I'm incredibly excited to welcome @rodventures as the new CEO of Edge & Node, effective immediately. Rodrigo has a deep appreciation for the past decisions that have driven The Graph's success and a strong vision for how the protocol should evolve in the future.

It's also notable that this is all happening post the era of the three original Co-Founders of The Graph being involved in day-to-day. I'm super inspired by The Graph's next generation of leaders and can't think of a better testament to the ecosystem being in good hands.

And congrats to @lutterkort, @yodataz and too many others to list on the Edge & Node team for all the hard work in getting Amp (as well as Ampersend!) launched in less than a year, in time for Devconnect. Reminds me of our execution velocity in the early days of The Graph.

I take my hat off to @leoyvens at E&N whose brainchild Amp originally is. As well to @rodventures (less than a year as CEO and already two massive product launches!) and CTO @thefubhy for making such a bold bet on the future of The Graph.

This takes courage, for two reasons: - To avoid the sunk cost fallacy on the time and effort that has spent on the previous solution. - To be different, and avoid pattern matching to the off-the-shelf tech everyone else is using just because it's "proven"

After amassing many such tradeoffs, sometimes the only path forward is a clean break: Architecting from first principles a solution that is optimized for your use case, with building blocks that are powerful yet unopinionated enough to be composed into something completely new.

For example, with subgraphs we had to reconcile the completely different consistency models of blockchains and off-the-shelf SQL databases. This meant tons of bookkeeping pushed into the DB that slowed the performance of every read/write, just so we could handle block reorgs.

...as you have to introduce ever increasing workarounds, tradeoffs and glue-code complexity in order to fit a square peg into a round hole. Eventually tradeoffs become so numerous that they prevent you from building the best possible product.

Frameworks, or similarly complex "black box" technologies like PostgreSQL are fantastic when you are operating within the set of conditions anticipated by the creators. But when you hit the limits of those technologies, there is a point of diminishing then negative returns...

This is in contrast to simply wrapping existing batteries-included database technologies as most blockchain data providers on the market do today. It's a differentiated response to the classic library vs framework dilemma, as it pertains to blockchain data.

This. I think people are sleeping on the potential of impact of Amp, and how different it is from everything that has come before it. Amp is a database architected from the ground-up with blockchains in mind.

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“The Graph is the open source tool, run by a Foundation, that we use the heck out of in our work. @Datanexus is the team that we’ve been using to extract that value of the Graph.” @The_DTCC “used to spend years developing these connectors to actually extract the information off

Went through the code for Amp that @edgeandnode built for @graphprotocol and it’s insane. Custom database w/ DataFusion for verifiable transformations using Arrow, Parquet & SQL. Blazing fast. Parallelized. Modular. It took a while but @graphprotocol did it again.

The *UPDATED* AgentFi Landscape just dropped. Looks like I'll need to release these quarterly with how fast the tech is changing with AI agents. Agentic Finance unites autonomous agents with programmable money on DeFi protocols to create a whole new genre of finance. What we see

As the value of onchain assets increase, the demand for data and thus the value of that data increases proportionally - but only if you can rapidly filter, transform and use that data to drive decisions. This is why The Graph is so well positioned for this next wave.

Just got to Buenos Aires 🇦🇷early for Devconnect! Palermo is pure magic. Incredible weather ☀️ warm people 😍 endless cafés ☕️ @graphprotocol & @edgeandnode teams are SO ready for this week. Our baddie CTO, Sebastian will be showing you Amp in his prezi, and @rodventures will

Very excited to partake on @graphprotocol council! There is so much to look forward to and we’re going to be in a great spot to execute on it!

Did you miss yesterdays stream? Oh was it EPIC. Don't worry! You can catch all of the replays on YouTube. Grab some popcorn and dive in! 🍿 Talks from @jordan0ellis, @pcarranzav, @kleffew94, @marco_derossi, @programmer, @rodventures and @cryptomastery_! 🔥

The Graph is going to @chainlink’s SmartCon 2025! This event brings together blockchain, TradFi, and other institutional leaders with The Graph Foundation and core dev @edgeandnode, are Platinum sponsors ⚡ At SmartCon, The Graph will announce a new breakthrough product that

The 🐐 @edgeandnode + @coinbase + @Google = accelerating the agentic future. 📷 It’s arriving faster than we can blink, and we can’t wait to share what’s next 🔜