The Graph is pioneering a future where web3 is not just a platform, but a living, breathing ecosystem fueled by the principles of autonomy and limitless collaboration. Powered by the belief that technology should be resilient, decentralized, and designed for individuals, The Graph champions a censorship-resistant internet supported by unhindered innovation.
Building the internet of the future means eliminating all centralized points of failure to protect the web from censorship, monopolies, and data silos. The Graph ecosystem shows the world that the many, not just the few, can coordinate incentives so that individuals and small groups can benefit from transforming society and the world for the better.
The Graph invites every visionary, every builder, and every believer to join the journey to make The Graph the internet’s unbreakable foundation of open data.
Back in 2018, the hosted service began as a stepping stone to bootstrap the ecosystem around The Graph - a temporary measure on the journey to a fully decentralized network. Think of it as a free version of The Graph Network: Anybody could deploy any subgraph indexing any smart contract event on the hosted service and it would index that information and serve queries for free. And it worked brilliantly: the initial core devs of The Graph kicked off an entire movement in indexing and querying, establishing subgraphs as the industry standard for reading blockchain data, and finding product-market-fit.
Now it is time to fulfill what the ecosystem set out to do six years ago. To become an unstoppable, uncensorable, indispensable backbone of the entire blockchain tech stack. And by that, powering the internet of the future. This is the Sunrise to The Graph’s decentralized network.
The Graph empowers dapp developers to own their full tech stack, decentralizing the data layer so they have full control and agency. Reading data from the blockchain is hard. You need to digest the entire blockchain, store it in a database and index it, making it searcheable. Dapp developers either build that capacity themselves (which is costly and time-consuming) or they rely on somebody else to do it. If that party fails or acts maliciously, their dapp breaks. This is why developers need a decentralized reading layer to power their dapp. Enter The Graph. Secure, redundant, censorship-resistant and free.
Without a decentralized indexing layer like The Graph, a dapp is not decentralized and without The Graph’s Decentralized Network, it is not trustless. Instead, you rely on a “trusted” third party to tell you which data from the blockchain is correct. With this move away from the hosted service and toward the Decentralized Network, we get one step closer to fully decentralized, but there is much more to come.
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