Grafen integrates Banxa to increase access to blockchain data
Banxa, the leading on-and-off ramp solution for web3, has integrated with The Graph, the leading decentralized infrastructure protocol, to allow users to pay with fiat currency to access blockchain data organized by The Graph. This integration, now available directly in The Graph’s user interface, lowers barriers to decentralized protocols and provides a way to access blockchain data as easily as with methods common in traditional SaaS products. The integration also marks the first use of Banxa’s new OpenRamp product, which enables fiat payments to interact directly with smart contracts, enabling a wide range of use cases and more fluid crypto experiences.
Leveraging Banxa’s new OpenRamp, The Graph offers direct access to blockchain data without the need for users to engage with centralized exchanges or platforms. Banxa’s integration fulfills all fiat transactions directly to The Graph’s billing contracts, allowing both dapp developers and data consumers to start using The Graph’s decentralized network for all their indexing needs without having to complete multiple transactions between fiat and crypto. As the internet continues to move towards an increasingly decentralized, multi-chain future with web3, it will be more important than ever for users to be able to transact seamlessly across protocols and networks using their preferred currencies and payment methods.
Edge & Node Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder, Tegan Kline, commented on today’s news: “Creating a seamless experience on The Graph’s decentralized network means making it as streamlined as possible for users and developers to pay for queries. Integrating Banxa as a fiat on-ramp opens The Graph to an even wider audience, making the decentralized network as easy to use as a traditional SaaS.”
The Graph’s integration with Banxa has created a completely new way to empower B2B2C projects in both Web2 and Web3 by providing the ability to pay in a way familiar to common software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms by use Banxa’s huge selection of payment methods. This capability paves the way for a user experience on par with traditional enterprise SaaS models, while maintaining all the benefits of decentralized technology, unlocking an ecosystem where all fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto interactions can occur.
“Banxa’s integration with The Graph represents a huge first step towards opening up the decentralized landscape to more users, and we look forward to seeing how developers and companies leverage access to this data through the built-in platform functionality,” said Holger Arians, CEO in Banxa. “We believe the future of crypto lies in interoperability – a prime example of this lies in enabling seamless movement of value in fiat and crypto across The Graph Network.”
This integration is one of many steps on The Graph ecosystem’s roadmap to improve the billing process for developers and data consumers, and represents Banxa’s efforts to accelerate blockchain adoption by serving as the premier entry point for the decentralized space.
About BANXA Holdings Inc.
Banxa’s mission is to accelerate the world to Web3 with its leading global on-ramp solution. Through its extensive network of local payment solutions together with the necessary crypto licenses, Banxa gives its partners and projects access to global audiences with less friction and higher conversions. Banxa has a global team of Web3 natives – headquartered in the US, Europe and APAC regions.
For more information go to www.banxa.com.
About The Graph
The graph is the indexing and querying layer of web3. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. Graphen currently supports indexing data from over 39 different networks including Ethereum, NEAR, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Celo, Fantom, Moonbeam, IPFS, Cosmos Hub and PoA with more networks coming soon. To date, over 74,000 subgraphs have been deployed on the hosted service. Tens of thousands of developers use The Graph for applications such as Uniswap, Synthetix, KnownOrigin, Art Blocks, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Audius, Decentraland and many others.
