Explained
Hardware Wallet or Software Wallet: Which Do You Need?
In plain English Hardware is meaningfully safer for larger amounts, because the keys never touch an internet-connected machine.
The Graph Price
GRT · rank #130
$0.0141
-0.43%
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Market cap
$147.23M
24h volume
$5.68M
Circulating
10,507,956,263 GRT
Maximum supply
10,800,262,823 GRT
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What is The Graph, simply?
The Graph solves an unglamorous but real problem: blockchain data is very hard to search.
A blockchain is a sequential list of transactions. It is excellent at proving what happened and terrible at answering a question like "show me everything this wallet did with this application last month". Answering that directly means reading through enormous amounts of raw data.
The Graph indexes blockchain data so applications can query it quickly, in much the way a search engine indexes the web so you do not have to read every page. Applications pay for those queries, and the people who run the indexing infrastructure earn GRT for providing it.
A simple way to picture it
The index at the back of a book. The book already contains everything; the index is what makes it possible to find one fact without reading cover to cover.
Should GRT be your first crypto?
No. This is infrastructure sold to developers, and its value depends on how many applications pay for indexing — something a beginner has no practical way to assess.
If you do buy GRT, store it safely
Crypto left on an exchange is held by that exchange, not by you. For anything you would mind losing, move it to a wallet whose keys you control, and write the recovery phrase on paper — never in a photo, a notes app or an email. No exchange, wallet, support agent or website, including this one, will ever need your seed phrase. Anyone who asks for it is stealing from you.
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The Graph questions beginners ask
Why can't applications just read the blockchain?
They can, but it is slow and expensive for anything beyond a simple lookup. Blockchains are built to prove history, not to answer complex questions about it quickly.
What is GRT used for?
Paying for queries and rewarding the people who run indexing services. It is a payment and incentive token for the network's own economy.
Does it only work with Ethereum?
It started with Ethereum and has extended to other networks. Coverage varies, and which chains are supported changes over time.
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The Graph categories & ecosystems
- Infrastructure Plumbing other crypto applications rely on — storage, data, computing.
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