Ethereum Validator & Indexer for The Graph Protocol. Independently owned & operated utilizing owned hardware.
My many years of experience in Ethereum, DevOps, cyber security, and software development are the perfect combination of skills to have as an indexer and validator.
About Me
I started my journey in 2012 as a sophomore in high school, learning software development and being introduced to Bitcoin. By 2015, I was developing websites, and that year I started interacting with a new blockchain called Ethereum. By 2016, I started to become active in the community by becoming a member of and voting with The DAO. In 2017, I registered this ENS domain name. For the next few years I focused on completing my Bachelor's in Computer Science from DePaul University, as well as starting my Master's in Cyber Security.
In early 2021, I started validating the empty Ethereum Beacon Chain, and later in 2021, I took some time to launch vincenttaglia.eth as an indexer for The Graph protocol, starting with the minimum indexer stake and an expensive EPYC server. Soon after I launched my personal indexer, I was approached to join the Data Nexus team as CTO, where our focus would be a much larger indexer deployment, as well as validating for various chains. Now, I operate two indexers and 75+ validators.
My Goals
My goals are simple. In regards to Ethereum staking, I want to give my family, friends, and anyone else that wants to join a non-custodial option for staking ETH that is cheap, easy, trust-and-risk-minimized and that also promotes decentralization, client diversity, and has a liquid staking option. To be clear, while I take every precaution when staking, and while Stakewise has gone through extensive audits for their v3 implementation, there are still risks with staking with me via this protocol, just as there are unique risks for every staking provider, custodial or not. You can take a closer look at the risks associated with staking ETH below.
As for the goals of my personal indexer, I want to eventually support all of the high query fee subgraphs from all relavent EVM chains, and by extension the indexing technologies required to index them. Currently I can only support a few select chains given the contstraints of my single server. I plan on maxing that server out with storage in the short term, and eventually getting more servers in order to support technologies like Firehose and Substreams, in addition to more chains. Since the start I've had a focus on query fess, as evidenced by my high mainnet query fee revenue ranking relative to the size of my indexer's stake. That will continue as we move towards the sunsetting of the hosted service.
More control,
less fees
A protocol for decentralized indexing and querying of blockchain data. Delegate to earn indexing rewards, support small operators, and support decentralization.
Easy, cheap, trust-and-risk-minimized option for staking ETH that promotes decentralization, client diversity, and has a liquid staking option.
