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The Graph: a decentralised query protocol for blockchains

The Graph's protocol paper for indexing chain data. Indexers stake on serving a subgraph. Curators signal which subgraphs matter. Consumers pay for queries. The problem is read access, not consensus.

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Authors: Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team
Date: 2020
Publisher: Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0047
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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The Graph's protocol paper for indexing chain data. Indexers stake on serving a subgraph. Curators signal which subgraphs matter. Consumers pay for queries. The problem is read access, not consensus.

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Canonical readingThe Graph study
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Author–date

Tal, Y., Ramirez, B., & the Graph team (2020). The Graph: a decentralised query protocol for blockchains. Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team. https://github.com/graphprotocol/research

BibTeX

@techreport{thegraph2020,
  title = {The Graph: a decentralised query protocol for blockchains},
  author = {Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team},
  url = {https://github.com/graphprotocol/research},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/the-graph}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - The Graph: a decentralised query protocol for blockchains
AU  - Yaniv Tal
AU  - Brandon Ramirez
AU  - the Graph team
PY  - 2020
PB  - Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez and the Graph team
UR  - https://github.com/graphprotocol/research
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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