# Benefits From a Layer 1 blockchain core development team's perspective, integrating Firehose into your chain brings you and your community the following benefits. * Immediate support for [Substreams](https://substreams.streamingfast.io/), and its high-speed parallel processing engine. * Immediate integration into the latest `graph-node` which can feed directly from Firehose. * Immediate support for dozens of sinks (think loading to PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CDC replication, Kafka, Flink, writing to buckets for ingestion by BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Clickhouse, etc.). * Activates a community of developers that already know how to index blockchain data, and are going to be happy to discover your blockchain’s data model and activity. From a Layer 1’s users’ perspective, you’ll get the following benefits. * The capability to quickly index and sift through your favorite blockchain’s history. * Stream its output with low latency. * Hook it to any data systems you have, trading bots, cross-chain bridges, databases. * All of it in an extremely reliable way. * Benefit from the anti-fragility brought by The Graph network. * Offer an army of indexers to service your network. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://firehose.streamingfast.io/integrate-new-chains/benefits.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.