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Nick Hansen is Team Lead at The Graph Foundation, the organisation that stewards The Graph, a protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data.
He moved into the Team Lead role in March 2025, after serving as Head of Growth, also styled Ecosystem Lead, at the Foundation. His involvement with The Graph began in 2020.
Before joining the Foundation he created and hosted the GRTiQ podcast, which featured more than 200 interviews with people across The Graph ecosystem. That work led to the Foundation offering him a full-time role. A podcast profile describes his earlier background as spanning traditional finance, marketing, radio broadcasting and education.
In July 2025 he was quoted in The Graph's announcement of Substreams support for TRON. At Consensus Miami 2026 he spoke with Crypto Coin Show about the protocol's 1.27 trillion queries processed and its shift to a multi-service data layer after the December 2025 Horizon upgrade. His current focus is the Foundation's data services, including Subgraphs, Substreams and Token API, and their use by enterprises and AI agents.
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Latest interview · May 19, 2026The Graph Foundation's Nick Hansen on processing 1.27 trillion queriesWatch the episode →
Key points
- The Graph has processed 1.27 trillion queries and expanded beyond subgraph indexing to offer six data services including Substreams, Token API, Tycho, Amp, and JSON-RPC.
- The December 2025 Horizon upgrade transformed The Graph into a modular data backbone targeting the $47 billion agentic AI economy with per-query payments.
- Institutions require SOC 2 compliance, KYC, and regulatory mandates for data quality and auditability, creating friction with decentralized protocols.
- Cross-chain composability remains a critical unsolved problem for Web3 vision, more pressing than data verifiability at current industry stage.
- The Graph's roadmap positions it as a marketplace where data service providers can plug into a decentralized network with proven, industry-pioneering technology.
In their own words
“The Graph is not going to abandon decentralization. It's a core thesis from DNA birth to present.”
“It always comes down to a handful of five or six chains”
