Governance Tracker
Active GIPs — what they mean for your APR, your indexer, and your delegation.
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Evolving The Graph Protocol Economics
by Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
Umbrella vision document for the post-Horizon protocol economics — reframes issuance as a transition mechanism toward Network Payments tied to service quality, and repositions curation as an indirect sponsor mechanism. Published Dec 2024, elevated to Candidate in Feb 2025. Awaiting a Snapshot governance vote.
Long-term economic framework that shifts reward structures away from flat issuance toward service-quality-based Network Payments. The downstream GIPs (0076–0088) are the concrete implementations of this vision.
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.
Issuance Allocator Contract
by Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
Introduces a governance-controlled smart contract that splits protocol GRT issuance across multiple configurable distribution targets. Total issuance is unchanged — this is the infrastructure layer that enables GIP-0087 and GIP-0088 to redirect a portion of minted GRT away from the existing RewardsManager. Published March 2026, currently in Draft.
No immediate changes to reward amounts. Enables future issuance redirects to new targets like the RecurringAgreementManager. Indexers participating in on-chain agreements (GIP-0087) stand to benefit from those redirected flows.
No immediate APR impact. Provides the plumbing that GIP-0088 activates — once deployed, a portion of issuance flows to agreement funding rather than purely allocation rewards.
Indexer Rewards Eligibility Oracle
by Rembrandt Kuipers, Samuel Metcalfe
Gates indexing rewards on actual service quality — HTTP status, response speed, and data freshness — evaluated over 28-day windows with 14-day renewal cycles. The oracle contract is live on Arbitrum and actively scoring indexers; the GIP formalises its integration with the RewardsManager via GIP-0086. Revised March 2026 to make GIP-0086 an explicit dependency.
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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 GIP-0086 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 Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
Incremental upgrade to the RewardsManager and SubgraphService contracts that plugs in the REO oracle, refines reward collection logic (claimed/denied/deferred outcomes via POIPresented events), and adds reclaiming config for inactive allocations. Prerequisite for GIP-0079 enforcement and GIP-0088 deployment. Published March 2026.
RewardsManager will check REO eligibility at reward claim time once deployed. New POIPresented events create richer on-chain data about indexer performance, feeding into scoring and compliance tracking.
Improves reward distribution accuracy. POI presentation data will feed into indexer scoring. No immediate APR impact, but it gates the enforcement of REO eligibility (GIP-0079).
On-Chain Indexing Agreements
by Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
Replaces the off-chain indexing payment MVP (GIP-0081) with a fully on-chain contract system. Payers and indexers offer, accept, and settle agreements on-chain, with escrow funded from protocol issuance via Horizon primitives. Introduces the RecurringAgreementManager which receives minted GRT. Published March 2026.
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 Rembrandt Kuipers (Edge & Node)
The deployment and configuration GIP that wires everything together: deploys the IssuanceAllocator, connects the upgraded RewardsManager to source its rate from the allocator, and allocates an initial 5% of issuance to the RecurringAgreementManager for protocol-funded indexing agreements. Depends on GIP-0076, 0086, and 0087. Published March 2026.
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.