hey all
ive rebuilt the graph academy at learn-thegraph.com. community owned, MIT for the code and CC-BY for the content, source is at GitHub - nightswatchhq/graph-academy-v2: The Graph Academy: community-owned learning site for The Graph. Role-based paths, checked against the Horizon-era protocol, with every number sourced and dated. · GitHub if anyone wants to fix something or write a lesson.
context on why. the old academy was last properly updated in 2022 and it still taught cobb-douglas rebates, L1 curation bonding curves and deploying to the hosted service. all three were true once. the actual problem wasnt that it went stale though, its that nothing in the site could tell you it had. you had no way to tell a page written last month from one written in 2021, they both look equally confident.
so the rebuild is built around that. every protocol number lives in one registry file with its source url, a verbatim quote from that source, and the date a human actually opened the page and read it. no lesson hard codes a value, they all call the registry, so fixing one number updates every page that mentions it. each lesson also carries what it was checked against and a date its due to be checked again, and past that date the page says so in a banner at the top. theres a nightly job that lists whats gone off and it goes red rather than quiet.
44 lessons across seven paths, delegators curators indexers developers app builders governance, plus a foundations one for people new to the protocol. its deliberately not a docs clone and not a dashboard, it explains why the protocol is shaped the way it is and links out to the docs for actual procedures and to explorer and lodestar for anything live. it’s also current with GIP-0089, the innovation allocation takes effect on the 31st so any indexing apr measured before that is describing a bigger pot.
one thing that fell out of sourcing all the numbers that might be more useful to people here than the site itself. reading the docs carefully turned up three places where official pages contradict each other, all read on the 30th.
the tokenomics page still says theres a 0.5% delegation tax which is burned whenever a delegator delegates. horizon removed that parameter entirely and the horizon pages say so, so anyone budgeting for a haircut on deposit is working off the wrong page.
the delegating page says horizon supports up to 1000 simultaneous undelegation requests. the what-changes-with-graph-horizon page says up to 100. nothing practical turns on it but they cant both be right.
the indexing overview says allocations can stay open indefinitely under horizon. the horizon changes page says the shipped indexer stack still recycles them roughly every 28 days at launch for an easier transition. both true about different layers, but you get one or the other depending which page you land on, and an indexer planning capacity needs both.
the site records all three instead of picking a winner and names the contract that would settle each. if someone can read MAX_THAW_REQUESTS off the deployed HorizonStaking id happily update the registry and credit you.
what id actually like most is subject matter reviewers. every lesson stamp currently has an empty reviewers field because nobody has verified them except me, and id rather that be visible than fake it. if you index, delegate, curate or build on the data services and youd read one page in your area and tell me where im wrong, that’s the most useful thing anyone could do with it right now.
its beta, rough edges expected :pepeD: