Summary
This month the Pinax team ramped up our efforts on education and engagement for indexers and developers in The Graph ecosystem. We launched our new blog, focused on spreading awareness and resources to support adoption of Firehose, Substreams, and The Graph. We kicked off efforts with the Doc Squad to restructure and improve The Graph docs, starting with a survey seeking community feedback. And we’ve begun assisting with production of the Builder’s Office Hours.
On the development front, we released a bunch of open source Subsbtreams and sinks, which we hope will be useful both for their intended use cases, as well as serve as examples for developers building Substreams for new use cases.
On the operations side, we’ve continued to expand our hosting capacity and service offerings to more chains.
Looking back (what was delivered)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph
- Holesky Firehose was launched the day after testnet launch.
- BNB Firehose is handling more load.
Provide infrastructure to support protocol integration with new chains
- New chains have been synced.
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- New blog launched, first 5 articles live and more scheduled to come over the coming weeks. Focus will be on Firehose & Substreams, The Graph, as well as Pinax updates and other articles of interest to web3 builders.
- Kevin joined Doc Squad calls last month, involved in discussions with DS team to restructure The Graph docs. Currently seeking community feedback via a survey and Indexer Office Hours presentations. Will use this plus Graph docs search data to prioritize and plan any new initiatives.
- Presented Firehose & Substreams at The Graph Advocates Learning Series.
- Builders Office Hours production:
- Developed The Graph branded video overlays and media assets for office hours video recordings.
- Pinax production team has been recording and editing the office hours for publication on The Graph YouTube channel and assisting with moderation and role assignments in the Discord server.
- Developed a The Graph branded Presenter’s Guide for Screen Sharing in Community Meetings.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- Developed a bunch of open source Substreams and sinks:
- Substreams Sink Webhook - a tool that allows developers to pipe data extracted from a blockchain to Webhook.
- Substreams Sink WebSockets - a tool that allows developers to pipe data extracted from a blockchain to WebSockets.
- ERC-20 token supply Substream - extends ERC-20 Balance Changes with token supply.
- ERC-20 Contracts Substream - extends ERC-20 Balance Changes with Token Contract information.
- AtomicMarket sales powered by Substreams - retrieve data to build market volume charts for collections of NFTs in the AtomicMarket ecosystem on EOS and WAX.
- 3 students onboarded for fall internship term, working on Substreams-based projects.
- Deployed a new quick-start guide for each chain we support to make it easier for developers to get up and running with our Firehose & Substreams endpoints.
- Conducting user testing on Google Sheets sink for accounting use case.
Looking ahead (upcoming priorities)
Provide infrastructure for chains currently supported on The Graph’s hosted service & Subgraph Studio
- Working on data centre expansion.
Provide infrastructure to support protocol integration with new chains
- Run more blockchains.
- New chain integration process refinement and pricing.
Education, onboarding & community support for Indexers and Developers working with new data services
- Yaro will provide support at The Graph booth at Web Summit in Lisbon, mid-Nov.
- More Firehose & Substreams documentation and blog content.
- The Graph docs needs assessment.
Collaboration with core developers and new consumers on designing and testing new data services while augmenting the Indexer experience with new tooling
- Exploring opportunities to contribute to substreams.dev.
- Deploying Firehose & Substreams endpoints for Antelope chains (10 chains including testnets).
- Public RPC endpoint metering.
Provide operational support
- Work with GraphOps on Kubernetes deployment for Firehose.