Indexer Office Hours #59

May 3, 2022 10:00 AM (PDT) in Graph Protocol Discord

👋 Opening Remarks

Recent GRTiQ
- Episode 62: Kent Fourie, Co-Founder & CTO at Graphrica
  - Kent is incredibly passionate about web3, The Graph, and the African continent. Kent has a technical background coupled with a unique ability to explain complex topics and ideas.
  - During the conversation, Kent shares many ideas, from finding his way into web3, his optimism for blockchain and Africa, and Nick & Kent also explore several concepts, such as mining, subgraphs, Graph Grants, and the future of The Graph.
Graph Day Announced! (June 2, 2022) - Wave 2 tickets
- Apply to hack at Graph Hack (June 3 — 5, 2022)

🚁 Repo Watch

The latest updates to important repositories

Major Blockchain Clients:

Full announcement from Firehose about recent changes.
- Erigon v2.0 New release 2022.04.04-alpha :
  - Fixes to improve download speed of the block snapshot files - previous release had a limitation meaning that most users saw download speed limited to ~2Mb/s.
  - Renamed syncmode fast to syncmode full in command line arguments, to avoid confusion
  - Added “ethstats” service
  - First version of “Observer” - p2p network crawler, which is a pre-cursor for an open source node explorer1.
  - RPC method admin_peers to collect information about connected peers, including when there are multiple p2p sentries.
  - additional fixes and networking changes related to bitTorrent
- sfgeth v1.0: New releases :
  - bsc-v1.1.9-fh1
  - geth-v1.10.17-fh1
- sfgeth v2.0: New releases :
  - bsc-v1.1.9-fh2
  - geth-v1.10.17-fh2
  - WARNING! These are not production ready releases.
- Erigon v1.0 No new releases ( last 2022.04.02-beta )
- sfeth: No new releases ( last v0.10.2 )
- Geth: No new releases ( last v1.10.17 )
- Open Ethereum: No new releases ( last v3.3.5 )
- sfnear: No new release ( v0.3.0 )
- sfsolana: No releases yet
Graph Stack:
- Graph Node: No new releases ( last v0.26.0 )
  - https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-node/pull/3490 - [MERGED] assumes that any message with "revert" in it is a deterministic error, to avoid having to whitelist each message
  - https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-node/pull/3483 - [MERGED] uses TryFrom method when decoding Ethereum Firehose blocks and then handles the error by retrying the same block over and over again ( with exponential back-off ) to stop graph-node from completely crashing
- Indexer Service & Agent: New releasev0.19.2-prerelease :
  - changes to indexer-native:
    - ARM based machines can now build the module from source, pre-compiling is still not supported
    - install now uses precompiled binaries
    - upgraded the neon cargo dependency

🔭 Protocol Watch

The latest updates on important changes to the protocol

Contracts Repository: No new updates since last IOH
Network Subgraphs:
- Core network subgraph:
  - v0.15.0 release: Improved fix for manifest parsing (more robust parsing) and extra Epoch query fee data.
- Analytics subgraph: No new releases since last IOH.
- Billing subgraph:
  - v1.0.2 release: Fixed delta values on all entities.
Forum Governance:
- GIP-0031: Arbitrum GRT bridge
- GIP-0028: Subsidized Query Settlement - Comments from Ariel and Brandon regarding the feedback from indexers.
- Rewarded force-close mechanism to eliminate stale allocations - Small comment from Brandon regarding some feedback that Zac brought up.
- Proposal to change the ‘indexer cut’ mechanism - Small comment from Ariel inquiring if there’s still interest in that proposal.
- GIP-0029: Signal Renting
- GIP-0024: Query Versioning - Small comment from Brandon related whether or not a registry is required given all other considerations on the Arbitration Charter (in regards to Arbitrators requirements for infrastructure to properly validate PoIs).
- GIP-0030: Minimum Curation Amount for Indexing Rewards Eligibility - Question from Jim regarding to the previous existence of the same configuration parameter for curation.
Forum Research:
- GIP-0026: Decaying Curation Tax - Small comment by Brandon regarding the specifications of the decay function.
- GIP-0025: Principal-Protected Bonding Curves - More debate regarding a few points brought up by Zac and Juan.

📌 Pinboard

Recurring themes to keep top-of-mind as an indexer

Erigon backwards-incompatible changes to database storage layout https://twitter.com/ErigonEth/status/1511664827839782916

🔥 Fireside Chat

We’ll be joined today by Zac from Edge & Node & Chris from GraphOps to discuss all things:
- Indexer selection algorithm (ISA)
- GIP-0028: Subsidized Query Settlement
  
  GIP-0028: Subsidized Query Settlement
- Broad effort to increase the QoS (quality of service) on the Network