The Graph Substreams Tames Solana Data

If you’ve used Solana (SOL), you’ve been there - blazing fast transactions but a huge pain to manage once you need to open up some historical data or start tracking changes to an account in-real-time. Yes, you can use getProgramAccounts, but let's face it - it’s downright slow, frequently rate limited, and barely even scratches the surface of historical data. 

Enter The Graph's (GRT) Substreams, a convenient way to monitor Solana accounts changes, complete with full history and automatic decoding.

Now instead of smashing public RPCs until they break, Substreams bakes you a heavy duty gRPC pipeline for streaming block data. You have a nice 90-day history window - great for the vast majority of backfills - plus live updates that actually work for handling chain reorgs!

Take Helium (HNT), for example. For years, they’d been juggling Yellowstone for real-time data and also running a separate system to track account deletions. Pretty clunky, right? Enter substreams, which cleaned that system up by consolidating everything under one roof. It automatically handles reorgs, so you never encounter sheared data from rolled-back blocks. 

And it can decode data from all the major Solana programs, like Metaplex or Helium, out of the box - no more struggling with raw bytes. You can scale your off chain processing up or down as you see fit, and if you only care for some accounts, just toss the rest away. 

That’s because every block event and account change is streamed in real-time - big for things like NFT marketplaces, analytics dashboards or cross-chain oracles that require timely on-chain data.

Bottom line: If you’re building on Solana and you’re tired of duct-taping everything together or you can’t stand your RPC end points crawl, take a look at Substreams. It provides you with real time fork handlings, clean historical data, decoded data without the hassle. 

It’s pretty much the thing every Solana dev wishes they had from the beginning.

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