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For onchain app devs what's your biggest pain point today?

By far - and anyone that tells you otherwise hasn't really built dapps - is the lack of RPC-native event indexing.

Relying on external APIs for this is terrible. Local indexing can be done properly but is inefficient on first load and hard to handle on some RPCs.

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RPC-native indexing meaning using the same RPC endpoints for indexed data? By definition indexed data is "external", it can easily be integrated into the RPC but would be different functions / queries.

that's interesting, we've been thinking about adding some rpc methods to add useful queries, the only worry is making an api that's specific to our rpc endpoints and don't work elsewhere.

In short, being able to query events instead of querying blocks, getting logs from each one, decoding events, etc. (eth_getLogs)

Yes, it'd still be "external" unless you're using your own node, but it's one less middleman charging fees, adding delay and additional dependencies.

And yes, it can added to the RPC standard except it hasn't! Unsure about "easily" though.