Summary
It’s been a productive month for the Pinax team with RPCs for 5 additional blockchains being added to our suite of services, a brand new Pinax app launched for managing Firehose and Substreams services, our knowledge team tripling their output from the previous month with 10 new blog posts, 5 Indexer Office Hours summaries, and 2 new Substreams Unleashed videos – and more!
Looking back (what was delivered)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains
- Now serving RPCs for 5 additional blockchains:
- Avalanche
- Scroll
- Moonbeam
- Decimal
- Kava
- Polygon Firehose blocks fixed
- Upgraded to firehose-ethereum v2 for all supported chains
- Conducted more discussions with chains seeking The Graph integration through the chain integration process
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- We’ve published 2 new Substreams unleashed videos:
- Pinax is continuing to publish summaries of the Indexer Office hours on our blog every week:
- We published 10 additional new blog posts on The Graph, Firehose & Substreams educational and promotional content:
- Substreams: Revolutionizing Blockchain Data Processing
- An Insightful Recap of DappCon 2023
- The Graph’s Next Chapter: A Layperson’s View of a World Of Data Services
- Pinax On Campus with The Graph Foundation: Chengdu University
- Breaking Down Barriers: Rust for Substreams Developers
- What Are Indexer Office Hours?
- A Close Look at The Graph’s Technical Advisory Board
- Join the Pinax Community Discord Server!
- Simplify Real-Time Blockchain Analytics with ClickHouse
- Introducing the New Pinax App, a Better Way to Manage Your Firehose and Substreams Services
- Julien presented in Builder Office Hours on ClickHouse sinks for Substreams.
- Our team participated in The Graph Horizon Reddit AMA and was very active promoting the new roadmap, along with all of Pinax’s original content on Twitter/X.
- We launched our new Pinax public Discord server to support developers and indexers with Firehose & Substreams questions.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- We launched a brand new version of the Pinax app to improve the experience for data consumers leveraging the Pinax Firehose and Substreams services.
- We’ve begun experimenting with hosting ClickHouse databases for the purposes of SQL as a data service on The Graph.
- Work has begun to collaborate with StreamingFast to redesign and rebuild the Substreams.dev UI.
- Drastically improved the performance of our Substreams ERC20 token API.
Looking ahead (upcoming priorities)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains
- More RPC nodes for more blockchains to support the chain integration process and the upgrade indexer.
- Align with InfraDAO on the onboarding and documentation process for new chains.
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- Exploring opportunities to collaborate with AdvocatesDAO, IndexerDAO, and BuildersDAO to relaunch The Graph Academy.
- More documentation on Firehose & Substreams.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- Kubernetes-Launchpad: substreams tier1/tier2 testing.
- Work with GraphOps on Kubernetes deployment for Firehose.
- More Substreams and loading data into ClickHouse with webhooks + API.
- Clickhouse data loading for SQL.
- Updating Antelope Firehose test cases.