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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
ETH Down Bad
Nov 23, 2022 - The price of Ethereum has sank in recent days - how does it compare to other tokens amid a general market downturn? Can you find evidence of any potential causes for ETH's struggle? Are there any other indicators that could help us predict whether/when it could recover?
Solana Staking Madness
Nov 11, 2022 - How has staking pool behavior on Solana responded to recent events? Analyze Flipside's new staking pools data to analyze staking behavior in the Solana ecosystem over the past week. How are stakers responding to recent events? Have there been any notable inflows or outflows to staking pools? What staking pools have seen the most notable behavior? Can you link any staking behavior to other defi activity or other accounts on Solana? Note any trends or outliers you see.
Everyone Needs a 1-of-1
Jan 21, 2023 - Exchange Art is the leading digital art marketplace on Solana for 1-of-1 art and fine digital art. This category has been rising on Solana as more artists have realized the ease and low costs of launching digital art on Solana. Create a dashboard diving into the key growth metrics of Exchange Art over time. How has the marketplace grown over time and how does that compare to the general NFT growth on Solana? Does it appear that 1-of-1 art is popular among many users on Solana, or is it primarily collected by select individuals? Are most users on Exchange Art whales or art lovers or both? Are there any unique purchasing behavior patterns that you see out of wallets that buy art on Exchange Art? What does the average price look like on Exchange Art and is there more of an appetite for high end pieces? How does the holding period of NFTs bought on Exchange Art compare to that of Magic Eden? Are users truly collecting or are they still interested in short term flipping? What wallets have been most profitable on Exchange Art and what has their strategy been so far?
Solana's Flash Trade Protocol
Feb 13, 2024 - Welcome to the Flash Trade Protocol Analysis Dashboard, your gateway to a comprehensive exploration of Flash Trade's recent endeavors on the Solana blockchain.
Who's Escaping FTX?
Nov 16, 2022 - Who's managing to escape from the FTX debacle mostly unscathed? Create a single chart showing trading volume on dydx, gmx, and gns to show how people are exiting ftx and entering margin trading dapps. Are they off-boarding through any other methods? Are any particular exchanges, chains, or dapps seeing large increases in new users or trading volume? Note any trends or outliers you see.
Cats vs Sharks vs Squirrels!
Dec 12, 2022 - an in-depth comparison of Degen Fat Cats, Sharx & The Sinister Squirrel Syndicate NFT projects on Solana on the occasion of their recent hype during nowadays !
Algorand Price Correlation
Jun 26, 2022 - Q109. Is the price of Algorand more closely correlated with the crypto market, and assets such as BTC or ETH, or is it more correlated with network usage such as number of transactions or ALGO transfers? How does this compare to other networks such as Solana? Note your findings and anything else that may be interesting in relation to Algorand's price movement!
Flow vs Other L1s
Jun 18, 2022 - Q13. How does Flow compare to other L1s in terms of user retention? Is a user who made a transaction previously likely to make another transaction a week or a month later? Compare and contrast this type of activity vs other L1s like Solana and Ethereum
Untitled BoardABOA
Sep 23, 2022 - What apps and projects have fueled adoption on Solana? Which programs have been particularly good at attracting new users? Which programs have been particularly good at retaining their users. Which NFT collections have been particularly good at attracting new users? How do these NFT collections differ from other NFT collections (if at all)? Which tokens have been particularly good at attracting new users? What makes tokens appealing to new users on Solana? Create a dashboard that shows the programs, NFTs, and tokens that's fueling adoption and retention on Solana.
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.
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Sep 5, 2022 - Q108. Create a dashboard that shows the crossover between the top Solana NFT projects by market cap (you can reference https://howrare.is/ for a list of the top collections). Which of the strongest projects tend to have the most crossover, and which projects have a wider mix of other communities? Which communities tend to provide the most signal that another NFT project will do well? As in, is there any alpha if you were to see a certain PFP buying another collection? Which communities tend to be most active in minting new collections? Which communities have are the most diamond handed on other projects?"
Solanart vs X2Y2
Sep 25, 2022 - Compare Solanart in Solana vs X2Y2 in Ethereum marketplaces (the 2 marketplaces with custom royalty fees) in some metrics of your choice during the past 2 months. note any important findings.
Solend Demographics (Solana Bounty)
Jul 30, 2022 - Q101.Solend is the leading lending protocol on Solana. What are the demographics of the Solend userbase? What is the user distribution by size of account? (How many have between $1-1,000, 1,000 - 100k, etc). Is the protocol largely influenced by whales, or by average Solana users?
Solend TVL Tracking
Aug 19, 2022 - On August 17th, Solend announced their permissionless pools, where anyone can now create a pool. https://twitter.com/solendprotocol/status/1560003756736925696 How has this influenced user behavior on Solend so far compared to prior user activity? How many users have used a permissionless pool? What is the % of TVL contributed from isolated and permissionless pools, against the main pool over time? What is the amount/% of TVL that comes from PDAs/integrations or DAOs/Realm addresses, instead of normal signers? Overall how healthy does Solend appear as a protocol nd is it gaining traction in the Solana ecosystem?
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Sep 4, 2022 - Q107. $Dust is the utility token behind the most popular NFT project on Solana - Degods. The team and the community have been building with $DUST. How is $DUST being used in the Solana ecosystem? What are its most popular use cases and where are buyers of $DUST coming from? Highlight at least 3 metrics showing $DUST trends in Solana.
Tracking Solend cTokens
Jul 30, 2022 - Q102, cTokens on Solend are a yield-bearing deposit receipt. This means you can convert USDC into cUSDC to get a tradeable token that also earns interest on Solend. You can hold this token in your wallet to continue earning interest, or you can send it to someone else, and they'll earn interest. What do users do with their cTokens? In which DeFi platforms are cTokens deposited in after minting on Solend? What are the most popular use cases for cTokens and where have they grown in usage over time? Does cToken behavior seem to be influenced by the size of the receipt?
Hot Ball of Money (Solana NFTs)
Jun 12, 2022 - Compare Solana NFT sales activity on "new" collections to the activity on more established collections within the ecosystem. Has the trend been to buy into the hype or invest in builders for the long term? What do whales seem to be doing? Has it been more profitable to mint/buy these new hyped collections and flip them, or to invest long term into NFT collections?
Average Solana Portfolio
Jun 25, 2022 - Q91. What does the average Solana user's portfolio look like and how has that changed over time? What % of a user's activity (in SOL terms) is staked, unstaked, in liquidity pools/farms, in NFTs? How has this trend changed since the start of 2022?
What Are Users Swapping gALGO3 For?
Apr 28, 2022 - gALGO3 is an asset that is pegged to ALGO. Users can lock their ALGO up on Folks.finance for governance and while their ALGO is locked they receive gALGO3 and you can use it for other defi activities. Read more about it here: https://docs.folks.finance/protocol-architecture/algo-liquid-governance Let’s look what users are swapping their gALGO3 for while their ALGO is locked in governance. Show the number of trades to gALGO3 and from gALGO3 by day? Also chart the volume of trades to gALGO3 and from gALGO3 by day? Are there any notable days? If so, what may have caused this? What DEXes are users swapping gALGO3 on? Show the breakout of number of gALGO3 swaps(to or from) by day for each dex. What are the top 10 most popular to swap from to get gALGO3? What are the top 10 most popular to swap to from gALGO3?
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Oct 13, 2022 - What has been happening in the Solana defi ecosystem since the Mango Markets Hack? Has activity increased? Decreased? Are users flocking to any particular defi apps? Are they leaving the ecosystem? Chart flows in and out of centralized exchanges from the Solana ecosystem. Has staking behavior changed on Solana since the hack? Note any trends or outliers you see in Solana defi.
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Sep 13, 2022 - Time to do some NFT analysis. Compare and contrast the NFT market and ecosystem across at least three different chains (you can do more if you wish, but there must be at least three included.) Explain how the various chains differ in terms of metrics such as: Total Sales Total Unique Buyers Total Volume Average Sales/Day Average Buyers/Day Average Sales Price/Day
The Great Solana Royalty Debate
Nov 2, 2022 - The most controversial topic on Solana over the past month has been NFT royalties. After platforms like Yawww and Solanart moved to 0% creator royalties, and eventually Magic Eden followed, the market has been in a chaotic state. Magic Eden had cited that almost all funds for a project are coming from the mint, not royalties: https://twitter.com/MagicEden/status/1580367439824826368 Is this accurate, or a misrepresentation of how successful NFT projects have been operating? What projects have been more reliant on NFT royalties than others? What collections were wallets pivoting towards using 0% royalties more frequently? Higher royalty percentages? Higher floor volumes? Are flowing royalties a sign of project health and sustainability? How much volume from 0% royalty sales can be accounted for by wash trading rather than actual user interest? Was this actual user demand, or were decisions made based on inflated data?
Are NFT Creators Minting Money? (Solana Bounty)
Jun 22, 2022 - Q87. What is the average and median return on investment for candy machine NFT creators? As in how much revenue are NFT creators making off mint and then off royalties? How has that trended over time and how do you see this shaping the NFT landscape on Solana?
Crossover with NBA Top Shot (Flow Bounty)
Jun 11, 2022 - Which Flow NFT projects appear to have the most crossover of buyers with NBA Top Shot addresses? Is NBA Top Shot an effective onboarding tool in getting users interested into other Flow collections? Does this crossover tend to come from Top Shot "whales", or does the crossover come from average to smaller players? How can Flow projects better attract liquidity from Top Shot players?
New Year, New Solana Outage...
Apr 21, 2023 - An analysis on the recent Solana blockchain outage that occurred in February 2023. This event has caused significant disruptions to the Solana network and has impacted many users and projects relying on the platform.
Flow vs Other L1s Pt (II)
Jul 15, 2022 - How does Flow compare to other L1s in terms of user retention? Is a user who made a transaction previously likely to make another transaction a week or a month later? Compare and contrast this type of activity vs other L1s like Solana and Ethereum.
Solana NFT Project Feature
Jul 17, 2022 - Choose a NFT project from the following list and create a dashboard with the new Flipside dashboard layout that can refresh once a day highlighting at least 4 metrics of your choosing that helps show the "health" of the project. Note any noticeable trends or current events for the project. Highlight how liquidity is flowing in and out of the project and what types of buyers and sellers are interacting with the project.