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Firehose (firehose-ethereum)
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Firehose (firehose-ethereum)

Indexing & data APIs

Indexing · DevOps

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Firehose, in its firehose-ethereum form, is the flat-file block extraction layer that feeds Substreams. Its documentation addresses operators running a full indexing stack, since Substreams users can reach the same data through hosted endpoints.

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