The Graph Upgrades Tooling for Solana Devs to Accelerate Dapp Deployment

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, California, September 16th, 2024]

The Graph Network significantly upgraded its support for the Solana network, building upon its previous integration. The Solana developer community now has access to better data tools, more ways to get started accessing indexed Solana data (including using pre-built solutions by notable teams such as Messari and Top Ledger).

The upgrades offer an enhanced development experience for Substreams-powered subgraphs (SpS) with new codegen tools, usable both remotely and locally. Developed by StreamingFast,  a core engineering team in The Graph ecosystem, the dev-environment includes tools to help developers quickly scaffold an end-to-end Substreams project. This means unprecedented flexibility to Solana development. For developers well-versed in Substreams, the new tooling enables quick and easy syncing.

Developers can start building on Solana using The Graph even without Substreams knowledge. The new tooling also empowers developers to access Solana data without ever touching Substreams or Rust. This means developers can easily work with Solana data using tooling that best suits their skills and project requirements.

Other notable enhancements are the Solana Substreams modules developed by Top Ledger and StreamingFast, and multiple Substreams and Substreams-powered subgraphs developed by Messari. Developers will also gain access to several ready-to-use Substreams-powered subgraphs, including UNCX and Orca Whirlpool.

“The meteoric rise of developer and user activity on Solana has created a huge demand for open, decentralized data that is true to the values of web3. The Graph’s latest tooling upgrade and enhanced support will ensure the Solana community can get even more value out of web3’s decentralized data layer,” said Nick Hansen, Head of Growth, The Graph Foundation.

Solana’s technology, particularly its high transaction speed and low fees, have made it a preferred choice for many decentralized applications (dapps) and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. With the Solana ecosystem growing rapidly, the demand for efficient data indexing and querying is skyrocketing.

The Graph’s enhanced support for Solana equips developers with powerful tools to build decentralized applications (dapps) and analyze on-chain data more efficiently. It now offers lower costs, a more efficient data source, and an improved programmable indexing stack that’s easier to use, faster to index, and provides a historical cache of Solana blocks that are 25% the size of a full-block.

These improvements are part of The Graph’s mission to support the multi-chain future and foster interoperability in web3. The upgraded tools will be particularly useful to Solana developers, data analysts working with Solana data, and the broader web3 community interested in data solutions.

The Graph Network remains committed to providing web3 developers with a decentralized data network with over 9,000 subgraphs. It deprecated its free hosted service in June, transitioning to a decentralized network to empower developers and the entire web3 ecosystem by ensuring data autonomy and decentralization.

ABOUT THE GRAPH

The Graph is the source of data and information for the decentralized internet. As the original decentralized data marketplace that introduced and standardized subgraphs, The Graph has become web3’s method of indexing and accessing blockchain data. Since its launch in 2018, tens of thousands of developers have built subgraphs for dapps across 70+ blockchains – including  Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Celo, Fantom, Gnosis, and Avalanche.

As demand for data in web3 continues to grow, The Graph enters a New Era with a more expansive vision including new data services and query languages, ensuring the decentralized protocol can serve any use case – now and into the future.

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The Graph Foundation oversees The Graph Network. The Graph Foundation is overseen by the Technical Council. Edge & Node, StreamingFast, Semiotic Labs, The Guild, Messari, GraphOps, Pinax and Geo are eight of the many organizations within The Graph ecosystem.