Build Log

Building ChainForge in public.

#0012026-03-02

Why I Started ChainForge

What I builtA public statement of the project: a blockchain data engineering platform, starting with Arc Mainnet, built in the open.
Why it mattersMost chain data products skip from RPC to a dashboard. The missing work is the part in between — decoding, canonical models, and the ability to explain a number.
ArchitectureA small pipeline with a documented raw layer, rather than a warehouse of unnamed JSON.
ImplementationThis log, a genesis indexer, and a rule that unfinished work is labeled Building or Coming Soon instead of hidden.
Problems encounteredThe urge to describe the future product instead of the current tables.
What I learnedRaw data is easy to collect. Meaning is harder. That sentence is the product.
What's nextIndexing Arc from genesis (#002).
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