Guide to The Graph: the Google of Blockchain

In the last few months, the token of a very special and unique protocol has started to climb the rankings by market capitalization reaching the top 50.

We are talking about The Graph, which is a global indexing protocol and API to organize blockchain data and make it easily accessible to users. Developers can use Graph Explorer to search, find and publish all the public data they need to build decentralized applications, or DApps. Indexing refers to the simplicity and speed of finding data within the Blockchain.

The Graph network makes it possible to build decentralized applications that run entirely on public infrastructure. The platform developed by Yaniv Tal, Jannis Pohlman and Brandom Ramirez in late 2017 is among the first decentralized indexing and querying software available on the market. Since launching on the mainnet in December 2020, the platform has already reached the milestone of one billion queries, or requests, causing the price of the token associated with it to skyrocket as well. Let’s try to discover how one of the most “sui generis” protocols of the Decentralized Finance world works.