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APIs in Web3 with The Graph — How It Differs from Web 2.0

https://twitter.com/ricmac One of the stumbling blocks of developing a decentralized application (dApp) is the complexity of querying and using data from a blockchain and other “off-chain” solutions. With dApps, and particularly those running on the Ethereum blockchain, not all of the data is stored on the blockchain. There are often decentralized storage networks involved, like the The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

One project aiming to change this situation is https://thegraph.com/en/, described as “an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS.”

Essentially, what the Bored Ape Yacht Club puts on the blockchain is the transactional data for its apes.