Subsquid Has Partnered With Joystream

Joystream is now using the newest version of the Subsquid Protocol and continues to build the blockchain-native, improved version of video sharing services like YouTube. An operation of this scale requires a powerful backend to match its ambitions.

The idea for the next-gen query node framework was conceived at Joystream, the decentralised video platform on the Polkadot network. It was officially kicked-off and developed at the Hackusama hackathon in August 2020 under the name Hydra, where it won the infrastructure track. Dmitry Zhelezhov, the technical co-Founder of Subsquid, was then working in the Joystream core-team and was responsible for developing the Hydra framework in-house, with Hydra quickly becoming crucial to Joystream’s Atlas product.

Hydra Brings Instant Improvement and Scalability

Joystream decided for Hydra, knowing that it could scale with its own ambitions and growth. With rapid iterations and ever-growing complexity, Joystream’s Atlas product has become one of the most sophisticated DApps in the whole Substrate space, with Hydra helping to power it by returning up-to-date data from the Joystream blockchain.

The end result of implementing Hydra has been a more responsive website with a richer user experience, while developers also benefited with reduced development cycles. This means that instead of having to redesign the backend from scratch each time a new feature is introduced to Atlas, developers simply update the Hydra-based schema and incrementally add on the functionality.

About Joystream

Joystream is a decentralized video platform that has already been launched and operates on its own blockchain (the Substrate framework is used), this project can be called the polkadot parachain. (COO). The project has already launched a working product where you can already watch videos.

About Subsquid

Subsquid is an innovative node query framework and node-as-a-service provider for Substrate-based blockchains. The platform can process thousands of on-chain events and transactions in a single batch, even if they are spread out across many blocks.

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https://subsquid.medium.com/the-subsquid-origin-story-joystream-partnership-4b2d690e8562