The pot aggregates and visualises how much commitments on active Kickback events.
The ability to track how much commitments have been on our smartcontract is critical for us to assess the overall risk as well as exploring the opportunity to receive interests via Compound. The historical data does not exist even in our backend database and keep syncing blockchain is a daunting task so kudos for The Graph team taking care of all the heavy lifting works.
One thing I did differently than originally planned was to track stats info as you index.
Initially, I was adding the ins/out of commitment into MoneyEntity but that forces frontend to traverse potentially thousands of data (initially I was tracking thousands of data since Devcon4). Keeping the aggregate data into MetaEntry and daily stats into StatsEntry made frontend query super simple.
I have used The Graph on and off by mostly querying already made subgraph or extending existing ones, so it was the first time to create a subgraph from scratch.
The documentation is a lot clearer than what it was 6 months ago when I had first looked into it during ETH Denver. Also, the support team at Discord was super helpful where Leo , Jannis and other team members constantly answering my questions.
The ability to scan any block and ethereum calls were useful features but it took a lot of time to index (2~5 hrs) which made my development super slow.
Then Leo suggested using datastore template which satisfied most of my requirements. I am especially impressed that I can just call smart contract at any events to supplement data which we haven't emitted. This eliminates the need to upgrade smart contract just for the sake of getting extra data, which is a game changer.
- Buy insurance as the pot size increases (could not do because I was unable to verify smart contract source code on Etherscan which is prerequisite to get a quote from Nexus mutual).
- Convert DAI into RDAI.
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