CryptoIcicle
Solana-Foundation-1.The Bridge from Ethereum to Solana
Jun 16, 2022 - -- Q1. Create a visualization of the volume of assets being bridged from Ethereum to Solana over time via Wormhole. -- What does the average profile / size of wallets bridging to Solana from Ethereum look like (what is the average value of assets being bridged over)? -- What have been the most popular bridged assets from Ethereum to Solana and has that changed over time?
Sushi-88.Gas Efficiency
Jun 5, 2022 - -- Q88. Which one of the sushi services consumes the most gas per transaction? -- The services to include in your comparison are : -- -Adding liquidity -- -Removing liquidity -- -Adding an asset for lending -- -Borrowing -- -Removing an asset from lending -- -Repaying a loan -- -Swapping -- Hint: each of these activities have a special event that only appears for that activity. -- For instance repaying a loan generates the “LogRepay” event.
Bridge Volume (Optimism Bridge)
Jun 15, 2022 - -- Q2. Compare user bridge volume on the Optimism Native Token Bridge vs. another Mainnet <-> Optimism Bridge -- of your choosing (e.g. Hop). -- Can we conclude if there are differences in the types of users or transactions using the native bridge -- vs. the non-native bridge?
Arbitrum Bridges
Jun 28, 2022 - -- Select at least 2 bridges in use for step 1 of the Odyssey (for example, Hop, Across, Hashflow). -- Compare these two bridges by total transactions and total transaction amount.
Hop-1.Bridge Users (Hop Protocol)
Jun 18, 2022 - -- Q1. How many unique users have bridged to L2s using Hop? What days in the past 6 months have seen the most volume bridged, -- and were there any specific events that may have driven these spikes? -- Which assets have been bridged the most? Show an analysis of the asset distribution of bridging through Hop.
Flash Bounty: Miners
Sep 10, 2022 - -- Do certain miners prefer mining blocks with lower transaction count? -- Do certain miners only mine blocks with high transaction count? -- You can define what can be considered low or high transaction count based on the transaction count distribution
Inflows and Outflows
Sep 14, 2022 - -- What is the volume of ETH and a stablecoin of your choice that's moved between the Optimism network -- and the Ethereum network across the bridge? How has that changed over time?
Flash Bounty: Merge Staking Providers
Sep 6, 2022 - Choose 1 liquid staking provider (Ankr / Lido / rocketpool, etc) and answer the following question: How much ETH was staked? How many unique depositors are there? What is the avg/median/max/min/distribution of ETH deposits?
Bridger Destinations - Optimism
Sep 15, 2022 - Where do people go when they bridge to Optimism from Ethereum? What are the 10 most popular first destinations for users that have just bridged from Ethereum? What has this been for each day in the past month?
NFTs in 2022
Jan 5, 2023 - A retrospective on the NFT market in 2022. NFT project with the highest volume of trades in 2022? Which NFT project had the largest mint by dollar? Which NFT project decreased the most in value this year? Which NFT project gained the most value this year? What was the price of the highest-selling individual NFT? Which NFTs had the longest hold time this year? Which NFT project had the least amount of NFTs listed for sale on an exchange? Which project had the most NFTs listed for sale on an exchange?
Cryptopunk Sales and Traders
Aug 27, 2022 - -- Which 10 wallets are the most successful Cryptopunk traders? -- Successful could either mean the wallet has accumulated a large balance from sales or has accumulated a large number of Punks. Explain your methodology and findings.
Metamask-1.Total Metamask Users
Jun 25, 2022 - -- Q1. How many total Metamask wallet holders are there? -- What’s the average value of ETH held in wallets? -- What percentage of wallets are engaging in a higher order activity, like staking? -- Hint: For the purpose of this bounty, we can categorize Metamask wallets as wallets who have -- used the Metamask swap feature (interacted with this contract 0x881D40237659C251811CEC9c364ef91dC08D300C)
Metamask-3.Metamask vs. Other Platforms
Jun 25, 2022 - -- Metamask vs. Other Platforms -- Q3. How many users are swapping via MetaMask vs other platforms? -- How much volume have these users done? -- Chart a comparison between the two, and show the following metrics over a time period of your choosing: -- transaction volume, average amount swapped, and a comparison of fees.
Flash Bounty: Miners Moving?
Sep 17, 2022 - -- How have miners reacted to the fast-approaching merge? -- Have they stopped mining in recent weeks? -- Show evidence of miners either stopping work or continuing to mine.
NFTx-2.User Activity
Jun 11, 2022 - -- Q2. Analyze user activity providing and removing liquidity from NFTX vaults. -- Which three vaults have seen the most activity over the past 60 days? -- Are there any similarities between these vaults or NFT projects? Explain and visualize your findings.
Pool-1.Pooly NFTs
Jun 23, 2022 - -- Q2. How many Pooly NFTs have been minted thus far, and by how many unique wallets? How many Pooly NFTs does the average collector hold?
Toke-2.Token Reactor Rankings
Jun 23, 2022 - -- Q2. Rank the token reactors by their TVL, analyze the pattern of liquidity (withdrawals, deposits) -- on the top ones. Is there a reason why some reactors have more liquidity than others?
Stark-1.ETH Deposited or Withdrawn
Jun 29, 2022 - -- People are using it to move real ETH to starknet and enjoy its higher speed of transaction and lower fees. -- How many ETHs have been deposited or withdrawn (bridged) so far from Ethereum to StarkNet or vice versa? -- and by how many depositors?
Lil-Nouns-1.Voting Activity
Jun 17, 2022 - -- Q1. The Lil Nouns DAO is controlled via onchain voting by token holders. -- Using the ethereum database, analyze voting activity on Lil Nouns proposals. -- Since voting is on chain and costs gas, are smaller holders excluded from the voting process? -- Visualize and analyze this question, along with any other trends you find that are relevant.
Flash Bounty: SAFE Airdrop Farmers
Sep 14, 2022 - Use your analytical prowess to earn a potential big payout + get some serious spotlight! SafeDAO is currently reworking its SAFE token airdrop in order to include a broader section of their community. However, the DAO wants to ensure those tokens go to the community — not airdrop farmers.
Hop-3.Hop Whales
Jun 20, 2022 - -- Are whales choosing Hop to go to L2s? Or are they choosing the native bridges? -- Compare Hop vs the native bridges for Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum over the following metrics: -- unique users on each, frequency of use, and the average amount of assets moved on each?
Distinct Wallets (Optimism Bridge)
Jun 15, 2022 - -- Q1. Many blockchain bridges exist allowing users to move assets between different blockchains. -- One of the blockchains currently receiving a lot of bridge volume is Optimism. -- There are several bridges you can use to move tokens to Optimism, but for this bounty we are particularly interested in -- Optimism’s bridge. You can find more information on their native bridge here and here. -- How many distinct wallets have deposited or withdrawn ETH to Optimism via the native bridge in the -- last 60 days? Visualize your findings.
Tornado Cash Sanctions
Aug 10, 2022 - Tornado Cash is in the news due to the sanctions imposed by the US government and the freezing of $75K of USDC from Circle. The addresses tied to the service have been publicly posted online. (Hint: we also have them in our crosschain address labels table as well). What is Tornado Cash and why would it be targeted by the US government? Why might an address interact with the service? The addresses tied to the service have been publicly posted online. Using those addresses answer the following: How many addresses are still using the service despite the sanctions? Which addresses have been interacting the most with Tornado Cash? Break the addresses down by frequency and volume of tokens and describe how the groups are using the service differently. Is there anything else interesting about its users?
$MATIC Staking
Sep 21, 2022 - How many $MATIC have been staked since July 1, 2022? What is the staking ratio of $MATIC (amount of $MATIC staked vs circulating $MATIC) during the same time frame? Has it changed or are there any visible trends? What is the daily amount of $MATIC being staked and unstaked?
Sushi-94.SUSHI Noobs II
Jun 19, 2022 - -- Q94. What is the first thing new users do when they acquire SUSHI?
NEAR-5.Performance
Jul 16, 2022 - Q5. How does NEAR stock up to other L1s in terms of speed and performance? How fast is NEAR, and compare it with other blockchain speeds in terms of transactions per minute and percentage of transactions that fail.
Sushi-93.SUSHI Noobs
Jun 19, 2022 - Q93. From which address do users acquire their first $SUSHI token ? is it CEX ? DEX ? Dual LP Staking Rewards ? Airdrop ?
Optimism-9.Optimistic Bears
Aug 9, 2022 - Q9. Analyze Optimism during the month of July as markets were get turbulent, showing whatever metrics you care to unearth. You can choose any topic you’d like: How did the network perform? What about market performance? Were there significant inflows or outflows on bridges? Were there any notable patterns in user behavior?
Flow-NFT Wallet Behavior Comparison
Jul 16, 2022 - Create a series of dashboards comparing wallet behavior for buying and selling NFTs on Flow compared to Ethereum and Solana. Is there more or less "whale" activity on Flow compared to each of the other chains? What do "whales" tend to focus on in Flow? How common is "flipping" on Flow (selling within 24 hrs, within a week etc) compared to other chains, or do wallets tend to hold onto their NFTs? Are wallets more interested in new projects, or already existing projects on Flow?
ETH Removed
Sep 16, 2022 - -- Examine user behavior in recent weeks leading up to the merge on at least 3 major protocols. -- Have there been any changes in the amount of ETH removed from protocols like Uniswap and Aave? -- Note any trends or outliers you find.
Flow-5.Volume Scoring with NBA Top Shot
Jun 7, 2022 - -- Q5. NBA Top Shot allows users to buy, sell, and collect NBA NFTs that showcase influential “Moments” minted on the FLOW blockchain. -- Create a visualization tracking the total sales volume traded on NBA Top Shot since May 9th by day. -- How many unique wallets have made a trade on Top Shot over that timeframe? -- How do those metrics compare to sales volume and unique users of Magic Eden on Solana and OpenSea on Ethereum?
Sushi-89. Gas as a proxy of activity
Jun 5, 2022 - -- Q89. How much did sushi users pay for gas in 2022? Is there a correlation with the price of ETH? Can you comment on the spikes in the chart?
Open Analytics Bounty: Optimism (August 14)
Aug 18, 2022 - This open bounty investigates the Overall Optimism Health Metrics Like DEXes Velodrome vs Uniswap vs Sushiswap, $VELO Locked, Voting, ETH Deposits and Transaction success rate.
Miso User Base
Sep 19, 2022 - -- How many users does it have across how many chains? -- Chart that by week and by month. -- Has the recent bear market affected that?
Flash Bounty: Merge Open Analytics
Sep 24, 2022 - We want to know all about the merge — and we’re turning to you for the answers. Take a deep dive into the ETH merge and switch to POS with this Open Analytics Bounty. This is a chance to explore the topic without any specific prompt, just a direction and a reward. It’s your chance to have your brain follow your heart — got a spark of interest, or a loose thread, or a weirdly-specific question gnawing at the back of your mind? Follow it as far as you can!
Open Analytics Bounty: MakerDAO (September 1) - Flash Loan Users
Sep 7, 2022 - It’s your chance to have your brain follow your heart — got a spark of interest, or a loose thread, or a weirdly-specific question gnawing at the back of your mind? Follow it as far as you can!
NEAR Meta-Analysis
Sep 15, 2022 - Take a look at the winning submission to our NEAR Tournament, as well as the three runner-up submissions (links can be found below).
Quix vs Magic Eden vs OpenSea
Sep 28, 2022 - -- Create a dashboard highlighting at least 3 metrics comparing marketplace performance and adoption -- between Quix (formerly Quixotic) on Optimism, Magic Eden on Solana, and OpenSea on Ethereum, since July of this year. -- What has been the rate of change of these metrics since the start of the new year and are there any signs of growth of a certain marketplace -- or ecosystem of NFTs? -- Highlight the 5 most popular NFT collections for each marketplace over that timeframe in terms of sales volume. -- Is the turnover rate (number of transactions) for collections on Quix noticeably higher than on OpenSea and Magic Eden? -- Provide some insights on these findings.