Summary
Over the past month Pinax has deployed support for Base and Amoy to our Pinax hosted services, deployed our Blobs Subgraph to the network, launched our public blockmeta service, released improvements to our CSV sink and Antelope Token API, achieved a top 10 ranking with our indexer, and published a whole pile of educational and promotional content while participating in a number of live events. All of that and more - read on to learn about it all!
Looking back (what was delivered)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains
- Continued to work on adding support for new chains that are on the roadmap for the Chain Integration Process.
- Base Firehose and Substreams services are now publicly available.
- Amoy RPC, Firehose and Substreams services are now publicly available.
- Continued adding support for chains currently available on the Hosted Service in preparation for the Sunrise of decentralized data, so that our indexer can support Subgraphs being migrated to the network.
- Deployed Arweave Firehose with Substreams support.
- Since the last report, the Pinax indexer has risen from the top 20 to the top 10 of indexers ranked by all-time query fees generated.
- Upgraded to the latest Firehose and implemented universal tier2, which has enabled us to scale to meet peak demand on our services more effectively.
- Improved RPC authentication sidecar.
- Our Blockmeta service is now publicly available.
- Deployed on Kubernetes with Helm Charts.
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- We published two new episodes of The Graph Espresso:
- We published two new YouTube Shorts:
- Pinax is continuing to publish summaries of the Indexer Office hours on our blog every week:
- We published seven additional new blog posts with educational and promotional content on The Graph and Firehose & Substreams:
- Launchpad Office Hours Wraps Up 2023 with a Special Review
- Quickstart Guide: ClickHouse 101
- Presenting the New Faces of The Graph’s Technical Advisory Board
- Substreams Composability: Just Like Building with LEGO Blocks
- Pinax’s Path Forward: Our Agenda for 2024
- Pinax On Campus with The Graph: Sichuan University
- Token Name Service: Your Decentralized Token Tracker on The Graph
- Contributed to 3 events supporting The Graph ecosystem:
- We continue to support the production of The Graph Builders Office Hours each week and recently helped to improve the YouTube video thumbnails and began producing custom POAPs each week.
- Daniel was recently interviewed on an episode of the GRTiQ podcast.
- We continue to heavily promote The Graph ecosystem on the Pinax X account.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- #SaveTheBlobs - EIP-4844 work
- Our EIP-4844 Ethereum Blobs (Beacon chain) Subgraph is now indexed on the network.
- Replayed beacon chains to add clock to earlier blocks.
- Contributed to the publication of a post on The Graph blog outlining how we collaborated with The Graph and StreamingFast to save the blobs.
- We’ve released improvements to our Substreams Sink CSV.
- We’ve released improvements to our Antelope Token API.
Looking ahead (upcoming priorities)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains
- Optimizing our indexer to use multiple shards.
- More RPC nodes for more blockchains to support the chain integration process and the upgrade indexer, in preparation for the sunrise of data services.
- Solana and others
- Test latest Erigon Firehose instrumentation.
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- More documentation on Firehose & Substreams.
- More videos and blog content.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- Develop “substreams init” for Antelope.
- Load testing Substreams data into ClickHouse (including changes to substreams-sink-sql).
- Continue working on CSV sink.
- Additional monitoring for EIP-4844.
- Kubernetes-Launchpad: storage/monitoring/etc rollout.
- Continue to explore hosting rollup chains for Geo.
- Test verifiable Firehose.
- Determine Architecture for Substreams:SQL.
- Collaborating with StreamingFast to bring Firehose & Substreams query fees to the network.