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SubQuery Data Indexing Support for Secret Network
Lead Applicant Name: Brittany Seales & James Bayly
Lead Applicant Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
Telegram Handle: @brittanyseales @jamesbayly
Project Name: SubQuery Pte Ltd
Relevant links: SubQuery | Discord | Twitter | Youtube | LinkedIn | Medium | LinkTree
Project Description
SubQuery's mission is to make decentralised data more accessible. SubQuery is your own custom open-source API between blockchain data and your dApps and tools. Our indexer works on Ethereum, Polygon, BNB, Arbitrum, Optimism, Gnosis, Polkadot, Substrate, Avalanche, Cosmos, Near, Flare and Algorand chains, and then provides that data for developers to use for a wide array of projects (wallets, explorers, custom chains, or any other decentralised app).
We have three products:
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An open source SDK, which includes the instructions on how any Indexer should traverse the blockchain, what data to collect, and how it should be shown to users.
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A Managed Service, which provides enterprise level hosting (99.9% uptime) for SubQuery projects by our team (with a generous free tier)
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A decentralised SubQuery Network. With the testnet just finished, we are about to launch a first version of the SubQuery Network. The SubQuery Network is our effort to move towards a decentralised and tokenised network in order to ensure no single point of failure and superior performance for SubQuery. It will support Secret Network from genesis and will encourage as many participants in the process as possible.
In our view, the Secret Network ecosystem is poised for an extreme growth period and it requires tools such as SubQuery in order to thrive.
What Problem Does SubQuery Solve?
Almost every blockchain has a need to process and query data, however everyone knows that a core weakness of blockchain data is that the processing and query performance is extremely inefficient. SubQuery is an open source platform that solves that and provides a more performant and feature-rich alternative to The Graph.
Got to Market Plan
SubQuery is an established project launched early 2021. We've been building and scaling our tool to hundreds of customers across 12 different layer 1s (Ethereum, Polygon, BNB, Optimism, Arbitrum, Gnosis, Substrate/Polkadot, Avalanche, Cosmos, Near, Flare and Algorand) for some time now. We have a proven product with large customers across most verticals (wallets, deFi, NFTs, gameFi, explorers) etc. You can see some examples of projects using SubQuery in our public explorer.
Value to Secret Network
SubQuery is an incredibly useful tool that developers can use to build dApps faster. It provides a critical level of infrastructure that developers need to access, organise, and utilise data efficiently. By supporting Secret, we will allow our existing customers to easily migrate over to Secret Network from other ecosystems by providing a common tool. We specialise in new layer-1 chains, and our customers generally take a cross chain approach to development.
We are in complete agreement with Secret's mission to give everyone the freedom to choose what they share - SubQuery is designed to be a tool that supports this. Our goals have always been to build tools and services that accelerate the world's transition to web3 and Secret Network is a fascinating layer 1 that has attracted a large developer base.
About our Team
Based in New Zealand, the inception of SubQuery occurred in February 2021 and since then the below core team of 4 has rapidly grown to more than 20 members spread across New Zealand, Singapore and Portugal. We're a high performing team, mostly comprised of software developers, devOps engineers, and business development staff with a track record of experience in extending our tooling to different layer 1 chains.
Sam Zou - CEO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-zou-5b8169a/)
Entrepreneur, Investors and more than 20 years of IT experience specialising in infrastructure and cloud service design
Ian He - CTO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yin-he-7a266345/)
Blockchain Architect, Contributor of polkadot-js, Early adopter of substrate technology and won second place in the first polkadot hackathon.
James Bayly - COO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bayly/)
Software engineer with experience creating and growing 3 startups over the past 5 years
Development Roadmap / Project Goals
This funding grant aims to help us to build the next stage of our vision for SubQuery to become a multi-chain tool - SubQuery support encompassing Secret Network through full testing and implementation.
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The SubQuery SDK will be open-sourced / free for the Secret community and (test) network agnostic
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The SubQuery Hosted Service will be available for free for all customers on Secret (up to a basic level with paid enterprise level support for larger ones to cover infrastructure costs)
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The decentralised SubQuery Network will be fully compatible with Secret Network
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We will deliver a considerable amount of developer documentation, tutorials, and example projects that will help developers in your ecosystem build
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Our BD teams will reach out to multiple developers in your ecosystem make themselves available for any demos or workshops
Milestones and Cost Projection
| Deliverable | Time (FTE Days) |
|---|---|
| Create a new data source processor for Secret Network | 8 |
| Define new manifest structure and update SubQuery CLI | 3 |
| Import and manage Secret ABIs | 2 |
| Create basic documentation for Secret support | 3 |
| Create end to end developer tutorial (written and video) | 3 |
| Project Management | 3 |
| Milestone 1 Time | 22 |
| Resource | Quantity (Days) | Day Rate (USD) | Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineers | 17 | $900 | $15,300 |
| Project Managers | 5 | $900 | $4,500 |
| Milestone 1 Total Cost (USD) | $19,800 |
Additional Information
Additional information such as our competitive advantages, business model and growth strategy can be found in the full proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bwDawsjsVDiQibyl4xQno4PsuguGRX1XJ_YDAz8Sp2Q/edit?usp=sharing
Hi @brittanyseales , and thank you for taking the time to apply this grant request. I want to learn more about the project. Please reach out to me - @Yonatan_SCRTLabs and (tg)
Hi @YonatanE22 & Secret Team,
Further to our discussion we have updated our Milestone 1 deliverables and cost projection to bring the total grant requested amount down to $13,950. Our proposal still encompasses complete SubQuery indexing support for Secret Network + documentation.
Updated table below as well as the full proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bwDawsjsVDiQibyl4xQno4PsuguGRX1XJ_YDAz8Sp2Q/edit?usp=sharing
| Deliverable | Time (FTE Days) |
|---|---|
| Test and create a new boilerplate project for Secret network | 3 |
| Test and create a new example project for Secret network that indexes real world usecase data | 4.5 |
| Import and manage Secret Protobufs | 2 |
| Create basic documentation for secret support | 2 |
| Create end to end developer tutorial (written) | 1 |
| Project Management | 3 |
| Milestone 1 Time | 15.5 |
| Resource | Quantity (Days) | Day Rate (USD) | Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineers | 12.5 | $900 | $11,250 |
| Project Managers | 3 | $900 | $2,700 |
| Milestone 1 Cost (USD) | $13,950 |
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.