Graph Protocol Mission Control Testnet: Curators, 16 Oct 2020

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From YouTube: The Graph's Testnet: Curators Phase 1 Workshop

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Today we're launching the Curators Program of Mission Control, The Graph’s incentivized testnet. The program is a competition where curators can complete missions and contribute to improving The Graph Network ahead of mainnet launch.

In this kick-off call we go over details of The Graph, the curator's role in the Network, the logistics of the program, and answer questions of the community as we start Phase 1!

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A

Hi everyone we welcome to the second curator call uh with the crafts test net. It's great to have you all here, so this is. This call is being recorded as always. So please, if you do not want to be recorded, just turn off your video and change your name. Thank you all for joining my name is tegan klein. I focus on all things business at the graph as well as drt relations, and the graph is really working to ensure blockchain data is open and easily accessible, so that developers can truly build decentralized and serverless applications.

A

We're really excited to introduce some new concepts to you today, and so with that I will hand it over to our co-founder and project lead, yeah tall.

B

Hey everyone all right, so um we're getting started with phase one of the curator program. Now and uh this is gonna, be uh you know the last workshop that we do that's kind of high level on uh kind of the vision and then uh starting with next workshops, we're gonna, be you know getting our hands dirty by looking at how to build, sub graphs and uh and you'll be learning.

B

You know, skills uh that'll be very relevant for being a curator, uh but we wanted to take just you know one more workshop uh just to talk. You know a little bit broader uh about. um You know how we think about uh this decentralization moving, a movement unfolding and um and- and you know how the graph really fits into that. um So I want to start uh with everest again and that's you know everest is uh you know, kind of the first part of this phase, one that we're doing just because you know it.

B

It helps to kind of set the stage and frame. You know how we think about. um You know this, this crypto economy. uh So you know we uh covered this last week, but for those that weren't here everest is a project's registry, and you know the idea is not just that. You know everest by itself. uh You know it needs to be this.

B

um You know very successful application, uh but really it's an example, and it's it's to you know uh start to get people thinking um in these kinds of terms uh decentralized data curation, um putting real valuable data on chain- um that's not controlled by any one company and uh starting to you, know organize public data really in a decentralized way, um and so you know with everest.

B

We start with these high-level categories and the idea is really to organize the entire crypto economy, and you know we believe that the entire economy is going to be moving over to this kind of open public infrastructure.

B

You know that over the next 10 to 20 years, you know crypto is going to be just as ubiquitous as you know, the internet is today- and uh you know today, almost you know: every company has a website. If you want to interact with the company, you do it, you know based on using their their web or mobile properties and similarly with crypto, you know all of that data becomes verifiable uh and, uh and so you can browse it in different ways, uh but it's all being accessed through these open.

B

You know permissionless protocols, and you know today there isn't a lot of that data, that's actually being you know, put on web3, um so so that it can really be verifiable and permissionless in that way, and so you know, uh everest is just one more project, that's pushing us in that direction, and so here we have these top-level categories for the economy, and you could, um you know, really add a lot of other categories. Even at this high level and as a curator, you know uh your goal is to become a domain expert in different.

B

You know in in whatever areas you want, you know, that's really. What is going to empower you to be a successful curator you know is to you know, just have domain expertise in some field, any field right it could be entertainment.

B

You know- and this could be in your work or personal lives right- maybe uh in a personal capacity- you're really interested in sports or in music, and and so you know, you could be a you know, a great candidate to be curating in those categories um uh for, and uh you know, if you're interested in the environment, um you know whatever areas your uh businesses are in. um I know a lot of people right now are working in d5.

B

um So if you have a lot of knowledge about d5- and you know what are the different projects in the space, what are the interesting new protocols getting built, um interesting, new gaps?

B

Then that's the kind of thing that would give you an edge to be able to curate effectively in those areas and uh to kind of you know illustrate this a little more. um You know right now, everest uh tracks. Just you know projects uh which is you know, a very simple uh kind of entity.

B

So if we go back to music, which I think is cool and audience which is you know, one of my my favorite projects in the space they've got a very you know, simple page here, it's actually owned by martine right now, uh but but they could come claim it um there's just you know a few fields related to to audience.

B

uh You know their description and uh and some of this metadata, uh but but you could imagine a lot more data um being uh you know, verifiable and and- and uh you know tracked and related um to audience.

B

So, for example, you know audience has a sub graph built by protofire, and you know if, if you come to uh you know, if you find audience in the explorer, you can see, for example like track information, um which is all related, um and you know if, if you kind of zoom out to you know, you know five to ten years ago. Sorry from um from now uh to the type of stuff that you know, you would be able to find in a registry like this.

B

um You know I like to to try to you know, think of topical uh examples of things that are going on in the world, and um you know right now. Covid uh you know is, you know, obviously top of mind for a lot of people and right now there are there. There isn't a lot of you know, let's say covid or health related data on web3 on everest, but um you know when people are trying to track.

B

uh You know what are the cases and all of this data related to you know cases and deaths for covid. You know that's data that would be really nice to be able to share and and and and be verifiable, so people could build different types of applications on top of that and right now, a lot of that is being done very ad hoc.

B

uh You know they're different government agencies that every once in a while they'll like manually upload a csv to some server and then people can um you know access it from there, but you know in in the internet age you would expect there to be. You know- and you know whether it's iot devices or you know the the applications that people are actually using in the field should actually be. You know signing transactions right like you know, there was a case of covid at this place at this time, attested to by this.

B

You know nurse and that's being you know, stored on a blockchain on a layer two somewhere and uh and that data can be processed and all of the different people that are watching and interacting with you know, health services should be able to. um You know react to that data in real time, um and so uh you know things like that. You know when people are trying to track ventilators.

B

um You know how many ventilators are there in different cities. You know, that's not data, that's very easily accessible. um uh You know how many icu units, so you know there's just like so much data. That is a public interest that today is difficult to find, and you know if we had protocols for you know making that data uh easily accessible, and then we had, you know curators, organizing, that data making sense of that data and repackaging it.

B

um You know, that's that's the kind of direction that we need to be going as a society, and you know there are. You know many orders of magnitude, uh more data. um That, then, is being you know, uh efficiently organized and made accessible out there, um and so I think you know this is a really big opportunity.

B

um You know for for the crypto space and for people to work on. You know bringing more and more things online, essentially onto this type of infrastructure.

B

um So uh um uh next we're gonna, uh I'm gonna, have dave, uh come and actually walk you through some of the mechanisms behind everest to share a little bit about how we built this and how you could use um some of the same design patterns and kind of riff off of them uh to you know, build uh your own decentralized applications.

B

um You know fun, trivia is uh dave, was one of our uh or sorry was the very first sub graph developer um so uh excited to to introduce him to the group.

C

Here yeah, I was just muted for a sec awesome, so thanks for that, univ I'll just go into some details about how to actually use everest and create a project and challenge project and also vote on a project and then kind of talk about. You know how you could look at this to maybe like fork the code and build your own version of everest, but for a completely different thing. Other than projects based in the crypto space and, like the options are really limitless there.

C

So this is just going to be kind of like a primer for you to understand like how the application actually works. So this is the project list right here, there's 251 projects and there's actually one open challenge. Right now um like we saw like if you click on a project, uh you see all the details about this project, so somebody created this project. This is the owner of the project and if you click this button right here, the three uh dot drop down, you can actually challenge it.

C

So one thing that you should know when you're using everest is the only way you can actually challenge a project. Is if you are an owner of another project in the registry, so there's 251 projects?

C

What we've done is you can only actually challenge if you're also an owner, because, like you're somebody contributing to the list, otherwise it's kind of like a civil resistance mechanism, because somebody could come and just start challenging all of them, um and we don't want that to happen. So, in order to do that, you have to actually create a project and I'm going to create one right now.

C

uh You just press the plus button up there and I'm going to do one that probably a lot of you have heard of that. I checked and it wasn't on the list and it's a year in finance.

C

So I have some stuff here that just I've copied from copy and pasting over um here's another thing, so you might have seen the categories previously when you need with sharing. So we picked out all these categories here, um the ones that I thought of right away. I mean it's kind of it's it's up to interpretation because urine does a lot of stuff, but uh one of the easiest ones that I can think of right away.

C

Is they do investing so we pick those two d5 and then investing is also a subcategory underneath d5 and we just select these two categories, we'll also upload the project logo, and I also just took a screenshot of their website um showing their vaults right there. So we're uploading all this to ipfs actually- and I also have this stuff right here.

C

So some of these fields are not required.

C

But we we do definitely have like the the name and the description and the categories are required and the thing is: if you create a project on everest and there's some wrong data, like maybe I described, urine completely wrong or used an old logo like you can challenge it actually um and we'll get into that soon, and you click this if you're a project representative, it's just you know. If I worked at urine, then I would click that because it's like this project has been claimed by the person who who owns it.

C

But in this scenario I'm actually not a project representative, which means somebody can claim it from me. So it's a way to allow the list to grow without having, like actual people from the team, have to come to everest and sign up, but then in the future they can, um they can come claim it.

C

So we're gonna add the project. What happened there.

C

I do not know what just happened.

C

C

Not sure what happened there, I lost all my data I'll. Do it really quick.

B

Demo effect and uh somebody was asking about the the ten die listing fee, so you know everest is kind of our take on a tcr. uh You know, folks that were around in 2017, 2018, probably remember tcr's, um you know we think they they didn't catch on, because uh you know the the ux was too kind of clunky. So people remember like with tcr's.

B

um You had to be approved before you could get added to the list, and I think that whole waiting period uh added a lot of friction to the process and also you know with tcr's. The idea was that you know people that were maintaining the list.

B

You know would have these tokens and the tokens would increase in value, and that would be the reason for maintaining the list and ultimately, what we think is that you know if there's a list like this, that has value and people want to be on the list and using the list as a value to people um that by itself is its own incentive for kind of curating it, and so we did add that 10-die listing fee just as a spam prevention mechanism.

B

It goes basically to the reserve bank, which is managed by everest itself. Right now, we haven't done anything with those funds, but you could imagine that funds like that could be used to fund external contributors. You know developers, uh people that are like you know improving. um You know the dap and um and also uh gable speak to other uses of uh of those funds, um but that's a way that we basically make the ux much simpler and uh and solve some of the uh you know, economic uh issues.

A

Yes and as curators, you can go in and you can find all the projects that haven't yet been added to everest and you can also go in and see which ones haven't been claimed and reach out to folks at those projects or those companies to go in and actually claim their projects on everest.

C

Yeah 100, so some reason I couldn't get the the urine um subgraph to actually or the year and project to get uploaded. I'm going to look into that right after this meeting, but luckily I have some projects already registered right here. So these are ones that I've created, but I'm not the actual owner of either of these projects. Obviously they could come claim it. um But if you see you know, that's just the the name I gave myself um and you can do stuff.

C

You can delegate this like the the functionality and the voting of this um product project to somebody else or you can transfer ownership or you can start to actually edit data on it. So one thing to note about the lists: we're actually going to go. Look at challenges right now.

C

So, as you can see, there's one project- that's challenged right now and it's the uniswap subgraph, which might seem weird. But if we scroll down um you'll, see there's two right here. So there's this unit swap one with the new logo and this other unit swap one and somebody challenged it and said the uniswep logo and project image are both outdated and it has the wrong categories.

C

So this is. This is a valid reason for a challenge right, it's kind of like a simple idea, but there's like so much potential in this curation, um but I can just look at this and see that you know this person is right that other uniswap uh project is actually a better representation of the project. So I'm actually going to vote to remove this and now there's two projects I own.

C

Both of these projects have voting power and the voting power is actually based on how long the project has been part of the everest registry, because otherwise you could just register a thousand projects and kind of like civil attack, the whole registry and uh vote off everybody if it was just one person or one project, one vote. So the longer your project has been on chain, the more voting power you have based on the time, and so you can vote multiple at once and once again I don't know why.

C

But my transactions are not working on my google chrome um here we go. I refreshed and some reason it's now.

B

That might be your full screen.

C

Yeah, um so I wonder if the gas price is really this high, uh I'm gonna go with it. Let's see.

C

Yeah, um so it did get accepted, and now we see that there's three voters and you've already seen that I voted on behalf right here. So you know you guys can go like you'll have to create a project first um and get on the registry.

C

There's hundreds of projects that aren't on there right now that you could, you could put up your own project um or one that you know exists, that's not up there and then you can actually go vote on this as well, and um your vote won't have as much weight as the projects. I just voted with, because I think I created those months ago, but definitely it's like uh it's it's a way to to contribute right now.

C

um Yeah, do you want to show the subgraph now you need.

B

Sure yeah, so one just you know thing to just kind of share, even with this example and looking at uh you know how expensive the gas is uh you know. Maybe this would be a great candidate now for shifting this registry over to a layer. Two right, uh you know a matic and optimism, isn't you know quite out yet they're in their test net but um uh xdi? You know, there's these layer, twos and you know right now. It's really up to these, like project teams, to make those decisions right.

B

So if synthetics wants to move to layer, two um they're gonna make that decision themselves. uh But you know, as more and more data comes and and starts to get curated uh on these chains. You know it's not necessarily going to be. You know one smart contract, one project just like that. You know really we're going to start to see smart contracts deployed on lots of different chains, uh lots of different. um You know, layer, twos, and you know in a lot of ways. It then becomes a job of kind of curators.

B

I think to um you know, organize that data and and make those types of decisions um so like with um uh you know.

B

The graph kind of you know is this layer on top that creates this really convenient api, and so, if you've got some data, that is like, let's say it's, you know it's the medical data that I gave as an example before and right now someone you know that data is being tracked on ethereum mainnet uh and then you know curators, who have an understanding of you know what are the properties of this chain? um Is this the right place for this thing to be, or should we migrate it over to a different place?

B

um You know those are the types of decisions that you know in the future. uh Curators might make uh to migrate things over to uh uh to different places. The same way that a database administrator inside of a company who decides what's the optimal shape or layout for data in a database.

B

You know in order to take all the different access patterns into consideration, and um so I think that's that's an interesting area, for uh you know these things to kind of evolve into, um uh but but.

A

B

That was a really great kind of walk through of um you know the design decisions that we made behind everest. You know how a decentralized group of folks can collaborate on building this registry, um and uh you know it's just one type of data, but I think it's a very powerful type of data, and you know if we just started with you- know an organized registry of every single project, that's being built in crypto.

B

I think you know that's a very powerful starting point and um you know not all of these projects are dapps or protocols right. A lot of them are, you know traditional corporations and that's okay as a starting point, but over time you know more and more of those projects will probably find that it's it's better to you, know design their business processes as smart contracts and as protocols and um and and uh you know so so you know it's this process of migration.

B

You know from a world where today there are very few actually like crypto native companies or projects really in existence, and- and you know we're just you know at the beginning of this journey of creating you know, thousands. Tens of thousands, you know and more uh truly crypto native projects, um and and- and so we want to organize all of that and and starting out you know it's okay, for example, not every uh project is owned by a project representative, but it's a good goal to you know get people to take ownership of it.

B

You know, if I um you know, am I you know the the founder or a team member of audience. You know to be able to. Actually you know own claim that listing update it, make sure that it's accurate, the same way that you know today, companies own and manage their own linkedin profiles.

B

um So uh you know now uh to just kind of you know, take a look at you know what um you know. This kind of looks like on the graph so um for those that haven't seen this, you know this is our graph explorer where you can browse these subgraphs, which are open, graphql apis, and you know the idea of the graph is- is really uh you know quite simple in a lot of ways right: a global graphql api on top of blockchains and decentralized networks.

B

um So you know, for those that don't know, graphql is a query language uh from facebook. It's been out for you know about five years and it's it's really grown in popularity and it's one of the uh you know more used hot.

B

You know technologies in the web development space and it's also the ideal query language for product developers, people that you know want to build great products, and- um uh and so here you know, we can browse these different subgraphs that uh folks have built uh for uh their crypto projects, and here we can see the everest one, for example, and because everest has a sub graph, you know anybody can, you know, come see the data, that's actually powering that dap and exp, and and explore it.

B

So this here is a schema and it shows me the shape of the data. So everest has projects and categories and challenges like we've, seen, there's votes and there's users. So if I want to see you know what kind of data there is related to a category, these are the fields right. So category is the entity right. It's it's a type of object and then it has these fields, uh description, image, hash, you know name and these fields have types- and you know so.

B

This is a very simple description, language for defining the shape of data and the reason that it's called a graph is because you know you could think of a single fact here at a single category. So let's say that the category is defy right. That's an instance of an entity, um it has fields which can relate to other nodes right. So um you know here a category can have a list of projects, and so it's it's a uh actually, it's a many-to-many relationship, so a category can have many projects.

B

A project can belong to many categories and I can see seamlessly like traverse these relationships and go back and forth and that's what makes it a graph. And so here you know. Let's say that I want to grab some of the categories and I don't really care about these fields.

B

I can search for you know the name and the description right. These you know I get autocomplete uh the the things that show up in the autocomplete match the schema that I can see on the right and I can run a query and uh and get the response back. So here here are five categories. You know I could get.

A

B

If I wanted and then I can seamlessly traverse those relationships, so let's say I want to get you know the first five projects for each of these categories and for each one you know what data is available. Let's say I want also the name in the description uh I can easily.

B

You know query for that, and then I can do things like sorting in filters, so these different parameters that are available in this graphql api. So if I want to filter it down, you know I it shows me here what the available parameters are also, and let's say that what I want is to find categories.

B

You know where let's say that you know here, there's this project counts, so I only care about categories that have more than five projects. Let's say so. I can put that in there and uh and- and here are the categories that have you know, seven categories that have more than five projects, and I can see what some of the projects are in there right their names in the description, so I'm getting back just the fields that I requested back. um So you know this is a really powerful way.

B

Then, once this api is deployed, um anyone who's building, an application can come discover. The data that's being made available can write these queries and can actually put this directly in their front-end applications to build their own uis just like everest, but because you know it's coming from the graph people that are using those dapps can know that the data that's coming back is correct, and you know that that's a really powerful, powerful part of this kind of you know transition is you know, because the api is the top of the stack.

B

If I'm using an application- and let's say it's getting all of its data from the graph, I know that it's all verifiable, uh but of course you know the question of you know. How do I know that it's the right api to begin with and that the data that's calculated in the api itself is correct?

B

Is is really important and you know that kind of brings you to this really kind of you know fundamental question. You know what is truth.

B

You know, and I think that that is a question that crypto you know. uh As you know, the internet has, you know, exploded and, and now you know anyone can say anything and we have to try to understand.

B

You know, filter the signal from the noise that process of taking all of the world's information and filtering it and trying to pull the signal from the noise is one of the most important things that we can do as as a species and- um and uh you know from an architecture perspective, um you know what you, what you realize is that there's a difference between an event, that's taken place and an interpretation of that event right.

B

So um you know I I could you know, have a disagreement with my partner and you know I'm convinced that you know this specific thing happened, but really that's just my my interpretation right, the the fact is, you know this thing was said at this time by this person and then you know, interpretations are kind of subjective.

B

um Different people can have different interpretations and so from an architecture standpoint you know- um and I think you know people you know, there's an interesting question of what data needs to be, let's say on chain versus what data is actually interpretations of what has happened on chain, and I think um you know it's an interesting question for for people to ask themselves, and you know kind of you know, leave that as you know food for thought.

B

um So you know, we've talked about a lot of like futuristic stuff, um but I want to kind of grind ground this a little bit, and you know I'm really happy that I I have you know a bunch of people on this, call that we're working closely with so many awesome. You know folks preparing for the network launch. um You know so that I can, you know, maybe throw some ideas out there. You know, I know a lot of people are working on their existing.

B

You know protocols and dapps and- um and and uh you know, that's that's going to continue to be your focus, but you know for folks that have some free time that want to you know figure out. How can I push this decentralization movement forward? um You know I you know I had there's this. uh You know. Focus that, I think is it would you know is, is really worthwhile. um You know for, for us to kind of look at is a community which you know, I think you know within crypto.

B

We spend a lot of time trying to find markets right, like who you know we're all building things and we're trying to sell them to the outside world. uh But not everybody understands the value of crypto yet, and we haven't necessarily built you know a ton of you know great usable applications. Yet you know that uh to to bring people in, and so you know, I think that a lot of times change starts at home and even over the last year, if you look at how much has been built in the space, it's really incredible.

B

You know the kind of you know primitives that have gone into d5 and now you know with web3, and you know I think you know we need to start putting all of those tools to use to solve real problems. And, ideally you know they can be problems that we all ourselves have, and you know that's the best way I think to get product market fit. Is you know to build a a product for a problem that you understand that you have yourself and that you would be a user of?

B

Because that way you can really have you know empathy and- and you can build something you know if you build something that you yourself would use and your friends would use. You know, that's that that's really the beginning of how you get product market fit, um and so you know uh the focus area that I would throw out there is. I would love to see more people building great tools for the crypto community right, because we already are a very you know uh well connected well developed community of people that have the same passions.

B

You know we love to you know when we can fly to the same conferences and meet each other in person. You know stay up to date on what people are thinking and working on, and so you know, if you're trying to build network effects, you know selecting a group where there already is. A strong network, I think is, is a really good strategy um and within the crypto community uh you know there are a lot of apps that we could be building that we could start using and drive adoption of today.

B

um So you know we we we, uh you know dave gave this kind of demo of everest. We also created this uh registry starter uh to track erc 20 tokens, and this is just you know. Another example of um you know anybody can create an erc20 token, and you know you know how. How do we? Actually, you know, have an uh maintain, an organized list of all of the tokens.

B

There have been a few different experiments with this. I think claros has a pretty good erc 20. You know, tcr uh uniswag came out with this. You know tokenless thing where everybody can have their own kind of list of tokens, but even something as sim as simple as this, I don't think has has been. You know very well solved, and this is just like one thing: you know tokens and their metadata.

B

That is like a clear, clear need uh within crypto, uh but but there's honestly, like hundreds of things like this, that today, we basically solve through centralized means and there's no reason why we wouldn't be able to solve them in a decentralized way, and uh you know start to build out that network of uh verifiable data, um and uh you know so.

B

You know this is kind of a plan that I've been outlining for the last year, and uh you know I'm gonna, you know share it again here, because I think it's it's a very useful lens for how we go from zero to one right from a world where you know we're just not using web three or you know, apps, on a regular basis for meaningful parts of our lives that you know. How do we kick-start that flywheel?

B

How do we get to a point where, in any given day, you know, there's like a large set of things that I'm doing that's on web3? That's part of this crypto economy, like native right, crypto, native um and so step one is either gets a product market fit within initial set of dapps. Now, since I came out with this plan, there have actually been some really great dapps that have come out that had nothing to do with like the crypto economy.

B

So you know there's definitely multiple routes to this, and you know examples of that are audience foundation zora. You know some really cool things happening. I think right now in the like, you know uh art and collectible space, but you know, I think you know looking at what kind of things we could be using on a regular basis to for our own. You know, uh interactions in the crypto um community.

B

um You know, let's just get to product market fit with the initial set of daps. You know. Everest can be an example of one of these steps and there could be many others get the crypto community to switch over right. There's a thousand people in this curator program right, no reason why these thousand people wouldn't be using these daps on a regular basis right, there's, probably 10 000 people in you know one one. You know circle out from there.

B

You know, let's get 10 000 people to use a handful of these dapps, and you know if you once once you break through to that level. You're actually really close um to you know a a mainstream.

B

uh You know level of growth, and- and so that's you know, three is just grow based on the quality of the products right. These are great products that we love to use every day. um We've got an engine, um so we kind of went over everest. um You know. A big part of the organizing force here is making sure that all of this data is, is you know, being indexed and is organized in a verifiable way, and- um and so I've picked out here, five areas.

B

Now I haven't updated these. uh The the actual um example projects that I've given under this, but um but these are just five entities. If you will like we're just looking at, um uh you know the the graph explorer that I think are really perfect candidates for like these should be things that we have on web3 natively, that are verifiable projects, people, jobs, blogs and events right. It's just five things, but having these things with really great native web 3d apps that people use on a regular basis would change.

B

Everything like this would get us started. um You know today, interacting with these entities are, are things that we all do through centralized web, 2, apps and honestly, most of them suck. You know for, like you know, for for tracking projects, people are using linkedin right now, right as their main. Like here's. My project profile, my professional profile and linkedin, is an absolute disaster of a product. Right, I don't know a single person who enjoys using linkedin.

B

um You know I posted a tweet recently that they're going to be like 25, you know billion dollar, plus companies built linkedin and- and I totally believe that right and they're like that, there's a market opportunity and and it and it's a perfect one for the crypto community to go after you know.

B

If we're looking for product market fit like, let's solve the problem of you know, organizing work you know make you know helping people find work, helping people find people to work with, like you know, that is at the core of what we're doing and so, starting with you know, projects and making all of those you know, projects something that you can find discover uh natively in web3, great step. uh People right is the next one. What's your digital identity right, three bucks have been doing a great job with this.

B

um You know if whether it's your ethereum address or it did right, some kind of identity and different profile information. That's tied to you as a person like I you need. I do have a three box profile. So maybe that's a good start, but there's a lot more that I could put about my profile and that you know peop that uh you know is is part of who I am. That should be part of my digital identity. um That's that's on chain.

B

Jobs is another one. You know uh most. You know many of you work at companies, I'm sure that you're hiring, you know what platforms are you using for your job? Openings is. Is it you know a a web 2. You know product like uh um uh you know. uh You know, there's all the different job board apps, uh but but that's another really great one that you know if you were browsing through something like everest and you could actually see the job openings and all of the different.

B

You know categories in the crypto economy that would be really useful and and and that's part of that deconstructing linkedin. For um uh for for uh uh that, that's really relevant to people working in this crypto space. um You blogs, you know same thing.

B

You know uh you might have seen some posts coming out of our um uh blog at the graph.com and we built like a native branded blog we've moved off of medium and we've been able to be so much more expressive through that format, and you know maybe you've seen some of our illustrations and the fact that, like you know, blog posts are a really. uh You know great way to express yourself and if we move off of these one-size-fits-all cookie-cutter platforms.

B

For expressing our ideas, um you know, that's, that's that's a big um opportunity and if we could index that data not have to worry about it getting censored by medium because it has to do with crypto and people can start to mix and match these things right, building different views where you know they can pull from the stream of all of the different posts and build curated experiences. On top of that, um and you know things like blogs blog posts, um you know that kind of you know ranges.

B

um You know from long form. You know: texts, like blog posts themselves, are fairly long form all the way down to individual tweets, and so you know how do we think about the data model that separates? You know a tweet from a blog post, and you know those those are all questions that are very relevant to curators right. What is the underlying shape of the data that we care about? What are the underlying data sources that we can be? You know pulling that data from and then how do we?

B

You know organize this in a way that is going to be helpful for application developers um and then finally, here we've got events, and I think that you know events are something that um you know we love in crypto. You know, I'm sure we can't wait to get back to our conferences, but if I could track you know when I'm going to you know the next devcon. What are all the different parties that are happening in in uh you know?

B

Bogota or you know, wherever we're going and um uh and if I'm you know in a city I can find in the meetups and and the local events- and you know what are all of the different conferences happening in crypto. You know right today where a lot of people are still using eventbrite and meetup. You know are those great products, I don't know, but you know this would be a starting point. You know just these five things.

B

If we just had projects, people, jobs, blogs, events right and every project in the crypto space was, uh you know using native web 3d apps for managing these things.

B

You know we we would be off to the races. We would be zero to one and you could build great. You know apps, like everest, where you know browsing different categories. You know you'd be able to see you know all of the events. You know related to the environment industry in a certain city right all the different job openings right. What are what are people thinking about? What are their different posts like? We need?

B

We need to be organizing this data and um and when it comes to the graph, you know that you know, then you start to really kind of see the power of having a global graphql api, uh because if you know, if you could filter you know and find you know, I'm really interested in um uh you know uh it's not. I was jumping to law enforcement, but let's say uh like health and wellness, and so um you know I I can see all of the projects in health and wellness.

B

um I can see all of the people working for those projects and I can see their roles and skills, um and you know you can just traverse this graph of data build your own custom views your own custom. um You know applications on top of the the global graph of open public information.

B

um That's it's! You know a really really powerful idea and I just want to to end today on just you know. One kind of um you know part of our story and how you know. We've really stayed focused on this vision behind the graph for so long. um You know, even before uh I learned about ethereum, um you know I. I was really passionate about developer tools and uh you know we were working on a startup in 2017. Building react, developer tools and react is a really great.

B

um You know component uh ui component system from facebook. um Also, uh that's that's uh that a lot of people use to build their their their. uh You know web and mobile apps, and um you know I really think that we need to just make software uh more accessible to a lot of people. You know we are in the internet age and it's really difficult to be an engineer.

B

You know software engineer, most people aren't engineers and yet we all have to interact with you know, information and share information, and- and- um uh and- and so you know- I I I've- you know- spent a lot of time over the last decade- thinking about how to make software more accessible to more people and on the ui side there have been a lot of great developments because of react and tools.

B

You know around there that make it really easy to build user interfaces and I think there's going to continue to be advancements there, and you know I originally had the idea you know for for the graph uh even before uh getting into ethereum- and I was you know at a co-working space working on. um You know this.

B

This react developer tool, startup and- um and uh you know really just uh you know in the world of of graphql and realize that the end state, for you know back end development is going to be this global graphql api, like that. That is just the end state for you know, sharing for for for back end development for processing data. You know moving up the stack to the api layer and the the the problem is that you know a global graphql api.

B

Is it's it's too big of a thing for any one company to own right like what company you know should decide. You know what all of you know. The world's kind of you know data. You know what is the truth right? What is what is the data that should be served from the global graphql api and at the time you know I just kind of pause it there.

B

But after I learned about ethereum and after I I understood what we're building in the blockchain in the crypto space and then suddenly, you know it became clear. You know it can't be a single company, it has to be done in a decentralized way, and now we have the tools right for a decentralized set of people to run the infrastructure, uh a decentralized set of people to organize and curate the data, and- and that's really what you know we're doing here um at the graph.

B

So you know, hopefully we gave you some kind of food for thought. um Just you know how to think about. um You know what what we're building here. You know what types of smart contracts sub graphs applications can get built. What it means to you know, really organize data, but you know and put it behind a graphql api and uh and in future workshops we're going to get a lot more hands-on and it's going to be a lot more concrete cool all right with that, I'm going to pass it over to uh to take it.

A

Thank you. So, yes, like you mentioned this, is kind of the last high level. Talk that we'll do we're going to get into the nitty gritty challenges in the next curator call. um So for next steps. You know many of you did receive that agreement already. Thank you to those that have signed that we will be sending the remaining curator agreements out after this workshop.

A

We'll also be sending the phase one documents and then the form, so the form is where you track all the things that you've done for uh the graphs test net so like adding products to everest getting projects claimed on everest, creating a job board on everest, um other things like marketing.

A

So if you create a blog for us, if you tweet about the graph, um if you help folks in the discord or in the telegram and when they have questions, if you know the answers um things like that, also, you know adding people to the curation program. We encourage you to share this with your friends. While it is still open, we are allocating up to three percent of our total grt supply.

A

So that is a significant amount to this program, and we want to make sure that anyone contributes to the graph is rewarded for doing so. So thank you all for joining we'll, be sharing this talk after uh this recorded talk after as well, and we're happy to address any questions in in the discord and thank you all for your commitment to this journey. To make data open and accessible to everyone cheers.

B

Thanks everyone.

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