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Introducing Ponder

Rapid custom indexing for any EVM smart contract

Ponder is an open-source framework for building fast, reliable,and maintainable backend software in crypto.

Powerful local development server

Build faster & stay unblocked with hot reloading

Fast & lean

Ponder indexes ~10x faster than Graph Protocol subgraphs

Type safe

End-to-end type safety & autocomplete with no codegen

One-click deploys

Deploy anywhere that runs Node.js with zero downtime & horizontal scaling

Benchmarks

37s

6m 40s

Sync (Cold)
Sync (Cache)
RPC Credits
Ponder
37s
5s
108k
The Graph
5m 28s
1m 15s
167k

Results of indexing the Rocket Pool ERC20 token contract on mainnet from block 18,600,000 to 18,718,056 (latest) on an M1 MacBook Pro (8 core, 16GB RAM) against an Alchemy node on the Growth plan using a 950MB/s network connection.

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