Governance Tracker
Active GIPs affecting protocol economics — what they mean for your APR, your indexer, and your delegation.
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Rewards Eligibility Oracle
by Graph Foundation
Gates indexing rewards on actual service quality — HTTP status, response speed, and data freshness — evaluated over 28-day windows with 14-day renewal cycles. Oracle contract is live on Arbitrum and scoring indexers, but enforcement (reward gating) is pending GIP-0086.
Eligible indexers
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Oracle-sourced
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Expiring <3 days
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Must maintain quality service to retain reward eligibility. Failure to meet thresholds (200 OK, <5s response, <50K blocks behind) will result in lost rewards once enforcement is active.
Once enforced, delegation to ineligible indexers will earn zero rewards. Monitor your indexer's REO status now — Lodestar shows oracle-sourced eligibility data and renewal countdowns on every indexer page.
Rewards Manager & Subgraph Service Upgrade
by Edge & Node
Upgrades the RewardsManager to integrate with the REO oracle and adds POIPresented events with claim/deny/defer outcomes. Prerequisite for on-chain indexing agreements.
RewardsManager now checks REO eligibility at reward claim time. New POIPresented events create richer on-chain data about indexer performance.
Better reward distribution accuracy. POI presentation data will feed into indexer scoring and compliance tracking.
Protocol Economics Evolution
by Graph Foundation
Broader economic restructuring including issuance model updates, fee market evolution, and protocol sustainability mechanisms as The Graph transitions to a multi-service protocol.
Long-term economic framework changes affecting reward structures, fee markets, and the balance between issuance-funded and fee-funded revenue.
Economic model changes affect long-term APR sustainability. The shift toward fee-based revenue means delegator returns increasingly depend on actual query volume, not just issuance.
On-Chain Indexing Agreements
by Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
Creates a new marketplace layer for indexing agreements — offers, acceptances, POI presentations, escrow balances, and payment flows. The RecurringAgreementManager receives minted GRT and manages agreement lifecycles.
New revenue stream from on-chain agreements alongside existing allocation rewards. Must actively manage agreements, present POIs, and maintain escrow health.
Indexers with active agreements generate additional revenue that flows through to delegators. Agreement participation becomes a key factor in indexer selection.
Issuance Allocator Deployment
by Edge & Node
Deploys the IssuanceAllocator to split GRT issuance between the RewardsManager and the RecurringAgreementManager. Initial split: ~5% (~6 GRT/block) to agreements, expected to grow to ~10%.
Allocation-based rewards decrease by ~5% initially as issuance redirects to agreement funding. Indexers participating in agreements can recapture and exceed this via agreement revenue.
Base APR from allocations decreases slightly (~5%). But total ecosystem rewards increase if indexers actively participate in agreements. Net effect depends on your indexer's agreement activity.
Impact summaries are Lodestar's interpretation of active GIPs. Governance proposals can change during review. Live metrics sourced from on-chain data. For authoritative GIP text, see the linked forum discussions.