# Pinax February 2024 Update **URL:** https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-february-2024-update/5329 **Category:** Core Team Updates **Tags:** pinax **Created:** [February 14, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-february-2024-update/5329 "2024-02-14T00:24:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![keyes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.thegraph.com/keyes/32/2671_2.png) [@keyes](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/keyes) #### Post date: [February 14, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-february-2024-update/5329/1 "2024-02-14T00:24:55Z")
## 👩‍🚀 Summary This month we continued to add support for new chains, explored new data services, released a number of improvements to our supporting libraries, and published a number of Firehose and Substreams examples, along with educational blog posts and videos. ## 🎉 Looking back (what was delivered) ### Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains - Re-generated merged-blocks for the “RPC poller” EVM chains - Upgraded all (relevant) Firehose to new block format - Ronin synced - Goerli Firehose updated to latest ### Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services - We published our first YouTube Shorts: - [Why Centralized APIs Fail](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lPMQHRzgSms) - [Next-Level #web3 Data Indexing](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MP0TMfX8t9o) - Pinax is continuing to publish summaries of the Indexer Office hours on our blog every week: - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #140](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-140/) - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #141](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-141/) - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #142](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-142/) - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #143](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-143/) - We published 4 additional new blog posts with educational and promotional content on The Graph and Firehose & Substreams: - [Enhancing Ethereum: The Graph’s Answer to EIP-4444](https://blog.pinax.network/events/enhancing-ethereum-the-graphs-answer-to-eip-4444/) - [Explore the Substreams-Based Atomic API](https://blog.pinax.network/substreams/explore-the-substreams-based-atomic-api/) - [University Students Gain Hands-On Web3 Experience with Pinax](https://blog.pinax.network/pinax/university-students-gain-hands-on-web3-experience-with-pinax/) - [Building Your Own ERC-20 API: A Complete Guide](https://blog.pinax.network/substreams/building-your-own-erc-20-api-a-complete-guide/) ### Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling - Launched public Pinax RPC service for the following chains: - BNB (and Chapel testnet) - Ethereum (and Goerli, Holesky, and Sepolia testnets) - Polygon (and Mumbai testnet) - We’ve begun to explore the feasibility of operating Optimism rollups that post to Celestia as a potential Geo data service - Pinax Substreams now supports authenticating by passing X-Api-Key in the Header of the gRPC request, without the need for creating JWT anymore (saves one less step in the auth process). - [We’ve updated the Substreams for Node.js and web library](https://github.com/substreams-js/substreams-node/releases/tag/v0.6.0) to support this new authentication method. - Released a [Firehose Go Example](https://github.com/pinax-network/firehose-examples-go) - this is an example Golang application on how to stream or fetch blocks from Firehose and transform the chain agnostic block wrapper into a chain-specific block type. - Released a [Substreams Next.js example](https://github.com/pinax-network/substreams-nextjs-example) - Published [new release v0.8.0 of substreams-webhook](https://github.com/pinax-network/substreams-sink-webhook/releases/tag/v0.8.0) - a significant performance improvement replacing tweetnacl with @noble/curves - We’re continuing to collaborate with StreamingFast to redesign and rebuild the [Substreams.dev](https://substreams.dev) UI ## 🚀 Looking ahead (upcoming priorities) ### Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains - Preparing to launch our Substreams endpoint for Arweave - More RPC nodes for more blockchains to support the chain integration process and the upgrade indexer. - Solana and others ### 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. - More Substreams Unleashed 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 - Limiting parallel jobs for Substreams - Develop “substreams init” for Antelope - Understanding performance and operations requirements for loading blockchain data into ClickHouse - Kubernetes-Launchpad: storage/monitoring/etc rollout - Try Erigon Firehose instrumentation for Gnosis - Update ERC-20 Substreams for “light” Firehose blocks - Determine architecture for Substreams:SQL