- What Edge&Node / Subgraph provides
- Edge & Node is the founding core dev team behind The Graph (now one of five core dev teams working on the Protocol). We help push the protocol forward, provide real-time tech support, provide marketing support, among other things to help adoption and evolution of The Graph.
- Subgraphs outsources data indexing and querying to the Graph protocol so that projects don’t need to either run archive nodes themselves as well as build/maintain their APIs, or pay centralized providers which are both much more expensive and susceptible to being shut down (centralization problems).
- The migration to the more decentralized form your protocol is taking
- With 31 chains integrated, most are currently on our centralized product (the hosted service) that will not be around forever. However, ETH mainnet subgraphs can move to the Decentralized network.
- The Decentralized Network is what the Graph is supposed to be, and will be, for all chains across the ecosystem. It’s a protocol that applications need to truly call themselves decentralized.
- When subgraphs move their API endpoints to the decentralized network, there are 162 indexers (and growing) that can provide indexing support so that, if one (or two or ten or more) indexers shut down, the rest can immediately come in to provide support.
- There is better uptime and many performance metrics are as good or better than the hosted service, and upgrades are shipped out often to make it even faster and more reliable.
- Edge&Node has identified the Ampleforth Protocol as a great candidate for early migration
- For early migrant participants, we have allocated a grant pool to help mitigate transition, GRT curation signal (10K GRT recommended), and initial query costs.
- We are offering a 50K GRT grant (30K GRT immediately before or after migration and 20K vesting quarterly over 4 years) until the end of April.
- If migration cannot happen before April 29, we will need to lower the grant amount to 15K to ensure the longevity of the grant pool.
- Either of these grants will be more than sufficient to cover initial curation signal and a long runway of query costs.
- Ampleforth project also gains more decentralization from this migration
- As mentioned, not only is Ampleforth receiving a more effective indexing experience via the network than the hosted service, but it’ll truly be able to champion decentralization for its application, making the application more robust/antifragile. Extremely important in today’s day and age.
- You’re offering to assist in the migration, and provide a grant of GRT tokens to cover protocol costs
- Along with the migration grant, to decrease Ampleforth’s dev resources lift and decrease gas costs, our Solutions Engineers can do most of the steps (steps 1 to 3 below) and then just hand off the keys to Ampleforth after API endpoint migration to the network.
- Steps Edge & Node can do for Ampleforth:
- Deploy the subgraph to the subgraph studio
- Create an API key in the studio and fill it with GRT (on Polygon)
- Publish the subgraph and signal on the network to attract indexers (10K GRT recommended)
- The step that Ampleforth will need to do:
- Migrate API after indexers pick up the subgraph
- Steps Edge & Node can do for Ampleforth:
We hope you all find this proposal attractive and are able to move forward before the deadline to sunset the grant program to the lower level. Thanks for all you do for the space!
Kyle Rojas
kyle@edgeandnode.com