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Decentralised indexing protocol with subgraph queries
The Graph is a decentralised indexing protocol where each dataset (a subgraph) is written, deployed and queried independently rather than read off a pre-built schema. Queries are GQL against indexer nodes, billed in GRT, with a hosted gateway in front. The model means data shape is owned by whoever wrote the subgraph: a missing field, a stale index or a deprecated mapping is on the publisher, not on a central API team. Chain coverage tracks what indexers have chosen to support, which leans heavily EVM and lags on newer L2s and non-EVM networks until someone publishes a subgraph for them. The two reasons teams move off are the cost of running a private subgraph at production load, and the operational burden of debugging an indexer regression on a chain the public hosted service does not cover.
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The Graph's moat is a decentralized indexing network. Independent Indexers stake GRT and serve GraphQL queries against Subgraphs, which are custom indexing manifests deployed per contract or per protocol. Substreams sits underneath as a parallelized firehose for real-time and historical block data. The subgraph surface officially supports 60+ chains including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Base. The Token API, built by Pinax on top of Substreams, is a REST product covering 25 chains at last count (Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Bitcoin, Blast, BNB, Celo, Ethereum, Gnosis, HyperEVM, Linea, Litecoin, MegaETH, Optimism, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, Solana, Soneium, Unichain, Vaulta, WAX, X Layer, zkSync, Zora among others). For a chain-coverage benchmark on market data, The Graph is broad through the subgraph route but the coverage is contingent: each chain and each protocol needs a maintained subgraph that returns the requested market fields. Teams win when they own their data model; teams that want turnkey market data on every long-tail chain often reach for an aggregator instead.
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