The Graph

The Graph's founding team consists of professionals with experience from organizations such as the Ethereum Foundation, OpenZeppelin, Decentraland, Orchid, MuleSoft (leading up to its IPO and acquisition by Salesforce), Puppet, Red Hat, and Barclays. The key founders of The Graph are not explicitly named on the CoinMarketCap page. However, it states that the project was founded by a team of professionals with backgrounds in Ethereum, decentralized applications, and enterprise software development.

The Graph has built an open data layer on top of blockchains, leveraging Ethereum archive nodes to power its Graph Nodes. Indexers can run their own Ethereum archive nodes to operate a Graph Node, or they can utilize node operators like Infura or Alchemy. This architecture ensures the security and reliability of the data served by the network. Indexers are incentivized to maintain high-quality, up-to-date indexing of blockchain data to serve subgraph queries efficiently and accurately. Additionally, any analytics company can build applications to query the subgraph data that has been indexed by The Graph network. This open data model allows for transparency and auditability, as the subgraphs act as open APIs to access blockchain data in a seamless and efficient manner. By leveraging the security of the underlying blockchains and incentivizing reliable data indexing, The Graph has built a decentralized and secure network to power Web3 data queries and analytics.

To fund network development, The Graph raised funds from a variety of sources, including community members, strategic venture capital firms, and influential individuals in the blockchain community. This includes investments from Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework, ParaFi Capital, CoinFund, DTC, Multicoin, Reciprocal Ventures, SPC, and Tally Capital, among others. Additionally, The Graph Foundation successfully completed a public GRT token sale with participation from 99 countries (excluding the United States).