Between the ages of 17 and 20 I tried very hard to become a jazz bassist. I quite literally lived the movie Whiplash, including (almost) flipping over my car once, when late to rehearsal. I owe much of what is unique about me to this period of my life. It's also a part of my life I rarely ever talk about, and I haven't really touched a bass since that time. 14 years later I am still not sure I've fully processed those experiences.

In the summer, I forget that I like Tel Aviv. It's hot. It's crowded with tourists, our regular juilletistes and aoûtiens. The usual relaxed atmosphere of the city dissolves into what I interpret as brashness. Tel Aviv the cosmopolitan urban center becomes a beach town. Please accept my excuses, it's just not the kind of place I like spending time. Then September hits, and it starts to cool down. Just a few degrees are enough! It becomes possible to take a stroll again. You notice the new shops that recently opened, the cafe that changed hands, the city projects getting closer (we can only hope!) to completion. You see people again! Tel Avivians! Not just on their way to and from the beach. Between meetings, sitting with their dogs. Being active. Reading. I like Tel Aviv in the fall. And the winter, and the spring.

Some moments in the Startup Nation feel surreal. Today is erev Yom Kippur - the day before Yom Kippur. Officially, it is a 'half-work' day. Schools are closed, but most people need to work the first half of the day. Nevertheless, the WeWork receptionist just let me know: I'm the only member who arrived to this location today. Keep in mind, this WeWork occupies four stories in one of Tel Aviv's tallest buildings. Don't get me wrong - I'm enjoying the quiet! Gmar chatima tovah and wishing everyone who observes a tzom kal tomorrow.

SQD is one of the few projects of its size where you can ask a question in the TG chat and get an answer from BOTH founders. Join the conversation 👇

Just so it doesn't go unnoticed, SQD Network (@helloSQD) entered and surpassed its 10,000th epoch today. 1115 nodes are currently live, storing and serving 958 terabytes of blockchain data with efficiency and scale.

In case anybody was wondering how seriously the @Subsquid founders take scaling Web3 data access.

"Subsquid Network is the secret sauce that removes the need of an archive node while making your indexer rage at 50k blocks/sec" - @dizhel We've seen users report even faster speeds... and the data is FREE. And we're just getting started.

The @RmrkApp team made their indexer more decentralized by migrating to @Subsquid's latest release! We're also enjoying #OnChainSummer together by adding @BuildOnBase support.👨‍🦲 Their release notes here: medium.com/rmrkapp/singular-…

This is @Subsquid CEO Dmitry (@dizhel). Dmitry has a great sense of fashion. For this reason, he often wears a Squid Pepe T-shirt. You should wear a Squid Pepe T-Shirt too. Now, you can buy yours from the @TFAlphaDao shop! Browse the collection here: store.tfalpha.xyz/product-ca…

3) Launched the most dev-friendly GraphQL interface of any indexer (and our name doesn't even have 'Graph' in it! We have also released a CLI update for accessing the Postgres database directly from the terminal.

2) Launched support for >100 chains. - We now support 20+ EVM chains, including ETH, sidechains, and L2s. - We are the leader in Polkadot and the only option for indexing ink! smart contracts. Seeing major adoption everywhere, from #Kusama, to @FantomFDN, to @BNBCHAIN.

1) Launched Web3's fastest indexer. We regularly see users pulling data from entire chains at 50k-150k blocks per second. That's 300-1000x faster than the Graph.

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