Indexer Office Hours #62

May 24, 2022 5:00 PM in Graph Protocol Discord

👋 Opening Remarks

Recent GRTiQ
- GRTiQ Podcast: 65 Vanessa Grellet
  - Recently moved to Aglaé Ventures
  - Previous ConsenSys team member
  - In the episode, Vanessa shares her perspective on the crypto adoption curve, her approach to due diligence and identifying Web3 projects to invest in, and her ideas about The Graph and the future of Web3.
Graph Day Announced! (June 2, 2022) - All tickets are now only $100! Perfect time to grab some if you haven’t already!
- Apply to hack at Graph Hack (June 3 — 5, 2022)

🚁 Repo Watch

The latest updates to important repositories

Major Blockchain Clients:

Full announcement from Streaming Fast about recent changes.
- Erigon v2.0 New releases:
  - 2022.05.05-alpha :
    - Reduced network traffic consumption by the header downloader.
    - Reduced memory footprint of bor consensus code, by limiting the cache of heimdal spans to 128 entries.
    - New feature in sentry - nat stun mode for detecting node’s IP address using STUN protocol.
    - Various fixes for POS transition and hive tests.
    - Reduced memory footprint of using block snapshots (for Ethereum mainnet - by about 1.8 Gb) by using more compact Huffman decoding tables.
    - Fixed eth_feeHistory to be able to work with block snapshots.
  - 2022.05.07-alpha :
    - Fixed POS transition that was broken in the previous release.
    - Fixed panics during header downloader from previous release.
    - Reduced network traffic consumption by the header downloader. Eliminated another cause for stuck header download.
    - Allowed block snapshots for bor (mumbai testnetand mainnet), but not enabled by default yet.
- sfgeth v1.0: No new releases ( last bsc-v1.1.10-fh1 , polygon-v0.2.16-beta.2-fh1 )
- sfgeth v2.0: No new releases ( last bsc-v1.1.10-fh2 , polygon-v0.2.16-beta.2-fh2 )
  - WARNING! These are no 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 )
- Indexer Service & Agent: No new releases ( v0.19.2-prerelease )

🔭 Protocol Watch

The latest updates on important changes to the protocol

Forum Governance:
- GRP-0001 Decorator Hooks, Cron Jobs and Initialisation Handlers
Forum Research: No new updates since last IOH
Contracts Repository:
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/573 - [MERGED] chore: cleanup unused code
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/570 - [MERGED] fix: Update hardhat to 2.9.5 to fix console hanging
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/575 - [WIP] Add GraphCurationToken to addressbook
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/574 - [WIP] Verify contracts with sourcify
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/572 - [WIP] Rework graph config files
- https://github.com/graphprotocol/contracts/pull/571 - [DRAFT] Arbitrum devnet with rewards distribution
Network Subgraphs:
- Core network subgraph: No new releases since last IOH.
- Analytics subgraph: No new releases since last IOH.
- Billing subgraph: No new releases since last IOH.

🧠 Open Discussion

All the action is happening in the fireside chat below ⬇️

🔥 Fireside Chat

The Graph R&D Roadmap Series
- We are introducing a 5-part series covering the Graph R&D roadmap in detail.
- We’re planning on introducing special guests to cover each the 5 working group topics:
  - Data & APIs
  - SNARK Force
  - Protocol Economics
  - Protocol & Network Operations
  - Indexer Experience
The Graph R&D Roadmap