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Solana - 4. The Solana Smart Money
Feb 4, 2023 - Create a dashboard that tracks the most profitable traders on Solana (both in terms of token swaps and with NFTs). Use parameters to help define who falls under the category of most profitable and over what timeframe. What has "smart money" been doing on Solana over the past month? Over the past week? Are they active traders or do they hold positions for days at a time? What projects have yielded the most profit for Solana traders? Are there any indicators of what their next trades or strategy will be? How does your dashboard compare to Hellomoon's smart money inflows and outflows?
The Battle of the Solana NFT Aggregator
Oct 30, 2022 - -- Hyperspace and Coral Cube are the two most popular NFT aggregators on Solana. -- This means that they list all NFTs across different marketplaces along with allowing listings on their own marketplace. -- Create a dashboard comparing KPIs between Hyperspace and Coral Cube. -- Which marketplace has done more volume? Which collections are popular on each marketplace? Why would I use one marketplace over the other? -- Are there any noticeable market trends between the marketplaces, especially after Solana marketplaces moved to a 0% creator royalty?
Solana-Waiting for Aurory
Jul 18, 2022 - -- Aurory is one of the most highly anticipated games to come out on any chain. -- Create a dashboard highlighting wallet trends around both the tokens and NFTs. -- Does the price of Aurory token has positive correlation with volume of nft sales? -- How have token staking and nft expedition patterns changed in the bear market? -- What have wallets been doing with their airdropped NFTs?
Merry $BONK-ing Christmas
Jan 4, 2023 - -- Total # of holders -- % of holders that are active wallets -- Average amount $bonk in holder wallets -- Average time holding bonk -- Any other notable trends or outliers you see -- Then, give us context! What kinds of Solana users are $bonk holders? How active are they, what other tokens do they tend to hold, etc. -- Has Solana activity as a whole risen in conjunction with recent $bonk activity, and how much Solana activity does Bonk Inu account for? -- And as always, don't forget to tweet about your dashboard and $bonk, to share your insights with others!
Solana-97.Solana Protocol Feature Saber - To SOL
Jul 13, 2022 - -- Q97. Choose a defi protocol from the following list and create a dashboard with the new Flipside layout that can refresh -- once a day highlighting at least 4 metrics of your choosing that helps show the "health" of the protocol and what is happening on it. -- Note any noticeable trends or current events for the protocol. Highlight how liquidity is -- flowing in and out of the protocol and which pools are popular.
In the News - 12. Groundhog Day
Jan 17, 2023 - It’s been a harsh few months of winter in the crypto market, with token prices falling hard and once-stable companies and organizations reducing workforces or even vanishing overnight. With Coinbase announcing another layoff of nearly 20% of employees, some might be feeling like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, forced to relive events over and over again. With that in mind, let’s turn to our friend the groundhog for an early crypto-winter prediction: are we nearly through to spring, or will winter’s cold snap continue on even longer? Back your assertion by creating a dashboard with on-chain data that supports your arguments in favor of either a continued downturn in the space or a soon-to-come rally.
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.
Flow-13.Flow vs Other L1s
Jun 17, 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
Solana-Core-3. Are delegators commission sensitive? How sensitive are they?
Jul 26, 2022 - -- 3. Are delegators commission sensitive? How sensitive are they?
Terra - 6. New Year, New LUNA?
Jan 7, 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. Has this flurry of winter activity impacted the Terra ecosystem? 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? Create a dashboard documenting significant trends in transactions, wallets, supply, staking, development, or other aspects of the Terra ecosystem. Note any changes in metrics such as the average and total transactions per week and the fees associated with them, the total and average number of new wallets created each week, the total and average number of contracts deployed, LUNA staked, and anything else you interesting.
Solana-103.Going Down The Wormhole
Aug 9, 2022 - -- Q103. Create a dashboard that can refresh daily with metrics that provide a detailed picture of Wormhole activity -- both from Ethereum to Solana and from Solana to Ethereum. -- How are tokens being bridged from chain to chain and which actions seem to be popular among users of Wormhole? -- What actions seem to influence bridging behavior? -- What are users doing before and after bridging? -- Do users seem to think that bridging is safe or more risky relative to transfers to centralized exchanges?
Polygon Block Performance
Jul 23, 2022 - -- Polygon Block Performance -- What was the maximum and minimum recorded time between two blocks? -- How many transactions are done in a block on average? -- How do these numbers compare to L1 such as Flow or Solana, or other L2 such as Arbitrum or Optimism?
Solana Flash Bounty: Saga
Jun 24, 2022 - -- How many wallets have pre ordered Saga (the new solana phone) so far? -- Note: the preorder is a NFT purchase on-chain. -- Who is preordering the phone? Provide a breakdown of the type of wallets ordering so far. -- Example metrics to investigate: what other programs are these wallets interacting with, how active have these wallets been on Solana, are they average users or whales?
Flow-10.NFT Buying Behavior on Flow
Jun 12, 2022 - -- Q10. Create a series of dashboards comparing wallet behavior for buying and selling NFTs on Flow compared to on 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?
Solana-Core-2. Duration of stake accounts delegated per validator?
Jul 27, 2022 - -- 2. Duration of stake accounts delegated per validator?
Solana-85.Onboarding with Solana NFTs - Onboarding
Jun 14, 2022 - -- Q85. It has been said that Solana NFTs have become a powerful onboarding tool into the Solana ecosystem. -- Is this narrative true? Which NFTs have captured the most first time users of the Solana blockchain? -- What kinds of activities do these wallets tend to do after buying their first NFT? -- Do you think the NFT growth on Solana will spill over into Defi?
Solana-107.DUST is in the Air
Sep 8, 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.
Solana-Core-1. How often do delegators switch validators?
Jul 26, 2022 - 1. How often do delegators switch validators?
Solend TVL Tracking
Aug 25, 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 and is it gaining traction in the Solana ecosystem?
Solana NFT Championship
Oct 10, 2022 - There’s no shortage of sports-related NFTs on Solana, from Collectorz Club and Suites to Laidback Lions and Aaron Jones’ Showtime collection — but who can lay claim to the title of Solana sports NFT champion?
Solana-81.Smart Money NFT Traders
Jun 6, 2022 - -- Q81. Which wallets have made the most SOL off NFT mints and NFT trades since the start of the new year? -- What types of actions have led to being a profitable NFT trader on SOL? -- Is there a pattern behind their NFT trading strategy and can you define some of these traders as "smart money"? -- Do you think you need to be a "whale" to do well trading SOL NFTs, or can anyone have success in this market?
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?
Solana-84.Hot Ball of Money (Solana NFTs)
Jun 14, 2022 - -- Q84. 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?
Solana-101.Solend Demographics
Aug 4, 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 $1-1,000, 1,000 - 100k, etc). -- Is the protocol largely influenced by whales, or by average Solana users?
Solana Free Square-Orca Trading Pairs
Jun 13, 2022 - Q86. This week we want to try something new. We want you to essentially write your own bounty question and answer it yourself. Pick any topic around Solana that you find relevant and interesting and analyze it.
Solana-Foundation-2.Tracking USDC & USDT on Solana
Jun 17, 2022 - -- Q2. What's the current market share for USDC and USDT on Solana relative to other stablecoins in the ecosystem -- (look into USDC, USDT, UXD, USDH, PAI, NIRV, UST, DAI, FRAX)? -- Create a visualization showing the amount of transaction volume for USDC vs. USDT etc. do display popularity within Solana. -- For USDC and USDT specifically, breakdown the transaction activity by contract and exchange flows -- (i.e. which dapps and addresses hold the majority of USDC and USDT and what do cumulative flows to and from exchanges look like over time)? -- Reference these older dashboards by ltirrell and adriaparcerisas as examples: -- https://app.flipsidecrypto.com/dashboard/stablecoin-popularity-UOlg-v -- https://app.flipsidecrypto.com/dashboard/solana-stables-EJCpX0
Flow vs Other L1s Pt (II)
Jul 16, 2022 - How does Flow compare to other L1s in terms of user retention? Is a user who made a transaction previously likely to make another transaction a week or a month later? Compare and contrast this type of activity vs other L1s like Solana and Ethereum.
Solana-96.Moving to Earn in the Bear Market
Jul 13, 2022 - -- Q96. Move to Earn projects have been growing in popularity, especially on Solana after the explosion of StepN. -- Projects like Genopets and Stepn both won Solana Hackathon awards and are two of the most popular games in the field. -- Each of their own NFT ecosystems and two native tokens ($GMT and $GST for StepN, $GENE and $KI for Genopets). -- Compare these two projects in terms of users, token flows, and NFT volume. -- How can these tokens stay popular in bear market and build their own resilient gaming economies?