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
Sync ~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
Benchmark
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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