Turbocharging the Uniswap v3 subgraph with Substreams

Introduction

Subgraphs are great for accessing blockchain data, they are simple to use and they provide an out-of-the-box GraphQL API, which is pretty useful in front-end applications. However, despite the many benefits of using subgraphs, one limitation can be the time it takes to index large smart contracts.

This is where Substreams comes in. Substreams was developed for The Graph Network to parallelize the data indexing process, so that the computation power can scale to match the ever-growing dataset. Although Substreams can work independently from subgraphs, it is also one of the possible data sources for a subgraph (known as a Substreams-powered subgraph).

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