The Graph and Web3 Take On Google and Web2: The Impending Data Economy Wars

Written by alexmexicotte | Published 2021/08/21
Tech Story Tags: blockchain | cryptocurrency | web3 | ethereum | the-graph | hackernoon-top-story | blockchain-top-story | decentralized-internet

TLDR The Graph is the first Web3 solution to provide a decentralized indexing service for dApps to more easily query data on Layer-1 protocols such as Etherscan and IPFS. Before The Graph, dApp developers would have to scour the protocol block by block to find the data they were looking for, and as you can imagine, this did not create a good user experience. Similar to how Google allows any user query information that is indexed by Google in Web2, the Graph allows users (via dApp interfaces) to query data.via the TL;DR App

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Written by alexmexicotte | Web3 Evangelizer | Fundamental Investor
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/08/21