Hey all, I’m excited to share this month’s Firehose and Substreams updates!
July was a major month of progress for Substreams and Firehose. We launched Katana Substreams, expanding The Graph’s Firehose multi-chain coverage. We rolled out a revamped pricing and billing model on thegraph.market, making it easier for users to understand, manage, and scale their usage. On the adoption side, we published a new case study with Top Ledger, showcasing how enterprise users are leveraging Substreams for scalable indexing in production. Finally, the team has begun the work required to seamlessly onboard a second provider to thegraph.market, a milestone that will help strengthen Substreams on the network.
These milestones underscore our focus on improving developer experience, growing adoption, and strengthening The Graph’s infrastructure for the next wave of builders.
Looking back
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Pricing & Billing Revamp – Released the new billing model and pricing experience, now live on thegraph.market
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Katana Launch – Firehose and Substreams support for Katana went live announcement
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Top Ledger Case Study – Published a new case study showing how Top Ledger leverages Substreams for enterprise indexing read here
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Tier 1 User Onboarding – Successfully onboarded a new high-profile DeFi user to Substreams, look out for announcements in the near future
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Ethereum RPC Enhancements – Added support for native eth_getBalance() to expand developer use cases
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NEAR Hardfork Support – Delivered updates to handle the recent NEAR network upgrade, ensuring Firehose compatibility
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Relational Mappings – Delivered improvements and documentation updates for Clickhouse mappings driving towards a stable release of this sink
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Badger DB Research – Conducted research on a Badger DB sink for large scale ingestion and storage of Solana data
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Substreams Stability – UNDOs no longer risk causing Substreams with eth_calls to stall
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Solana Geyser Improvements – Bumped Solana Geyser version and increased log truncation size to improve usability
Looking ahead
For August, here are some of our goals to continue driving momentum within The Graph:
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Injective Mainnet Launch – Align on mainnet launch schedule, make Firehose and Substreams endpoints live, and bring support for Subgraphs through the graph cli
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Indexer Onboarding Flow to thegraph.market – Complete work to onboard the first non-core dev indexer, including improvements to the auth plugin for external providers and secure JWT metadata sharing to support user rate limits
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thegraph.market Enhancements – Support organizational account management as well as continuous improvement to UI/UX
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Flashblocks on OP-stack – Advance work on reth instrumentation due diligence to support Flashblocks
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SQL Sink Packaging – Package the Substreams SQL Sink directly within Substreams codegen for easier adoption