Introducing Ponder

Rapidly build an API for any EVM smart contract

Ponder is an open-source backend framework for building robust, performant, and maintainable crypto apps

Powerful local dev server

Build incredibly fast & stay unblocked with hot reloading

Fast & lean

Ponder indexes ~10x faster than Graph Protocol subgraphs

Type safe

End-to-end type safety & autocomplete with no codegen

One-click deploys

Deploy anywhere that runs Node.js with zero downtime & horizontal scaling

Benchmarks

37s

6m 40s

Sync (No Cache)
Sync (Cache)
Database Size
RPC Credits
Ponder
37s
5s
31 MB
108k
The Graph
5m 28s
1m 15s
1.1 GB
167k

Benchmarks index the Rocket Pool ERC20 token contract on mainnet from block 18,600,000 to 18,718,056 (latest) on an M1 MacBook Pro (8 core, 16GB RAM) against an Alchemy node on the Growth plan using a 950MB/s network connection.

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