# The Grid

> Ecosystem intelligence for Web3

The Grid creates standardized metadata for Web3 projects, products, and assets to improve discoverability across blockchain ecosystems.

The Grid provides standardized metadata for Web3 projects, products, and assets, sourced from official sites and validated through rigorous verification processes. Users and platforms can access consistent, high-quality data to improve discoverability and reduce fragmentation across blockchain ecosystems. The company maintains this directory through continuous updates and quality checks.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Data & Analytics
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2024-01-03
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid

## Products

- [The Grid Data API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): The Grid Data API provides standardized metadata for Web3 projects, products, and assets through a GraphQL interface, enabling developers to integrate accurate ecosystem data into their applications. (Off-Chain Data APIs and Services, Open Beta, Main Product)
- [The Grid Data Explorer](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): The Grid Data Explorer is a web-based interface for browsing and filtering verified Web3 project data. It provides advanced search across profiles, products, assets, and deployments with sorting by sector, status, and chain. (Data Terminal, Open Beta)
- [GridBot](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): GridBot is a Telegram bot that allows users to search for Web3 profiles and retrieve standardized metadata from The Grid database through simple search. (Data Terminal, Open Beta)
- [The Grid MCP](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): The Grid MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes The Grid's Web3 metadata to AI agents through a hosted endpoint at mcp.thegrid.id. It provides GraphQL query access, simplified entity search, and packaged query workflows, enabling LLM-powered applications to discover and retrieve profile, product, asset, and deployment data programmatically. (MCP, In Development)
- [The Grid Skills](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): The Grid Skills is a Claude Code plugin providing structured query workflows, enum references, and search patterns for The Grid's Web3 metadata. It guides AI agents through GraphQL queries against The Grid MCP, enabling programmatic discovery and retrieval of profiles, products, assets, and deployments through guided workflows. (Skills, In Development)
- [Network Portal](https://thegrid.id/profiles/The_Grid): The Network Portal is a profile management portal for Web3 organizations. Organizations verify brand ownership and submit profile data—including descriptions, social handles, branding, products, and smart contract deployments—through a structured onboarding process. Approved submissions publish to The Grid's dataset and synchronize across connected wallets, explorers, and ecosystem dashboards. (Social Platform, Live)

## Links

- [Documentation](https://docs.thegrid.id)
- [Main](https://thegrid.id)
- [Privacy policy](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms)
- [Blog](https://about.thegrid.id/resources)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/enter-the-grid)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/TheGridData)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/The-Grid-Data)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/thegriddata.bsky.social)

## Legal

This data is provided under two licensing models.

Model 1 - open data. The open data core is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) — a copyleft/share-alike license allowing free use, modification, and sharing for any purpose. Attribution is required: include "Powered by The Grid" linking to https://thegrid.id wherever the data is used. Derivative databases must be shared under ODbL terms. Trademarks, logos, and brand names (marked "Special TPIP") are not covered by the ODbL. For ML/AI use: training datasets that substantially extract ODbL data are Derivative Databases and must be shared under ODbL if publicly used; models must be attributed in documentation.

Model 2 - commercial licenses. The Grid Data Service (TGDS) is also available as a commercial license. See [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms) for commercial use that is not covered by the open data service.

The following applies to both licensing models.
- All data is provided AS IS with no guarantees of accuracy.
- The Grid does not provide investment, legal, or tax advice, and
- a project's presence in The Grid's data does not imply endorsement.


- [Data Licensing & Disclaimers](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/data-licensing-and-disclaimers): Licensing models and disclaimers
- [Open Data (ODbL)](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data): Open Database License terms and scope for The Grid's open data service.
- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
- [All Legal Documents](https://about.thegrid.id/legal): Full index of terms, policies, and disclosures

## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP