Analogy: Subgraphs and Smart Contracts #subgraph #thegraph #blockchain #fyp #shorts #fypシ #viral

Assume that you created a smart contract that does a specific thing and you deployed it maybe to the Ethereum blockchain, for example. You can take the smart contract or the contract itself and build a subgraph, which is basically an API from The Graph protocol. It's like an API, like how you would think of APIs in the Web2 sense of things. But in this case, that contract, you can build a subgraph from that and any data that's emitted from that subgraph, for example, or that contract in this case, gets tracked by The Graph and it's indexed and people are able to query that data from that. For example, let's say you created a smart contract that mints NFTs for whatever, maybe your own, put your name there, NFT, right? In this case, your NFT will emit some data. Maybe when somebody mints the NFT, there's going to be data emitted from that, from that transaction, and subsequent sales of that NFT or transfers of ownership is also being tracked. It's emitted by the contract. In this case, The Graph, using the subgraph that's created for that smart contract, will be able to track that data that's emitted by that