23 Ways to Participate in The Graph Ecosystem
Whether you are new to web3, or a seasoned participant of the decentralized internet, is among the most collaborative, supportive and welcoming ecosystems you can participate in. The Graph community, and its various subcommunities, makes it easy to contribute to the decentralized data revolution.
With The Graph community, you can find ways to apply your skills and passions to the internet of the future—or, learn and discover new abilities. No matter your technical skill level, there’s a way for everyone to contribute to The Graph, while building a better internet for all. You can get involved in a number of ways including network participation, protocol development, web3 evangelism, event organizing, and much more.
This blog serves as a hub for the many resources, community meetings, and opportunities for you to dive into The Graph ecosystem. Check out all 23 ways to participate!
Educate yourself on The Graph
The Graph has a number of educational resources to enable community members to not only understand the protocol, but to participate and contribute as well. These resources include easy-to-follow podcasts, articles and courses where you can learn at your own pace, and videos for visual learning.
1. GRTiQ Podcast
The Graph ecosystem has countless programmers, contributors, and builders working to decentralize data. The interviews these builders and shares their stories, shedding light on how they envision the future of the decentralized internet.
2. Coinbase Earn
Coinbase is a popular cryptocurrency exchange platform. Coinbase makes it easy to learn about The Graph with a short, but informative, text-and-visual course. By watching a few videos, and taking a quiz, you can earn GRT through the . In order to earn GRT through the program, you will need an eligible Coinbase account.
3. The Graph Academy
is a free, open-source and community-driven knowledge base on The Graph, which hosts extensive on the protocol along with in-depth guides on how to in the network. The Graph Academy is home to many easy-to-follow video tutorials and is updated with contributions from The Graph community.
4. The Graph Codex
The Graph Codex is another community-driven knowledge base. The codex has a strong emphasis on including external links to a variety of resources across the ecosystem. !
5. The Graph YouTube Channel
The Graph’s YouTube channel hosts a variety of content from , , and . and stay up-to-date on the latest happenings and educational resources in The Graph ecosystem!
6. The Index
is a podcast sponsored by The Graph Foundation that features interviews with web3 founders, technologists, investors, and open-source developers building the next wave of the internet. It’s an excellent resource for learning both more about The Graph and general themes surfacing in web3.
7. Documentation
The Graph Docs provides technical instructions on how to participate in the network. You can learn how to a subgraph, a subgraph, , subgraphs, GRT to Indexers, and so much more!
Join a Graph community
The Graph ecosystem is powered by a diverse set of communities around the world, with a wide variety of digital hubs – you’re sure to make friends and meet like-minded individuals across the globe in the communities supporting The Graph.
8. Graph Advocates
Love to learn through immersion? is a community-led and community-driven portal into web3 for people all across the world. Graph Advocates create educational content about The Graph, collaborate and network with other members, attend hackathons and local events, and more.
Advocates can also partake in governance & community grants disbursement through the .
and discover a collaborative and supportive community championing web3 with The Graph.
9. Graphrica
is a community empowering web3 developers to learn subgraph development from experts in Africa, while sharing questions, ideas and opportunities in a collaborative and inclusive community for the whole continent and the world.
10. Official Telegram Channel
The Graph’s official Telegram group is an excellent channel where community members can connect, collaborate and learn from one another.
Learn how you can get involved with one of The Graph’s biggest communities on .
11. Discord Server
The Graph’s Discord is a hub for everyone in the ecosystem. In The Graph’s Discord, you’ll find specific channels for each and every role including Delegators, Subgraph Developers, Indexers and Curators—making it easy to collaborate across diverse themes or participation methods in The Graph Network.
Building something brand new for web3 on The Graph? Share your idea in The Graph Discord, where you can discover and build teams to build subgraph-powered dapps with!
12. The Graph Forum
Want to see and participate in discussions that shape the evolution of The Graph Network? The Graph Forum is home to several key conversations about the future of the protocol. GIPs (Graph Improvement Proposals) are discussed primarily in the forum. All members of the community are invited to share their thoughts on changes in the protocol, participating alongside members of the core dev teams and The Graph Foundation.
Anyone can make an account and !
Plug into Graph community events
There are a variety of regular community events you can attend to learn more about both The Graph and web3 at large. These events range from local in-person hackathons and events organized by Graph Advocates to online events, like Indexer Office Hours, which are geared toward learning how to run an indexing node. Choose the ones that cater most to your interests—or partake in them all!
13. The Graph Participant Update
The Graph is a vast protocol with many moving parts and contributors—so it’s helpful to have succinct summaries of ecosystem updates. That’s the purpose of The Graph Participant Update! It’s an easy-to-consume quarterly “State of the Protocol” that outlines achievements and milestones completed in The Graph ecosystem, along with looking at the road ahead.
During this update, leading Graph ecosystem experts and contributors provide an overview of protocol developments, network adoption, and answer questions from the community.
Read more about . All updates are available on .
14. Core Dev Meetings
Core developers working in The Graph ecosystem hold monthly to keep the community up to date on development progress and milestones achieved on The Graph’s . These meetings offer a great balance between technical and product updates.
Each core dev call is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to attend. You can easily add calls to your .
All calls are also recorded and posted to The Graph’s .
15. Community Talk
run a monthly meeting called Community Talk on the third Tuesday of each month. Each event is hosted in The Graph . This event is tailored for a non-technical audience looking to learn more about The Graph and meet contributors who are working on improving The Graph.
Keep track of each Community Talk on the and start tuning in to learn how The Graph is constantly evolving!
16. Discord Workshops
Members of The Graph community regularly host workshops walking through key web3 tools and tech needed to build decentralized applications. Previous workshops have included topics on Rust, Substreams, Launchpad, and more.
These workshops are perfect for a seasoned pro who wants to network with other experts, or for newbies looking for help to get started.
Learn about upcoming workshops via The Graph’s .
17. Attend Hackathons & Events
The Graph ecosystem regularly contributes to hackathons and events around the world. The Graph Foundation also frequently sponsors bounties at hackathons.
Graph Advocates often organize these events to foster collaboration and community in web3. Graph Advocates have also supported many exciting live events, including the grand opening of The House of Web3 and Graph Day 2022.
you can get involved with live events.
Become a network participant
The Graph’s decentralized network is powered by individual network participants. Each network role has a dedicated community for supporting members who work to power The Graph.
, and then discover the communities associated with those roles!
18. Graphtronauts
The are a community to inspire and enable Delegators. They educate Delegators on the delegation process, portfolio management, and Indexer selection.
Graphtronauts release a weekly news bulletin, providing Delegators with helpful information for building a long-term understanding of web3 and The Graph.
Learn more about the or learn how to .
19. Curation Station
The Curation Station community offers Curators crucial curation insights, suggesting criteria by which to select subgraphs to signal on, so that Indexers know which subgraphs to index.
The Curation Station is a Telegram community that helps Curators collaborate.
20. Subgraph DAO
Subgraphs comprise web3’s data layer. They’re decentralized and open source APIs—so anyone can use them!
Want to contribute to building subgraphs? Join SubgraphDAO, create subgraphs, and apply for subgraph bounties & migration grants.
Already a subgraph developer? Learn more about ! Want to start building subgraphs? Learn how to .
21. Migration Infrastructure Program
The Migration Infrastructure Providers program bootstraps Indexers & aspiring Indexers to add support for new chains on the decentralized network.
Ready to index multiple chains? .
22. Indexer Office Hours
Indexers and those interested in indexing are encouraged to attend (IOH). There is a meeting every Tuesday at 17:00-18:00 UTC. Any and all questions are welcome.
The meeting takes place on in the .
It’s an informal drop-in event for anyone to get advice on indexing. It’s also an opportunity to get answers to specific questions you may have related to indexing.
All Indexer Office Hours are recorded, and you can view all the past calls on . Want to contribute to indexing the world’s data alongside IOH participants? Learn how to !
23. Start a career on a core dev team
There are six core development teams working to improve and expand The Graph to power decentralized data around the world. Contribute to making the world’s data easily accessible by !
Edge & Node
The original team that launched The Graph founded Edge & Node to continue improving the protocol.
is dedicated to improving all aspects of The Graph, from protocol design to building new robust features. Edge & Node is on a mission to solve the world’s biggest challenges with web3.
StreamingFast
is a core developer focusing on building scalable, multichain infrastructure. Members from StreamingFast are working on and to make indexing speeds magnitudes faster.
Semiotic Labs
is a group of AI and cryptography experts contributing to the economic design of The Graph Network through reinforcement learning and other innovative tools.
Members from Semiotic Labs are working on Snark Force, protocol economics, protocol and network operations, and improving the Indexer Experience.
The Guild
is a group of open source developers seasoned in all things GraphQL. The Guild contributes subgraph tooling and GraphQL API improvements.
Messari
is a team of data experts building tools that make blockchain trends and insights more transparent.
Messari is a core subgraph developer, standardizing subgraph development while building subgraphs as public goods.
GraphOps
is a blockchain data infrastructure company building new features on The Graph. The team is working on protocol & network operations and improving Indexer experience.
The Graph ecosystem grows with you
The Graph has a wide range of opportunities for community members to get involved. From proposing protocol changes on the forum, to onboarding web3’s next billion users as a Graph Advocate, the opportunity to grow is here for anyone, at any skill level.
is currently being redesigned to foster more opportunity for community participation—stay tuned!
About The Graph
is the source of data and information for the decentralized internet. As the original decentralized data marketplace that introduced and standardized subgraphs, The Graph has become web3’s method of indexing and accessing blockchain data. Since its launch in 2018, tens of thousands of developers have for dapps across 80+ blockchains - including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Celo, Fantom, Gnosis, and Avalanche.
As demand for data in web3 continues to grow, The Graph enters a with a more expansive vision including new data services and query languages, ensuring the decentralized protocol can serve any use case - now and into the future.
Discover more about how The Graph is shaping the future of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and stay connected with the community. Follow The Graph on , , , , , and . Join the community on The Graph’s , join technical discussions on The Graph’s .
oversees The Graph Network. The Graph Foundation is overseen by the . , , , , , and are eight of the many organizations within The Graph ecosystem.
