Substreams
StreamingFast Substreams documentation
Substreams enables developers to write Rust modules, composing data streams alongside the community, and provides extremely high-performance indexing by virtue of parallelization, in a streaming-first fashion.Substreams have all the benefits of StreamingFast Firehose, like low-cost caching and archiving of blockchain data, high throughput processing, and cursor-based reorgs handling.
Learn about Substreams in a short, dense 25-minute intro and understand its impact on the blockchain ecosystem.
A walkthrough of Firehose features, Substreams modules, including a sample Rust module and StreamingFast's vision.
The primary ways to use Substreams include:
After installing Substreams and reviewing the Quickstart:
Find pre-built Substreams by using the following resources:
You can view Substreams from two perspectives as illustrated in the high-level visual diagram. It can be viewed through the perspective of the Substreams engine itself and also the perspective of the end-user developer and consumer.
Substreams is an open source community effort, so feel free to suggest new topics, report issues, and provide feedback. Contribute through GitHub pull requests.
The content in the Substreams documentation was created through StreamingFast's full effort. It is up to the reader to validate the accuracy of all content presented. Substreams is in active development and, at times, the associated documentation becomes outdated. Contact StreamingFast to report problems or service interruptions.
Note: The Substreams documentation uses the Google developer documentation style guide for its style and formatting.
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