WHAT IS REF FINANCE ?

• Ref Finance was initially created by Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol. The first commit on Github was made on March 9, 2021. Following the deployment of the application in April 2021, Proximity Labs, a research and development company focused on NEAR, received a grant from the NEAR Foundation to bootstrap and scale Ref Finance.

• Ref Finance is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) launched on the NEAR blockchain. As an Automated Market Maker, it is a DeFi marketplace for NEAR native tokens that leverages NEAR’s low fees, ultra-fast finality and web assembly-based runtime.

• On Ref Finance, users can trade tokens using its AMM exchange and stake LP tokens into farms which provides liquidity to the system. Through the already initiated token swaps and pool-swapped tokens with NEAR-based projects, an active market is formed with active liquidity.

AIM

• This dashboard has been designed to provide real-time insights into the usage of the Ref Finance protocol. As a monitoring tool, it offers a comprehensive view of the performance of the various liquidity pools, transaction volumes, and user activity E.T.C. The dashboard is an essential resource for monitoring the protocol's health and make informed decisions to optimize its functionality.

THIS DASHBOARD IS DIVIDED INTO 6 TABS :

1. Swaps. This section is based on the swaps / transactions that have occured on Ref Finance. It is further broken down into swaps / transactions distribution and transactions fees.
2. Volume. Here I analyze the inflow of stable coins, and over all volume related to Ref Finance.
3. Users. In this tab, I show the active users of the protocol through the lens of different metrics.
4. Pools. I broke down the protocol pools into the pools with the most users, volume, swaps and the one that has generated the most fees for liquidity providers.
5. Search. This tab is a utility tool for any user who has utilized Ref Finance in the past to vizualize their transactions.
6. Key Insights.

HOW TO USE DASHBOARD PARAMETERS:

1. Time Period. This give the option for a user to select how far back in time the user wants to fetch data for the sake of visualization. Current Options are 2 years,1 year,1 month,3 months,6 months.
2. Time Frame. This gives the option to view the data based on day, weeks, or months.

Note that by default Time Period is set to 2 years and Time Frame is set to day.