CanonThe Graph
The Graph: paper, then practice.
The Graph indexes chain data so a query does not have to replay it. An index can be wrong, late, or shaped by whoever pays the indexers.
Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team. 2020. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.
- The paper. The Graph's protocol paper for indexing chain data. Indexers stake on serving a subgraph. Curators signal which subgraphs matter. Consumers pay for queries. The problem is read access, not consensus.
- Data from outside execution.
- Data layer.
What this chain does not claim
It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: Graph research papers.