Recently, an airdrop on the EOS mainnet has caused transaction rates on the network to skyrocket, reaching as much as 30x of the previous baseline. Many of the infrastructure services that EOS dapps depend on have struggled to keep up with this increase, or have completely crashed and remained down. dfuse has also felt the impact of this onslaught of traffic, but we’ve remained up and running, and are processing transactions as fast as the network can throw them at us -- up to an incredible 500 token transfers per second in recent days.

In this post we’ll cover what happened, and the challenges the dfuse team faced with storage, query planning and indexing, and abuse management as EOS traffic surged.

Several members of the dfuse team travelled to the ETHWaterloo hackathon to get some quality face-to-face time with the amazing projects being built. We offered thousands of DAI (worth thousands of USD) in prizes for projects who incorporated dfuse into their development stack. Here’s a look at our top 3!

In a previous post we covered the inherent limitations of Ethereum nodes and some of the constraints these limitations place on developers, and described how the dfuse Platform can help. In this post, we’ll focus on the complex lifecycle of Ethereum transactions, and the challenges these create when trying to provide a great user experience in your dapp and how dfuse can help to achieve that.

Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX)™ today announced a partnership with dfuse, the blockchain API company, to offer developers a powerful API platform to drive first-rate user experiences for dApps that run on the WAX Blockchain.

At dfuse our mission is to empower the tens of millions of developers around the world to integrate blockchain into their applications -- easier, faster and cheaper. To help accelerate the adoption of Ethereum by developers, the dfuse team is a sponsor of the upcoming ETHWaterloo Hackathon taking place November 8 to 10, 2019 in the beautiful city of Waterloo.

In the blockchain space, things move very quickly and important news can sometimes be buried within the deluge of information. We wanted to ensure that you didn't miss out on any of the exciting things we at dfuse have been up to, so we put together this recap of the third quarter of 2019.

It is with great excitement that, today, the dfuse team unveils dfuse Search for Ethereum.

Taking the initial steps to building on a blockchain can be rather daunting if you don’t know the tips and tricks that will save you hours of development and research time. dfuse is talking to experienced blockchain developers in the community so as to pass this valuable information along. This week we spoke with Jimmy Gong from EOS Dynasty.

Getting started with developing for blockchain can seem like a difficult task. Thankfully, there are many resources out there to help guide you along your development journey. As the most popular data access provider for developers, dfuse wanted to ensure that we offered many examples to help you get started developing on EOSIO as quickly as possible.