Hassan Maishera
The Graph Protocol announced via X on Tuesday that its gateway now accepts x402 payments from developers. Developers can now query any subgraph on The Graph Network by paying per request in USDC. No API key. No account. No dashboard.
The Graph indexes blockchain data across dozens of networks for developers and agents to get token data, DEX pairs, governance updates, NFT metadata, and protocol activity. That data has always been available through The Graph’s decentralized gateways, but accessing it required a Subgraph Studio account and an API key. Fine for apps. Not great for agents.
x402 changes the access model. Your agent hits an endpoint, gets a 402 response with the price, signs a USDC payment on Base, retries, and gets the data. The payment is the auth.
The Graph is an indexing protocol for decentralized applications that allows developers to access blockchain data efficiently. Developers can build subgraphs that define how to ingest, index, and serve blockchain data in a verifiable way.
The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying data for networks like Ethereum and IPFS, powering many applications in both DeFi and the broader Web3 ecosystem. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph, and the decentralized network will be launching later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with more networks coming soon.
GRT, the native token of The Graph Network, is up 0.3% in the last 24 hours and is currently trading at $0.02857.
To date, over 3,000 subgraphs have been deployed by thousands of developers, for DApps like Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, AAVE, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Decentraland, and many others. The Graph usage has been growing at over 50% MoM and hit over 7 billion queries during the month of September 2020.
The Graph has a global community, including over 200 Indexer Nodes in the testnet and more than 2,000 Curators in the Curator Program as of October 2020. To fund network development, The Graph raised funds from community members, strategic VCs, and influential individuals in the blockchain community, including Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework, ParaFi Capital, CoinFund, DTC, Multicoin, Reciprocal Ventures, SPC, Tally Capital, and others. The Graph Foundation also successfully completed a public GRT Sale with participation from 99 countries (not including the U.S.).
