Substreams for Base Network Now Available

StreamingFast is thrilled to announce enhanced support for Base through its Substreams integration! With the extended tracer integration, builders on Base will have access to a deeper data model, including internal calls, storage changes, balance changes in addition to any events.

About Base

The Base blockchain, incubated by Coinbase, is an Ethereum Layer 2 platform designed to offer a secure, scalable, and economical setting for decentralized applications (dapps). Base successfully completed The Graph’s Chain Integration Process (CIP) in June, activating indexing rewards and full network support — meaning developers building on Base benefit from fast and reliable decentralized data powered by The Graph’s global network of Indexers.

Utilizing the Optimism stack, Base employs roll-up technology to boost Ethereum’s efficiency by handling transactions on the Base Network and then bundling them into a single on-chain transaction on Ethereum’s mainnet. This approach lowers gas fees, improves transaction speed, and benefits from the security and decentralization advantages of the Ethereum mainnet.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/substreams-for-base-network-now-available-45ae8

StreamingFast is excited to announce Sei’s integration with Substreams, following the recent Sei integration into The Graph’s Subgraph Studio. This milestone makes Sei the first parallelized EVM blockchain to provide builders with this high-performance indexing solution.

What is Sei?

Sei first launched in 2023 with a Cosmos-based data model as its first version of the blockchain.

Sei’s fast block generation and highly reliable uptime make it a standout competitor in the blockchain space. Sei currently finalizes blocks at 390ms, making it one of the fastest chains in the ecosystem. Additionally, it has seen consistent activity of over 100x the throughput of the fastest EVM L2s, becoming a leader amongst its peers.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/sei-integrates-with-substreams

It is now even easier to get started with Substreams! The latest version of the Substreams CLI offers a brand new version of the substreams init command, which allows you to bootstrap a Substreams project without touching a single line of code!

The Substreams Codegen

The Substreams Codegen (which stands for code generation) is a set of tools to help developers get started with Substreams.

Depending on the kind of Substreams you want to create (e.g. subgraph-based or SQL-based), the Codegen will ask you some questions to auto-generate a fully working project, with a complete developer environment and even remotely compile the project for you.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/substreams-codegen----no-code-tool-to-bootstrap-your-project

Injective is now available on The Graph’s decentralized network through a Firehose and Substreams integration. Beyond the performance benefits, this integration enables Substreams-powered subgraphs for Injective Mainnet, a first of its kind in the Cosmos ecosystem!

With over 6000 subgraphs currently deployed on The Graph Network across more than 50 blockchains, this implementation provides Injective with access to the largest decentralized blockchain indexing protocol. Since its inception in 2018, tens of thousands of developers have utilized The Graph, and now developers working on Injective can access these benefits as well. Through easy and reliable access to indexed data, dApp developers will be able to deliver incredible experiences to their users.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/injective-integrates-with-the-graph-network

Substreams’ new index module brings a major performance boost

For some smart contracts with sparse data, we’ve observed an impressive 50x performance increase!

One of the most important features of Substreams is the ability to select which specific data you want to retrieve from the blockchain. This is possible because you have access to the full and raw data of every block through a Protobuf schema (the Block Protobuf schema for each protocol).

To start developing a Substreams, you import the Block Protobuf, and therefore, you will automatically process all the data of that specific block. While this is powerful, it also comes with a disadvantage: you might not be interested in all the data contained in the block.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/substreams-new-index-module-brings-a-major-performance-boost

Today, The Graph merges with Go Ethereum.

Six years ago, StreamingFast set out to rethink from first principles how people should be processing blockchain data post-consensus. And today marks an important milestone: the new Live Tracer, carefully designed to enable the Firehose technology, makes its way into the core of Go Ethereum in the v1.14.0 release, culminating into the recognition and incorporation of a core piece of our technology and approach.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/the-firehose-gets-upstreamed-into-go-ethereum

TL;DR:

• The rapid adoption of AI underscores the urgent need for decentralized solutions to step in and prevent centralized control among tech giants. The best path forward combines AI and blockchain to ensure data openness and verifiability.
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and knowledge graphs improve LLMs’ accuracy by providing up-to-date and contextually relevant information, with knowledge graphs offering superior data organization and retrieval capabilities.
• Decentralized knowledge graphs are the next big paradigm shift. They can leverage blockchain technology to ensure open access to information, while enhancing trust through verifiability and transparent governance.
• Geo, a pioneering decentralized knowledge graph launching soon on The Graph, exemplifies the integration of blockchain and AI to create a more accessible, reliable, and user-governed internet.
• Information will be organized and generated at an exponential rate thanks to human-in-the-loop verification and AI-powered content generation, ensuring trust and transparency while maintaining a human touch.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/building-a-decentralized-brain-with-ai-crypto

With the rise in activity on Solana, the chain has established itself as one of the most popular projects for builders. Solana’s success can be attributed to Sealevel’s ability to allow multiple transactions to be processed simultaneously without affecting block latency, as well as the extremely low gas fees.

As more projects join the Solana ecosystem, dapps need a fast and reliable way of extracting data from the Solana blockchain. Substreams, one of the upcoming services within The Graph Network’s World of Data Services, allows you to consume Solana data both historically and in real time, with millisecond latency.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/lowering-the-cost-to-use-substreams-on-solana

Substreams sinks allow you to consume blockchain data in a variety of ways. Developed within The Graph, they are StreamingFast’s continuous attempt to make blockchain data more accessible. We are today announcing a new sink: Google Cloud PubSub! Adding to the numerous options to easily create blockchain-based applications!

About Google Cloud PubSub
The Google Cloud PubSub service is an asynchronous messaging system that decouples publishers and consumers of data streams. Publishers send their data to the PubSub platform and consumers can reliably pull from it, optionally filtering on the data they receive.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/new-substreams-sink-google-cloud-pubsub

At StreamingFast, we believe there is a need to find a definite home for codified blockchain data intelligence.

Smart contracts are often a subtle blend of efficiency and expressivity, which means sometimes, for the sake of efficiency, what is logged by the chain isn’t the most expressive — logs and transaction data don’t tell the whole story.

Full article available on https://www.streamingfast.io/blog/shared-intelligence-layer----how-the-graphs-decentralized-intelligence-layer-paves-the-way-for