unlock VS graph-node

Unlock is a great decentralized tool that doesn't require members to be familiar with web3 to get started.

This is exactly how something like Unlock Protocol works.

https://unlock-protocol.com/ nft membership

I'll name you several.

Copied from another reply I made, here's some projects to check out:

- Lens Protocol [https://lens.xyz/ (one example implementation: https://lenster.xyz/)] is an early social network built on top of Polygon.

- Farcaster [https://farcaster.xyz/] is another one, that takes a more hybrid approach of using Ethereum for trustless identity, but stores social stuff in a "sufficiently decentralized" way.

- ENS [https://ens.domains/] is a universal username system.

- Unlock Protocol [https://unlock-protocol.com/] uses NFTs for tradeable subscriptions, event tickets, etc.

- Radicle [https://radicle.xyz/] is a decentralized Github basically, that (optionally) uses Ethereum to store the Git HEAD of a "project" essentially.

- Arweave [https://www.arweave.org/] stores files permanently using a cool "endowment" mechanism. Currently, the network has secured its storage for like 1000 years in theory.

If you haven't seen it, you were not interested in looking and I doubt that any "evangelist" is going to change your mind.

Anyway, if you are honestly open to change your mind, go take a look at ENS domains [0] and unlock protocol [1]. Both of these are applications that use NFTs "properly", and allow us to do things that are currently possible only with a central authority.

[0]: https://ens.domains

[1]: https://unlock-protocol.com

If you want to go with the crypto route, that's the main goal of Unlock Protocol. It's basically one of the first use cases (beyond ENS domains) where NFTs actually make sense.

Look at Unlock Protocol (https://unlock-protocol.com/) and Lit (https://litprotocol.com/) for token gated content

All their code is public, https://github.com/unlock-protocol/unlock, you just need to follow the MIT license https://github.com/unlock-protocol/unlock/blob/master/LICENSE

A subgraph according to The Graph (which is a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data) is a custom API built on blockchain data. They are queried using the GraphQL query language and are deployed to a Graph Node using the Graph CLI.

Event is a log entity which EVM smart contracts can emit during transaction execution. Events are very good at signalling that an some action has taken place on-chain. Applications can subscribe and listen to events to trigger some off-chain logic or they can index, transform and store events in some off-chain storage (look at The Graph protocol or Ethereum ETL).

Subgraph cloned from repo :https://github.com/graphprotocol/graph-node/tree/master/docker

https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2 this repo comes with wagmi and hard hat preconfigured you can use it as a sample , but if you are large querying data I would advise you the graph https://thegraph.com/

The Graph

There are also decentralized network services like The Graph or Pocket Network that provide decentralized access to Ethereum and other blockchain networks. Note that these services primarily provide APIs for querying blockchain data, and may not provide full functionality for sending transactions or executing smart contracts like a full Ethereum node or services like Infura and Alchemy.

For read-only the way to use The Graph

See it for yourself.

thegraph.com is the only site operated by The Graph Foundation, and is the centrepiece for all activity on the protocol. Can a website/web dApp be hacked? Yes. Has it been hacked in the past two years since it launched? No.

Check out TheGraph, most of DEX has a subgraph indexing data