The Graph Price Prediction 2022-2030: Is GRT a Good Investment?

Have you ever heard of Uniswap, Aave, Compound, Balancer, USDC, Synthetix, Sushiswap, MakerDAO, Yearn, Curve, or any popular dApps? They all functionally rely upon The Graph, which is like a combination of decentralized versions of Google, banking, social media, other service providers, and other industries.

There will be thousands of blockchain networks indexed by The Graph, millions of dApps/subgraphs, and trillions of daily queries in the future. Imagine everyone using their phone to transact, refresh, and interact with media/applications requiring The Graph data. Currently, there are 10-15 layer one blockchain networks (Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, Polygon, and others) and hundreds of popular dApps using The Graph. 

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10-15 layer one blockchain networks and 100s dApps use The Graph

Before The Graph (GRT) existed, developers who wanted to create decentralized apps needed to index all of Ethereum’s data manually, which could take multiple developers months-years minimum to complete. The Graph indexes the previously unorganized blockchain data and makes it organized and more accessible for developers to create applications.

Today’s The Graph price is $0.164637 with a 24-hour trading volume of $64,687,135. The Graph is up 7.32% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #51, with a live market cap of $1,135,992,938. It has a circulating supply of 6,900,000,000 GRT coins and a max. supply of 10,057,044,431 GRT coins.

This guide provides pertinent information about the network, the Graph price today, its historical performance, and its prospects. Also, it gives a detailed Graph technical analysis and predictions for informational purposes.

What is the Graph?

The Graph network is a decentralized data querying and indexing protocol that allows seamless data sharing across applications and the blockchain. It is the first blockchain-based querying and indexing platform in the crypto sphere. Since its inception in 2018, it has hit several billions of data queries. In April 2021 alone, the Graph has processed over 20 billion data queries and has continued to gain more traction. It utilizes an ERC-20 token – GRT.

The blockchain, a decentralized database, is no doubt one of the revolutionary technologies of the modern age. It offers innumerable advantages over traditional database systems and finds application in every facet of our everyday lives. Some networks fail to quickly process and retrieve data from various apps on the network. This phenomenon is generally referred to as the “Blockchain Indexing problem.”

Like search engines’ webpage indexing, the Graph indexes data from supported blockchain networks like ETH, Arbitrum, Celo, XDAI, FANTOM, Avalanche, IPFS, BSC, Polygon, and PoA networks. The indexed data is grouped into subgraphs called publicly available APIs or open APIs accessible to developers. As of 2020, over 2300 subgraphs have been rolled out for several network participants.

After the institution of the Graph mainnet, the project created a viable environment for the absolute decentralization of Apps and ease of access to data on the blockchain. With its introduction of open APIs, developers and other participants on the network can easily create subgraphs to query, index, and fetch information for various DApps. Furthermore, the network’s functionality depends on Graph Nodes that execute a thorough scan of the blockchain’s database.

Indexing ensures that data structures about their use by DApps are defined. For efficient operations, the Graph requires the support of Indexers, Delegators, and Curators, all of whom make indexing services available to end-users, stake GRT tokens to protect the Graph network, and receive GRT tokens in reward payments. The incentivization of the contribution by developers and other participants to the network ensures that they provide accurate data and improve APIs. Also, end-users who query subgraphs get to pay GRT tokens to contributors via a gateway.

Indexers (yes, humans) create subgraphs and maintain them with the most accurate and up-to-date information. They are incentivized to do so because they receive both GRT rewards for indexing and a cut of the GRT query fees earned by the subgraphs they are indexing. dApps have already openly expressed that The Graph makes it easier to keep the indexes updated and maintained. The dApp developers don’t have to waste their time/resources to maintain their indexes. They prefer using The Graph versus drudging through the data themselves and maintaining their indexes.

The Graph offers developers cost-efficient, secure and intuitive APIs. Also, DApps can add data to the Ethereum network using smart contracts. Some of the fastest-growing DeFi platforms use the APIs provided by this network in the cryptosphere; Synthetix, Aragon, AAVE, DAOstack, Balancer, and Uniswap leverage this innovation to enhance data responsiveness.

The Graph Overview

Graph Overview

CoinSymbolPriceMarketcapChangeLast 24hSupplyVolume (24h)
the-graph
GRT$ 0.102023$ 755.15 M5.04%7.40 B$ 76.43 M