Couldn’t make it to the Solving the Pains of Indexing on Solana talk at the @SolanaConf yesterday?

Here’s a quick recap of what the @streamingfastio PM brought to the table:

1⃣ Indexing’s role in Solana

Substreams on The Graph helps developers extract, transform & serve on-chain data at scale - beyond traditional limitations. This unlocks custom filtering, fast reads, and permissionless access across Solana.

2️⃣ What Solana infra still needs

• Archive node to backfill account state from genesis

• Stable IDL versioning for backward compatibility

• Unified IDL decoding standards

These changes could make Solana much more developer-friendly.

3️⃣ Enterprise onboarding

Most enterprises don’t want to maintain complex infra. Substreams on The Graph provide general-purpose infra for any read use case - reducing cost, complexity, and time to market.

4️⃣ How The Graph handles Solana’s high TPS

With Substreams, we built a blazing-fast, parallelized streaming engine tailored for Solana’s speed. It supports real-time data with 1.5s block times and handles re-orgs with ease.

Substreams are powering real-time indexing for Solana’s builders, at scale ⚡️