Summary
Happy New Year! Along with a short break over the holidays, the Pinax team has deployed Firehose and RPC services for 5 new chains, published 4 new videos and 10 blog posts, onboarded 3 new students to our intern program to learn Firehose & Substreams, and have begun experimenting with developing Substream-powered indexing tech for inscriptions.
Looking back (what was delivered)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph & to support protocol integration with new chains
- Now serving Firehose/RPCs for 5 additional blockchains:
- EOS-EVM substreams (using RPC poller)
- Bitcoin
- Optimism
- Zkatana
- Osmosis Firehose live again
- Updated Antelope Firehose to v5.0.0-rc3+ binaries after completing battlefield testing
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- We’ve published 2 new Substreams unleashed videos:
- Published a polished recording of The Graph community meetup we co-hosted with Deutsche Telekom and Graph AdvocatesDAO:
- Published a video walkthrough of our new Pinax app for managing Pinax Firehose & Substreams services:
- Pinax is continuing to publish summaries of the Indexer Office hours on our blog every week:
- We published 7 additional new blog posts on The Graph, Firehose & Substreams educational and promotional content:
- Revolutionize Data Routing with the Substreams-Sink Library
- Breaking! Pinax Now Supports Firehose and Substreams for EOS, WAX, Telos & UX
- Reddit AMA Deep Dive: Unpacking The Graph’s Vision for a New Web3 Era
- Why Choose Messari Subgraphs for Web3 Data Analysis?
- How to Get Started with Substreams-Sink Library
- A Year in Highlights: Pinax’s Achievements in 2023
- Simplifying Substreams: A Quick Guide to Using WebSockets for Real-Time Data Transfer
- 3 new students have joined our intern program and are being trained 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
- We’re continuing to collaborate with StreamingFast to redesign and rebuild the Substreams.dev UI
- Experimented with building some new tools for indexing inscriptions on Bitcoin and EOS EVM using Substreams:
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.
- Ronin
- Arbitrum-one (classic + nitro)
- Astar (rpc poller)
- 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.
- 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
- Determine priorities for Pinax in “world of data services.”
- Kubernetes-Launchpad: substreams tier1/tier2 testing.
- Work with GraphOps on Kubernetes deployment for Firehose with alerting.
- Develop more robust and general-purpose Inscriptions API, powered by Substreams.
- Adding Substreams support for Arweave firehose (port to firehose-core).
- RPC authentication.
- More Substreams and loading data into ClickHouse with webhooks + API.
- Clickhouse data loading for SQL.