The Graph Moves Polygon And BNB Chain Traffic Off Its Centralized Studio Layer

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: October 8 marks the cutoff for production-style staging traffic on The Graph’s centralized Subgraph Studio endpoints for Polygon and BNB Chain. Developers are being pushed onto The Graph Network, where independent indexers serve queries and earn the associated fees. The Graph is shutting another door on the centralized infrastructure that helped bootstrap its ecosystem. October 8 is the transition deadline for Subgraph Studio staging traffic on Polygon and BNB Chain, moving those queries toward The Graph‘s decentralized network of indexers. For users of decentralized applications, almost nothing visible should change. For the infrastructure underneath those apps, the difference is important. Subgraphs organize blockchain data so applications can ask useful questions without scanning an entire chain every time they need information. A DeFi front end might use a subgraph to retrieve positions, transaction histories or protocol statistics. Historically, developers could rely on hosted or Studio infrastructure provided centrally while they built and tested those applications. That...