Essays

Writing

Essays and working notes on open knowledge, creative tools, ownership, and The Graph. The project notes connect the ideas to things you can explore or build on.

• An open workbench

  Edited November 2, 2026

  A starting point for Geo Companion, Way Music, and the tools behind a place to publish your own work.

• Ownership: The Importance of Stake

  Edited April 1, 2024

  An essay on ownership, stake, and aligned incentives in The Graph — from a 2020 bull-market wake-up call to taking the work of the protocol seriously.

• The World of Data Services

  A concise review of data platforms, and why a competitive decentralized network like The Graph matters for analysts and builders.

• Adding SQL to The Graph

  Notes from Core Dev Call 26: SQL is coming to The Graph via StreamingFast, DBT, ClickHouse, and deployable units.

• StreamingFast and Substreams

  An introduction to Substreams and Firehose — how StreamingFast sped up indexing on The Graph without giving up verifiability.

• Curating on The Graph

  Why you should consider being a Curator on The Graph, told through teaching, delegation, and a first curation journey.

• Web3 is what you do

  A call to action: web3 is defined by work, not argument. How to get involved even if you cannot code.

• The Graph is a Work Token

  A short summary of work tokens in crypto, with The Graph as the example, following Jose Maria Macedo.