Why Your Chain Needs a Native Data Indexing Protocol

Relying on The Graph's hosted service creates a critical dependency and performance lag for high-frequency chains. Native protocols eliminate this single point of failure and latency.

• ~2-5s indexing latency on general-purpose services vs. sub-500ms for native solutions.
• Eliminate cross-chain query overhead, reducing costs by ~30-50% for dApps.
• Direct chain integration enables real-time access to native execution traces and precompiles.

Applications like UniswapX and Across require real-time, verifiable state proofs for cross-domain intent settlement. A native indexer is the essential truth layer.

• Serve ZK-verifiable state proofs for bridges like LayerZero and Hyperlane.
• Enable atomic composability for intent-based architectures, reducing MEV leakage.
• Provide millisecond-grade price oracle updates critical for perpetual DEXs and lending markets.

Autonomous agents require deterministic, low-latency data to execute complex strategies. A native protocol is the only infrastructure capable of meeting their SLA.

• Support high-concurrency queries from thousands of parallel agents without degrading performance.
• Deliver structured transaction mempool data for predictive agent actions.
• Become a revenue stream: indexer fees from AI agents could surpass $100M+ annually per major chain.

Relying on The Graph's hosted service creates a single point of failure and misaligned incentives. Your chain's data availability is held hostage by a third-party's economic model and uptime.

• Sovereignty Risk: Indexing halts if service lapses or pricing changes.
• Performance Lag: Multi-hop queries through a general-purpose network add ~200-500ms latency.
• Custom Logic Gap: Hard to implement chain-specific optimizations (e.g., Sealevel for Solana, STF for Starknet).

DApps on your chain suffer from slow, expensive, and unreliable data feeds, crippling UX and adoption. Every millisecond in query latency is a user lost to a faster competitor.

• UX Degradation: Front-ends stall waiting for sub-2s RPC calls to resolve.
• Dev Overhead: Engineers waste cycles building and maintaining custom indexers.
• Cost Bloat: Applications pay ~30% more in infrastructure costs for workarounds.

A native indexing protocol turns raw chain data into a structured, high-performance query layer. It's the dedicated database for your state machine, akin to Celestia for data availability but for on-chain querying.

• Tailored Execution: Optimize for your VM (EVM, SVM, Move) and data structures.
• Local Incentives: Reward indexers directly in your native token, aligning them with chain security.
• Composable Primitives: Enables complex DeFi positions, NFT analytics, and social graphs that generic indexers can't efficiently serve.

Next-gen applications (UniswapX, CowSwap, Across) rely on real-time, cross-chain state. Without a native indexer, your chain is invisible to intent solvers and loses MEV capture.

• Cross-Chain Blindspot: Solvers won't route liquidity through chains they can't query atomically.
• MEV Leakage: Value extraction moves to chains with superior data infrastructure (e.g., Ethereum + Flashbots).
• Innovation Lag: You cannot build advanced intent-based or AI-agent driven dApps.

The gap compounds. Competing L1s/L2s (Solana, Monad, Berachain) are baking this in. Your chain becomes a data backwater.

• Developer Drain: Top talent builds where the tools are best.
• TVL Stagnation: Capital follows applications, which follow infrastructure.
• Strategic Irrelevance: You cede the narrative of scalability and usability to chains that solved this.

Implement a minimal, incentivized indexer protocol from day one. Use EigenLayer for cryptoeconomic security or a light-client-based proof system. Decouple data serving from consensus for scale.

• Launch with Data: Offer sub-100ms queries as a chain feature.
• Monetize Access: Create a sustainable revenue stream from indexer fees.
• Attract Killer Apps: Become the default home for data-intensive DeFi, gaming, and social protocols.