Crypto startup The Graph has introduced that it’ll provide assist for 4 further Layer 1 blockchains: Polkadot, NEAR, Solana and Celo.
The 4 blockchains will be part of The Graph’s at present supported chains Ethereum, IPFS, and POA. Based on the startup, the brand new chains have been chosen primarily based on a number of key traits, which included ease of integration, the variety of builders and purposes in addition to group enter. The Graph’s hosted service noticed queries enhance to over 11 billion in January 2021, in keeping with a press assertion shared with The Block.
“The Graph including assist to those Layer 1 blockchains is a vital milestone within the evolution of Web3,” stated Eva Beylin, director of The Graph Basis. “Builders can select whichever chain most accurately fits their wants and it’ll additionally assist present Ethereum builders construct interoperable purposes.”
The Graph’s indexing protocol goals to arrange all the data on the blockchain in a more efficient way and helps builders of Ethereum-based purposes run their front-end operations. The protocol can be utilized to seek out and retrieve knowledge from Ethereum, just like the best way different indexing instruments can be utilized to do the identical for conventional, centralized databases.
The Graph first announced it had begun exploring offering assist for extra first-layer blockchains, together with Bitcoin, Polkadot and NEAR, in January.
