Mar 17Thoughts on 10 Random Optimism Retro PGF ProjectsI am a badge holder for the amazing Optimism Retro Public Goods Funding Round 2. I am also a project participant with TrueBlocks. If you’re a badge holder, please consider our project for inclusion in your voting. Too Much to Learn About In this screed, we report our findings given a small experiment we conducted…Optimism9 min readOptimism9 min read
Jan 6Recipe: Monthly Token BalancesOr, Just How Bad was my year? We’re going to try to get a report showing the end-of-month balances for every token I’ve ever owned for my trueblocks.eth address. This is not an easy process as you’ll see, but I’m doing it permissionlessly — for free — on my laptop…Blockchain6 min readBlockchain6 min read
Jan 6Recipe: FactoriesGetting a list of all contracts created by an address In this simple and short article, we show you how to use TrueBlocks, the Unchained Index, and chifra to get a list of every smart contract created by an address (including smart contracts that create other smart contracts, that is…Trueblocks4 min readTrueblocks4 min read
Jan 3Why we’re building TrueBlocksIt’s time to make amends This week, we’re going to finalize the second draft of our Specification for the Unchained Index. We’ve written the conclusion and thought we’d share it, as it is the best explanation yet of why we’re building what we’re building. …Ethereum4 min readEthereum4 min read
Dec 30, 2022TrueBlocks Progress Report — 4th Quarter 2022Introduction — For some people, the end of the year is a time of happy celebration. A time spent with family and friends, sharing gifts, drinking, and having fun. That’s mostly true for me, but the end of the year also signifies something else for me. It signifies a time when my…Trueblocks8 min readTrueblocks8 min read
Nov 21, 2022TrueBlocks welcomes an Ethereum Foundation GrantTrueBlocks is pleased to announce that we have been awarded an Ethereum Foundation grant. We thank the Foundation for its support, and a special shout out to everyone who’s helped us get this grant over the finish line. In this blog post, we do three things: (1) we describe the…Trueblocks7 min readTrueblocks7 min read
Nov 21, 2022Better Accounting for BlockchainsTowards 18-decimal-place accurate ETH and ERC20 token accounting TrueBlocks is pleased to announce the release of our newest version: v0.43.0. This is our best version yet and includes much better ERC20 token accounting. In this article, we present a few thoughts on what’s changed and where we’re headed from here. A quick thought on the word “Accounting” …Ethereum9 min readEthereum9 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Sep 20, 2022TrueBlocks / Covalent ComparisonIntroduction This article highlights key advantages of using TrueBlocks, a local-first solution to blockchain data extraction, by comparing our software to the popular Covalent API. The advantages are: We conducted our analysis by running TrueBlocks locally on a “beefy” Mac laptop (Apple M1 Max, 64GB memory, Monterey version 12.2.1). …Ethereum8 min readEthereum8 min read
Jun 23, 2022Technical Specification for the Unchained IndexIntroduction — Immutable data — such as that produced by blockchains — and content-addressable storage — such as IPFS — have gotten married, and they’ve had a baby called the “Unchained Index.” Immutable data and content-addressable storage are deeply connected. After all, without a suitable storage medium for immutable data, how can…Unchained Index2 min readUnchained Index2 min read
Feb 2, 2022forEveryChainCome Visit with Us for a While Have you ever had the desire to look at every trace of every transaction of every block on every blockchain? Yes? Well, pull up a chair. It’s a Multi-Chain World I’m sure you’re all aware of the impending multi-chain universe. You know the one. Where all sorts…Ethereum4 min readEthereum4 min read
