# Pinax July 2024 Update

**URL:** <https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-july-2024-update/5926>\
**Category:** Core Team Updates\
**Tags:** pinax\
**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-july-2024-update/5926 "2024-07-26T16:42:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/pinax-july-2024-update/5926/1 "2024-07-26T16:42:47Z")

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## 🎉 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 op (with full blocks) now available.

- Added more hardware for substreams tier1 and tier2.

### Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services

- We published 4 new YouTube videos:
  - [The Graph Espresso Ep5: Monumental Milestone: Sunrise Complete | Let’s Celebrate Decentralized Data](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W91y4I3xdU)
  - [The Graph Espresso Ep6: Integrating Scroll, Linea, BNB & Base | Astar Demo | 6000+ Upgraded Subgraphs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTK6e9HLipA)
  - [Live Demo: Cross-Chain USDC Transfer with Chainlink CCIP | Hack’N Heights Event](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHMFqWFP3E)
  - [Unlocking the Power of Subgraphs: Live Demo with Arturo Castañon | Hack’N Heights Workshop Pt. 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PEwoYZp9Kg)

- We published 1 YouTube short:
  - [Firehose now part of Go Ethereum](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E5BjrhbSz7Q)

- Pinax is continuing to publish summaries of the Indexer Office hours on our blog every week:
  - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #162](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-162/)
  - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #163](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-163/)
  - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #164](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-164/)
  - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #165](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-165/)
  - [The Graph Indexer Office Hours #166](https://blog.pinax.network/events/the-graph-indexer-office-hours-166/)

- We published 7 additional new blog posts with educational and promotional content on The Graph and Firehose & Substreams:
  - [Seven Strong: Pinax Credits Resilience and Determination for Success](https://blog.pinax.network/pinax/seven-strong-pinax-credits-resilience-and-determination-for-success/)
  - [Substreams Builders: James Mulqueeny, Building a Better World with Substreams](https://blog.pinax.network/substreams/substreams-builders-james-mulqueeny-building-a-better-world-with-substreams/)
  - [Witness Blockchain Data Brought to New Life with Substreams Treemap](https://blog.pinax.network/substreams/witness-blockchain-data-brought-to-new-life-with-substreams-treemap/)
  - [Web3 Developers Unite: Highlights from Chengdu Gathering](https://blog.pinax.network/events/web3-developers-unite-highlights-from-chengdu-gathering/)
  - [The Great Blob Rescue: How Pinax and The Graph Saved the Day!](https://blog.pinax.network/pinax/the-great-blob-rescue-how-pinax-and-the-graph-saved-the-day/)
  - [Substreams Sampler: How to Bulk-Load Blockchain Data into ClickHouse](https://blog.pinax.network/substreams/substreams-sampler-how-to-bulk-load-blockchain-data-into-clickhouse/)
  - [Powerful Insights: Semiotic Labs Reveals the Future of AI on The Graph](https://blog.pinax.network/the-graph/powerful-insights-semiotic-labs-reveals-the-future-of-ai-on-the-graph/)

- Our blog is now published in 3 languages: English, French, and Vietnamese.
- Pinax has started a Learning Working Group to help coordinate and consolidate the learning and onboarding experience for new and experienced members of the Graph ecosystem.
- We manned The Graph booth at ETHGlobal in Brussels and produced video recaps of the events:
  - [Open Source AI Summit](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1811060983600713856)
  - [L2con](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1811436279101534593)
  - [The Graph Sunrise Party](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812109774806274475)
  - [ETHGlobal day 1 recap](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812180902950383753)
  - [Zero To Dapp Day](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812262749285630157)
  - [Archway’s Sumo Smackdown](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812502348159193481)
  - [ETHGlobal day 2 recap](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812546517057585500)
  - [MegaETH Labs party](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812584330700738951)
  - [rAAVE](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork/status/1812855401353826630)

- [Supported Chidubem at The Graph related events in Africa](https://x.com/chidubem_w3/status/1814079715658940544).
- Organizing and coordinating “Graph on Campus” w/ Anthony and Iris
  - Pinax in charge of universities in Beijing & Chengdu

- Pinax is supporting the new Vietnamese Community Manager for The Graph
- Our Chinese Chinese community manager, Eleven, is continuing to manage The Graph Chinese communities in Telegram, Discord, and WeChat.
- We continue to support the production of The Graph Builders Office Hours each week.
- We continue to heavily promote The Graph ecosystem on [the Pinax X account](https://twitter.com/PinaxNetwork).

### Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling

- Pinax has developed a [Geo Data Service](https://thegraph.com/explorer/subgraphs/DDKLyfMiZCM4neSvqZeWzHRAgCko81WKJAHrVbFMoHNK?view=Query&chain=arbitrum-one) and deployed it to The Graph testnet.
- Pinax has developed an [EOS tokens subgraph](https://testnet.thegraph.com/explorer/subgraphs/GtaHs37hXdMRFeeMMfshkCxW47WghzWJXaVogbDfF3tQ) and deployed it to The Graph testnet.

## 🚀 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.
- Firehose
  - Re-generate firehose blocks (RPC poller chains)
  - Re-generate substreams cache
  - Generating OP full blocks
  - Setting up Solana
  - Grafana charts for Launchpad

### Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services

- More documentation on Firehose & Substreams.
- More videos and blog content.
- Expand efforts in learning/onboarding working group.
- Solana ecosystem scan and outreach campaign.

### Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling

- Datasets (parquet files)
  - Exploring toolchain.

- Geo
  - Ready to deploy to The Graph mainnet (needs TAP).

- Token API
  - Working on automating parallel processing.
  - Working on documenting plans.
  - Will test with pipeline with Kafka.

- Billing (thegraph.market)
  - Integrating Kafka into SF payment gateway to make this more reliable

- Kubernetes configuration
  - Best practices for management.