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From one of our community members. Thanks Leo! For the fellow newbies, I took notes when starting this journey. I wrote a couple of posts I hope are helpful if you are setting up your own node with TrueBlocks. Please note I focus on doing analytics. Storing and accessing the data are the most important factors for me. Thanks to everybody for the patience and helping me with all the issues!

Eth accounting is identical Token accounting is improved in these ways: Intra block token accounting Account for every Transfer event If a balance is incorrect, do one of three things: If the transaction contains a “large” input, and the event says something transferred, but the balances don’t change, lable probably-spam and add a field called removal of phony transfer in If the function is one of a very small number of common mint functions, assign to knownMint field If the function is one of a very small number of common burn methods, assign to a knownBurn field If the balance goes up - label the transation as implied-mint and add to a feild called impliedMint If the balance goes down - label the reconciliation as impied-burn and add to a field called impliedBurn Bugs fixed: In previous code, if a token transacted multple times in a single block the entire net transfer was assigned to the first transfer.

A few of your more frequently asked questions Are there ways to get ERC20 token balance for a given account address? Yes. There is. In fact, this is one of TrueBlocks’ most important features. Simply do chifra export --statements <address(es)> or query the API serve with http://localhost:8080/export?addr=<address>&statements. Note that chifra export has many, many other options which produce similarly-informative data such as --logs, --appearances, --neighbors, --accounting, and so on. See the entire help file with chifra export --help.

Have you ever had the desire to look at every trace of every transaction of every block on every blockchain? Yes? Well, pull up a chair and visit with us for a while. It’s a Multi-Chain World I’m sure many of you are aware of the coming “multi-chain” universe of blockchains. You know the one. The one where all sorts of little baby communities of people are going to be doing all sorts of little baby community-like things.

One of our users (Magnus Hansson) has written an excellent article on how to install all three of Erigon, Erigon’s RPC, and TrueBlocks as serives on Ubuntu. How to set up Erigon, Erigon’s RPC and TrueBlocks as services Not only that – the blog post is visually wonderful as well. Thanks Magnus. Looking for some amazing data science from this quarter. Cheers.

Here’s links to a few other articles we published in 2021 on Medium. The Rent is Too Damn High The Rent is Too Damn High - Part II Adventures in Difficulty Bombing Calling Smart Contracts with chifra state --call Commanding the Line Compacting ERC20 Logs

Pintail (twitter) wrote an amazing article on EIP-1559 and its effect on the Ethereum gas market. He used TrueBlocks to extract a bunch of his data. We get a nice mention at the end. Thanks for the kind words, Pintail!