Blockchain indexing protocol The Graph has launched a new implementation that enables access to historical data on the Bitcoin network, while also advancing its multi-chain expansion, integrating support for more than 40 blockchains.
The new Bitcoin Firehose implementation, which was recently released by the StreamingFastio development team, allows blockchain developers to access and explore historical data on the Bitcoin blockchain, directly, simply and quickly, through The Graph’s distributed network of indexers.
This integration was released alongside the BRC-20 Subgraph GraphQL API in order to Improve data accessibility for developers working on new applications and solutions in the blockchain ecosystem.
According to StreamingFastio’s post on X (formerly Twitter), the new implementation was made possible by the integration of Firehose and Substreams. The post also highlights that the implementation represents an important milestone for the growth and development of The Graph, which is expanding its ecosystem with support for multiple blockchains.
Support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Fantom, Celo and many more
Support for the most robust and valued Bitcoin blockchain on the market will enable blockchain developers to build innovative applications on The Graph using a Bitcoin toolkit that integrates a BRC-20 subgraph, to query BRC-20 data with live GraphQL on The Graph Network, as well as the Bitcoin Firehose API, which provides a set of functions to monitor and interact with network and cryptocurrency data.
The Graph developers highlighted that with the integration of Bitcoin support, the history of the blockchain, the first in the world, “it is recorded and made easily accessible” through its distributed network of blockchain indexers.
The Graph integrated support for Bitcoin just days after the expansion of its ecosystem in the blockchain industry was announced. The developers of this indexing protocol announced in mid-March that they had integrated support for Bitcoin. Support for over 40 blockchains, including Layer 1 blockchains (Layer1) and Layer 2 blockchains (Layer2), to expand access and simplify the processes of various decentralized applications (DApps) and prominent projects in the crypto ecosystem.
According to publication According to The Graph developers on their website, the indexing protocol now supports Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom, Celo, Near, Gnosis, Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Scroll, zkSync, and more than twenty other networks.
Empowering the cryptocurrency ecosystem
The Graph explained that with support for these and other blockchains, blockchain developers now have the essential tools to optimize the development of the crypto ecosystem. Specifically, it stated that:
“Tens of thousands of developers building on the aforementioned chains can now leverage The Graph’s decentralized network to reduce costs and speed up synchronization times, joining prominent dapps Vela, Loopring, Snapshot, Art Blocks, and many others.”
In addition to empowering developers' building tools, The Graph also highlighted that support for Bitcoin and several of the most popular blockchain networks represents a significant step towards innovation, which Bringing the multichain vision of Web3 to lifeIn his post, he emphasized that multi-chain support will improve data access, quality of services, and the reliability of the blockchain ecosystem infrastructure, while enhancing the capabilities of the overall ecosystem and boosting its scalability and growth.
The Graph is one of the most innovative projects in the crypto world, seeking to optimize access to data contained in the blockchain in order to facilitate the creation of new projects and applications and accelerate the construction of the decentralized web of the future.
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