TheGraph in Milkomeda

We will deploy an instance of TheGraph to Milkomeda which will act as an indexing protocol for querying networks like Milkomeda and IPFS

dcSpark is a core contributor to Milkomeda and so we have experience with Ethereum and Solidity. We also contribute to many open-source projects so we are used to looking into external codebases to figure out how they work. TheGraph is available on Github through an MIT license

[IMPACT]

TheGraph is an open source protocol for Ethereum that we can redeploy as a Cardano dApp through Milkomeda. Since indexer protocols are core infrastructure, many other dApps depend having access to data sources provided by protocols such as TheGraph to function properly. Having an implementation of TheGraph on Milkomeda will help more projects deploy on Cardano as they will have the required infrastructure available to them

Providing the required infrastructure for dApps will attract more developers to the Cardano ecosystem and allow them to deploy their protocol and start gathering users

TheGraph is not a protocol written by dcSpark and so we will have to continuously update our deployment with upstream changes they made and monitor these changes to make sure they also make sense for the Milkomeda deployment. This is difficult engineering work, but we're confident our team has the right skills and experience to do this.

[FEASIBILITY]

We plan to start investigating the deployment in Q2 2022 and have the deployment ready in Q3 2022

• $10K - developer cost of understanding the codebase and correctly deploying the protocol on Milkomeda
• $10K - cost of maintaining the service (merging upstream changes, server hosting costs, etc.)

dcSpark is one of the core contributors to Milkomeda so we have multiple developers familiar with Ethereum, Solidity and open source development and so they have the right skills to bring TheGraph to Cardano through Milkomeda

[AUDITABILITY]

Progress will be defined as our progress towards deploying TheGraph onto Milkomeda

Success for the project looks like multiple dApps being deployed to Cardano through Milkomeda that use data stored in TheGraph to power their functionality

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