DAO Data Grant Update #3
Monthly update for the Decentraland DAO-owned data aggregation grant.
DAO Data Grant
Update #3
November 3rd, 2022
37,-5 (Atlas Norte)
By howieDoin – Business Development and Infrastructure at Atlas Corp
How we doin’ DCL community? This is the third update on the progress of the DAO Data Aggregation service and today I’m proud to announce we’re ready to release our beta client!
The code repository can be found here: https://gitlab.com/atlas-corporation/dcl-dao-data
Documentation for the APIs can be found here: https://dao-data.atlascorp.io/redoc
We’ve made the code for DAO_DATA_CONNECT and DAO_DATA_ARCHIVE open source which are available at the above gitlab url. If you want to run the applications for yourself simply follow the steps in the README. Note that while everyone can now run the same version of the code that we do, we ask that you exercise discretion. A large part of the reason we set out to do this is to collect and store data centrally for the community to reduce burden on the game-supporting catalyst nodes; if everyone were to run this code, the problem will become exacerbated. In the spirit of decentralization, the code is open source such that in the event that we at Atlas CORP are no longer able to provide this service to the DAO (e.g. Thanos snaps us out of existence) then data collection can resume by anyone running the code.
We’re considering this to be our Beta release so we do encourage those interested to go and please try the APIs, especially if you’re looking to build apps/dapps that would require Decentraland Data. (b the quickest way to get started is to use the /postman endpoint to download a set of sample queries). The service is running on a production-quality instance of MongoDB and a suite of Digital Ocean droplets are deployed to populate the production data, serve up APIs to the community, cache derived data, and archive old data. We’ll be monitoring usage logs closely to understand if we can relax constraints on size of queries, rate limits, data persistence, or anything other changes we need to make based on our observations.
Over the next month or so, we will be augmenting our deliverables to include access to the Archives (if you are interested in obtaining a copy today please reach out as we do have data going back to 7/13/22), as well as finalizing the deployments for _QUERY and _DERIVE based on user feedback.
Please reach out if you have any questions, you notice something isn’t functioning properly, or want to provide any other feedback. We’re excited to see how the community starts to put this service to work!
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