Unchained index
Unchained Index allows blazingly fast, perfectly-private access to any account anywhere on the chain.
Benefits of unchaining the index
We’ve written a lot about the Unchained Index elsewhere. We won’t belabour the point, however, we want to point out that the Unchained Index:
- Allows blazingly fast access to any account anywhere on the chain
- Allows perfectly-private access to query blockchain data completely locally
- Naturally shards itself and distributes itself using IPFS and user behaviour
- Is published periodically to a smart contract and once published cannot be removed from public use
- Is reproducable directly from immutable data with a well-defined series of operations meaning its as immutable as the original blockchain data
- Compact
- Digs deeper into the blockchain than any other source allowing for instantaneous, 18-decimal-place accurate off-chain reconciliation of any account
- Blazingly fast
Links to articles about TrueBlocks
Here we present a number of articles we’ve written about TrueBlocks over the years. Read at least a few of these and you will better understand what we’re trying to do.
| Title and description |
|---|
| A Specification of the Unchained Index - in which we fully and in a detailed way explain the Unchained Index |
| A Long-Winded Explanation of TrueBlocks - in which we go on and on about how things work and why |
| How Accurate is EtherScan - in which we compare TrueBlocks with EtherScan’s apis |
| Comparison of TrueBlocks and The Graph - in which we compare TrueBlocks to The Graph |
| Custom Traversers - in which we describe how to enhance the extracted data |
| Simple Undeniable Facts - in which we argue strongly for full decentralization |
| A Time-Ordered Log of an Index of a Time-Ordered Log - in which we describe why old-fashioned web 2.0 indexes don’t cut it |
| Indexing Addresses on the Ethereum Blockchain - in which we describe the process of building the unchained index |
| Mother May I - in which we play a childish and churlish game with our users |
| Building an Account Scraper with TrueBlocks - in which we describe the technical details of building the index |
| How Many ERC20 Tokens Do I Have? - in which we describe why it’s hard to know and how TrueBlocks helps |
| Accounting for the Revolution - a very early paper in which we first try to describe TrueBlocks |