/32/2347_2.png) [@louis](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/louis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/8 "2024-02-01T20:39:35Z")
Can you share your social links if you have any other than Twitter’s? @stakemachine ---
**Author:** ![stakemachine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/stakemachine/32/1880_2.png) [@stakemachine](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/stakemachine)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/know-your-indexer-2-stake-machine/1463/9 "2025-01-06T20:24:54Z")
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