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Solving The Problem of Accessing On-Chain Data

Jun 7, 2021Ā ā‹…Ā  11 min read

One advantage of open and decentralized protocols is that they are public: everyone can see what's happening on the networks. However, accessing and using this public data can be more complex than it appears. Today we have two options: going through all the history of the blockchain by yourself (e.g. running a full node), or querying a block explorer like Etherscan. However, the Graph aims to solve that through a decentralized query protocol.

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