Collection

Indexers

Run the stack, provision stake against a data service, prove you did the work, and get paid without anyone having to trust you.

11 entries 143 min to read through advanced
01

The job

  1. What an indexer actually does Four services, one obligation, and a set of decisions the software will not make for you. The job is not running a node. 13 min
  2. Should you index, or just delegate? An honest decision guide, written to talk you out of it if the honest answer is no. Most people asking this question should delegate. 11 min
02

The economics

  1. Exponential rebates, and why Cobb-Douglas had to go Your rebate now depends only on your own stake and your own fees. Under the old mechanism it depended on what everyone else did, and over half of query fees were burned. 15 min
  2. Getting paid: receipts, RAVs and GraphTally Every query carries a signed receipt. Receipts aggregate into vouchers, vouchers settle on chain, and one configuration value decides how much you are prepared to lose if it goes wrong. 14 min
03

Horizon mechanics

  1. Provisions: staking against a service Horizon turned one staking pool into stake provisioned to named data services, each with its own rules, its own thawing, and its own slashing. 12 min
  2. Allocations, POIs, and the gap between protocol and practice The protocol now permits allocations that stay open indefinitely. The shipped stack still recycles them. Both facts are true and you need both to plan capacity. 14 min
04

Operations

  1. Running the stack, conceptually What each component needs, how they fail, and which failures are silent. Not an installation guide, because the docs maintain that and it changes. 13 min
  2. Cost models and indexing rules Two configuration surfaces that decide most of your revenue: what you charge for a query, and what you agree to index at all. 12 min
  3. Disputes, arbitration and flexible slashing What can actually get you slashed, who decides, how much it costs, and the cheap habits that keep you out of it. 12 min
  4. Rewards eligibility: the gate nobody told you about Since GIP-0079 indexing rewards are gated on serving real gateway traffic. The criterion is smaller than people assume, and it is measured somewhere you cannot see. 11 min
05

Practicum

  1. Before you commit stake Test the economics rather than the trivia, then plan the monitoring you would need before you allocate anything real. 16 min

Elsewhere

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

The procedure Official indexing overview 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 Indexing on Lodestar Nothing here updates on its own. Live stake, signal, fees and indexer performance come from a dashboard reading the network.