Council members value transparency and have agreed to follow Chatham House Rules for sharing meeting notes. On September 8, 2022, The Graph Council held its 35th meeting.
Roster
Council Members (”Members”)
Alex Bourget
Jim Cousins
Yondon Fu
Mable Jiang
Justin Moses
Spencer Noon
Santiago Palladino
Brandon Ramirez
Sebastian Siemssen
Yaniv Tal
The Graph Foundation (”Foundation”)
Eva Beylin, Director, the Foundation
Observer and Note Taker
Observer: Mark Swiderski, for the Foundation
Note taker: Chloe Buffalino, for the Foundation
Council Business
The meeting commenced at 8 a.m. PST.
Meeting
Governance & GIPs
The council discussed a GIP related to the deployment of The Graph contracts on Arbitrum, and the pros and cons of two potential technical approaches for handling cross-chain rewards. Specific GIPs discussed included:
- GIP-0031: An Arbitrum GRT Bridge https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0031-arbitrum-grt-bridge/3305
- GIP-0034: The Graph Arbitrum deployment with rewards distribution using drip mechanism https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0034-the-graph-arbitrum-deployment-with-a-new-rewards-issuance-and-distribution-mechanism/3418
- GIP-0037: The Graph Arbitrum deployment with linear reward distribution minted on L2 https://forum.thegraph.com/t/gip-0037-the-graph-arbitrum-deployment-with-linear-rewards-minted-in-l2/3551
Other Matters
The council discussed ideas to improve the experience for subgraph developers with respect to payment of query fees. The council discussed developer concerns about the sunset of the hosted service, and how it would be critical to ensure quality of service on the decentralized network before the transition. A Foundation representative stated that a proposed budget for 2023/2024 would be forthcoming soon.