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Curators

Signal tells indexers which subgraphs are worth serving. It is a bet on future query demand, and on Arbitrum the shape of that bet changed.

5 entries 58 min to read through intermediate
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What signal does

  1. What curation is for Signal is the protocol's answer to a scheduling problem: which of thousands of subgraphs should scarce indexing capacity be pointed at, before anyone has queried them? 11 min
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The mechanics

  1. Signal, shares, and the deposit that is burned What you actually hold when you signal, how your claim is calculated, and where the deposit charge goes. 12 min
  2. The flat curve on Arbitrum Curation on L1 rewarded arriving early. On Arbitrum it does not. An entire genre of curation strategy became obsolete, and it is still being taught. 10 min
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Strategy and risk

  1. Strategy, and the risk nobody names Curation cannot be slashed, which leads people to describe it as low risk. Losing capital slowly to a forecast that was wrong is still losing capital. 13 min
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Practicum

  1. Making a forecast yourself Find a real subgraph, judge whether it will be queried, and check whether anything is actually serving it. 12 min

Elsewhere

This collection explains why. Two other places carry the rest.

The procedure Official curating guide Exact steps, flags and configuration, maintained by the people who ship the code. This site does not duplicate them and never will. The live numbers Curation data on Lodestar Nothing here updates on its own. Live stake, signal, fees and indexer performance come from a dashboard reading the network.