NEAR Developers Activity
Jan 23, 2023 - With Electric Capital’s release of its annual report on developer activity, the topic of “developers” is a hot topic across crypto. Produce a rich analysis of NEAR developer activity, using metrics and definitions of your choice to answer the questions: How many developers are active on NEAR? How active are they? How this has changed over time? Feel free to reference (and cite) the Electric Capital report to provide background, but the vast majority of your dashboard should be original work that provides a supplemental view to that report.
Secrets of the NETH-er World
Mar 1, 2023 - The day that many citizens of the City of Near had been waiting for finally arrived late last year. As of December 19, 2022, NEAR is compatible with MetaMask, marking the first time a non-EVM chain has offered compatibility with the popular ETH wallet. This was made possible by a smart contract called NETH. Now that the contact and ensuing compatibility has been live for nearly three months, it's time to dive deeper into the data.
Digging Deep into User Retention: NEAR, Arbitrum, Optimism
Oct 22, 2023 - This analysis delves into the user retention strategies of three prominent blockchain platforms: NEAR, Arbitrum, and Optimism. We explore how NEAR's "killer apps" - Kaikai and Sweat - have attracted a substantial user base, while major Ethereum Layer 2s, Arbitrum and Optimism, utilized airdrops and liquidity mining programs. The central question we address is: do users tend to depart once incentives disappear, and do they continue engaging with blockchains during non-incentive days?
Avalanche vs. NEAR: A Comparative Analysis
May 23, 2024 - Compare Avalanche vs. NEAR blockchain activity in any timeframe.
NEAR Validators & Staking Stats
Jun 29, 2023 - A comprehensive tool providing real-time insights on NEAR blockchain validators. Monitor the number of validators, seat prices, pool versions, staked NEAR tokens, total staking amounts, the impact of liquid staking solutions, and yield on NEAR staking all in one place.
Merry Christmas?
Jan 6, 2023 - The holidays and New Year are often chaotic in the crypto and defi space, as users make a spree of new transactions and wallets as they receive (and give) some cash and coins as holiday gifts. How has this activity impacted the broader Ethereum ecosystems? Are users creating new wallets or buying tokens with their newfound holiday wealth? Are they staking all these new tokens once they get them? Or are they selling tokens to pay for their own gifts and holiday travel?
Digging Deep into NEAR, Arbitrum & Optimism User Retention
Nov 1, 2023 - This analysis delves into the user retention strategies of three prominent blockchain platforms: NEAR, Arbitrum, and Optimism. We explore how NEAR's "killer apps" - Kaikai and Sweat - have attracted a substantial user base, while major Ethereum Layer 2s, Arbitrum and Optimism, utilized airdrops and liquidity mining programs. The central question we address is: do users tend to depart once incentives disappear, and do they continue engaging with blockchains during non-incentive days?
NEAR.Social Dashboard
Mar 1, 2023 - a comprehesive dashboard using the new Flipside's NEAR.social schema in order to document the activity happening on NEAR.Social.
Flow Decentralization Progress
Nov 13, 2023 - The path for Flow has always been progressive decentralization over time. In the last year, various upgrades have enabled network participants to stake Flow, run nodes & validators, and more to drive the chain toward decentralization. Visualize that progress; how many nodes or validators are run on the network, & how does that compare with other chains? How much FLOW is staked, and by how many users? What else can you add to visualize the progress?
Aurora Contract Users (NEAR)
Apr 19, 2023 - Let's dig into users that have interacted with the Aurora contract on NEAR.
FLOW User Retention vs Other Chains
Dec 16, 2022 - How sticky are the users on Flow? Create a detailed analysis comparing user retention on Flow vs. other L1 chains like Ethereum and Solana. How often do users who make a transaction come back and make another transaction one month later? How do monthly active users compare between chains? Bonus: add a section of your analysis comparing retention specifically with regard to NFT purchases. How often do users who purchase an NFT come back and make another purchase one month later?
City Amidst the Storm
Nov 15, 2022 - Provide a thoughtful analysis of how NEAR is weathering the market turbulence that occurred as a result of FTX’ insolvency.
NEAR Path to Decentralization
Jan 28, 2023 - NEAR has expressed its goals to decentralize in 2023. Simply put: are these efforts working? Create a stylish, refined dashboard that enables viewers to assess both individual validators on NEAR, and validation as a whole (bonus points if you find a way to enable parameters or dropdowns that display different validators). As ever, you are welcome to draw on past/existing work that explores governance on NEAR, as long as you provide credit to your original sources. Ensure your dashboard can answer the question: is NEAR becoming more decentralized, or less?
$PARAS Environmental Impact Study (NEAR Protocol)
Oct 5, 2022 - Do a deep dive into another project on NEAR and analyze its impact, defining metrics for “impact” and displaying them with data. What contributions is your chosen project making to NEAR?
The Law Offices of NEAR
Jul 30, 2022 - Q7. Provide your best assessment of the number of contracts deployed on NEAR and clearly outline your methodology (after all, contract lawyers love clearly specified terms). Visualize how the number of contracts has changed over a time period of your choosing. How many of those addresses are smart contracts?
Comparing The Top Projects on NEAR
Nov 17, 2022 - Let’s take a closer look at some of the biggest and best-known projects in the NEAR ecosystem. Choose one of the Top projects in the NEAR ecosystem (a list can be found below). Analyze the project and its health.
Near.Social User Segmentation
Mar 9, 2023 - A segmentation tool to help us understand the NEAR profiles of new users on Near.Social platform. The intention is to allow users to select a new group of Near users based on when they joined and then look at that group of users' wallet behavior.
New Year New Activity
Jan 6, 2023 - The holidays and New Year are often chaotic in the crypto and DEFI space, as users make a spree of new transactions and wallets as they receive (and give) some cash and coins as holiday gifts. How has this activity impacted the crypto and DEFI ecosystems? Are users creating new wallets or buying tokens with their newfound holiday wealth? Are they staking all those new tokens once they get them? Or are they selling tokens to pay for their own gifts and holiday travel?
SVB Bridge Analysis
Mar 16, 2023 - Last week was another eventful week in crypto, as we saw a run on SVB and subsequent bailout by the FDIC. When similar liquidity issues happened surrounding FTX, bridges experienced a surge of volume. Let's see if something similar occurred last week on Axelar's Satellite and Squid bridges. Moreover, Comparing the activity of these bridges with their competitors during the same time frame.
NEAR.Social Metrics
Nov 21, 2023 - an in-depth analysis of NEAR.Social users, growth metrics, activity on NEAR & significant trends or changes over past X months!
New NEAR Contract Usage
Mar 17, 2023 - A dynamic tool to analyze newly deployed contracts on NEAR protocol and examine which of the new contracts are gaining more users and expanding the NEAR ecosystem.
Spill the (USD)T: Exploring USDT Usage in NEAR and Its Burrow Protocol
Jun 6, 2023 - a comprehensive analysis of USDT usage on the NEAR chain, focusing specifically on its utilization within the Burrow lending protocol. Gain insights into USDT trends, patterns, and usage metrics within NEAR, with a specific emphasis on Burrow.
Orderly BTSE DEX (NEAR)
Mar 25, 2024 - Digging into the activity and users utilizing Orderly, one of NEAR’s most innovative and recently launched exchanges with an on-chain order book.
Lending Wars: Avalanche's Benqi vs NEAR's Burrow
Aug 17, 2024 - This dashboard provides a comparison of two major DeFi lending protocols, Benqi Finance on Avalanche and Burrow on NEAR Protocol.
NEAR City Layout
Oct 29, 2022 - How centralized or decentralized is NEAR, really? Choose at least two distinct measures of decentralization that can be explored with on-chain data; clearly define those metrics; and outline how NEAR performs based on those metrics. In your view, is NEAR becoming more centralized or decentralized over time? You are welcome to draw on any past submissions in your work, but ensure you credit and link to the original creator (bonus points if you shout them out on Twitter). Grand Prize submissions will also explore these metrics for at least one other blockchain.
Flipside's World Cup Kick Off: Gas Guzzlers
Nov 12, 2022 - Welcome to Flipside's World Cup of Bounties. To celebrate the arrival of the FIFA World Cup, we'll be holding a tournament to determine the top bounty hunters in the world across several blockchains, projects, and more. This year's theme is cross-chain comparisons. To qualify for this tournament, create a gas tracking dashboard that looks at gas usage by a chain over the last couple of months. Include Ethereum, Solana, Algorand, Flow, NEAR, Optimism and Osmosis, and add any other chain you think is worth noting. Breakout the following metrics by a chain in the dashboard Total amount USD of gas spent on the chain in the last 30 days. Average cost of gas in USD per $1,000,000 of liquidity transferred on each chain 30 days Average block gas price hourly and daily The top 10 addresses on each chain that spend the most on gas in the past month Daily amount spent on gas by chain tracked over the last 30 days Chart gas spend to network token price
NEAR Centralized Exchange (CEX) Flows
Apr 27, 2023 - An analysis of the inflows and outflows of assets from NEAR to CEX and vice-versa in addition to CEX users' behavior within NEAR chain.
The Whales of NEAR
Feb 8, 2023 - Where in the ocean of NEAR do the whales hang out? Examine the top 20 addresses by amount of NEAR held - excluding any custodial or exchange addresses that you can. Can you identify any “power players” or wallets of interest? What behaviors do these whales exhibit?
Near's Burrow Protocol
Feb 23, 2024 - an in-depth analysis of Burrow protocol activity within the NEAR chain.
DEXs Season
Dec 1, 2022 - With the collapse of FTX, do users want to remove their crypto from centralized exchanges and use decentralized options for trading?
Insight of the Week (PARAS Ecosystem)
Feb 17, 2023 - The NEAR Foundation is running an "Insight of the Week" series. Keeping your analysis short and focused on excellent-quality visualization - provide the most fascinating or illuminating fact or insight that you can about the NEAR ecosystem, or any of the projects building on NEAR, over the past 7 to 14 days.
NEAR Gas Guzzlers
Jul 23, 2022 - What contracts are users spending the most gas on to use? How has this changed over the past week? Past month? Hint: The gas units in the table are in raw (not decimal adjusted) format. To adjust accordingly, divide by 10^12.
Untitled Board
Sep 2, 2022 - Q9. What actions does a user take when they deposit money into the NEAR ecosystem? Show the most common actions taken by users on NEAR (new users using NEAR for the first time) over the past 3 months.
Untitled BoardSWEA
Sep 18, 2022 - The SWEAT token has launched, to great fanfare! Give us your best open analysis of SWEAT's launch and the role of SWEAT in the NEAR ecosystem. What impact has SWEAT had on NEAR? What percentage of activity does it make up? What else should NEARians know about SWEAT? As usual: cite the source for any outside work or explanations that you use. No need to provide an overview of SWEAT - you can assume a knowledgeable audience - so concentrate on doing interesting analyses, comparisons, deep dives, and assessments.
