Ryan Smith, Founder of IndexSupply

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My guest today is Ryan Smith, founder of Index Supply.

Index Supply is a company dedicated to open source indexing the EVM. Index Supply builds on Ryan's years of experience building backends and indexing services at Heroku, Chain, and Mint.fun, and through consulting with Zora, Reservoir, and more.

On this episode we discuss Shovel, Index Supply's open source indexer that transcribes every event emitted in an EVM node to an OLTP postgres database. We discuss the ins-and-outs of indexing, Index Supply's companion Block API, and the company's unconventional approach to funding open source software development for long term sustainability.

It was a pleasure catching up with Ryan who is generous with his knowledge and opinionated in his indexing. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

Links

• Hosted by @nnnnicholas
• Index Supply
• Ryan Smith
• Henry de Valence
• Oleg Andreev
• Cockroach DB Pebble
• QuickNode
• Simple made easy
• Shovel
• Clickhouse
• Thoughts on funding