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You can just backup blockchain events on IPFS using Ponder.sh 🌝 Blog post soon

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It's a great question! It's primarily due to a lot of discussions in the space about not keeping event data onchain anymore after a certain period of time. By doing this you can save a ton of space and keep things running faster. This is already being done on other chains or app chains by using a data layer and storing the data on centralized servers. By backing it up on IPFS you can have a more publicly accessible layer and persist it as you wish. Definitely not worth querying directly on IPFS, but with something like Ponder, you could feed the events from IPFS and rebuild a database to query from. Beauty of using Ponder is that it makes it easy to back this up while you use it for your primary indexing database/API. Also since IPFS prevents duplicate files you can re-index as much as you want but you'll only store unique events!

I should probably wait for the blog post but serious question: why should someone do this? 
Isn’t it better, more flexible to query to use traditional databases? 
Since the decentralization offered by IPFS is already achieved by the blockchain itself.

Off the top of my head I can think of one reason though, if you do so some additional data manipulation/addition. i.e more data that shouldn’t be onchain. E.g imagine you create a video/image programmatically using the event data. Then you can pin on IPFS

Imma need to take another look at it 👀