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How do decentralized applications get data from underlying sources and transform it in meaningful ways? Yaniv Tal is the Project Lead at The Graph, a new decentralized query and indexing protocol for Web3 making data easily available to developers using GraphQL. ##Getting data from blockchains is difficult Anyone building smart contracts on a blockchain like Ethereum will need to access specific data with queries, and to do those kinds of queries, indexes are needed, which will be application specific. The founders of The Graph realized early on when building on Ethereum that this indexing later was a missing part of the stack, and people were creating their own proprietary indexing servers. They felt that this really broke many of the benefits that you would want out of building with Web3, and so they built The Graph. ##The Graph and GraphQL The Graph is a query and indexing protocol for Web3 that indexes data from blockchains and storage networks to make it easily available to developers over GraphQL, a que