GRT explained with animation, the clearest beginner explanation I have found

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The three-role structure that the animation makes clear:

- **Indexers**, run nodes, process and store subgraph data, earn query fees and GRT rewards

- **Curators**, signal which subgraphs are high quality by staking GRT, earn a share of query fees from those subgraphs

- **Delegators**, stake GRT with indexers without running infrastructure, earn a portion of indexer rewards

The 90+ chains supported means The Graph indexing infrastructure serves most of the meaningful Web3 ecosystem.

The animation format makes the incentive model digestible for people who would switch off at a technical whitepaper. Would better data querying change the dApps you are able to build or use?

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chain_expand Apr 12, 2026
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The 90-plus chain support is the moat that most analysis undersells. Each additional chain supported is not just an incremental expansion. It is a new ecosystem of developers reaching for the standard tooling stack for indexing, finding The Graph already there and integrated, and defaulting to it for new projects. The default-to-The-Graph behaviour in developer communities is what compounds the network effect over time.
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medium_match Jun 29, 2026
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The animated explanation format is genuinely worth calling out as the right medium for this specific concept. The relationship between indexers, curators and delegators is a graph of economic relationships that is much easier to understand visually than through text description alone. It is one of those rare cases where the medium genuinely matches the content in a way that makes the explanation more effective rather than just more engaging.

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