Swap n' Slippage
Feb 1, 2022 - When cryptocurrency traders place a buy or sell order on an exchange, they typically expect said order to be filled at the exact price they’ve chosen. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case, due to a costly problem called slippage. Slippage happens when traders have to settle for a different price than what they initially requested due to a movement in price between the time the order (say for Bitcoin) enters the market and the execution of a trade. This phenomenon can occur in all markets, like forex and stocks. However, it is more frequent, and a lot worse, in crypto markets (especially on decentralized exchanges like Uniswap) due to the high levels of price volatility. In addition, common pain points that the vast majority of altcoins suffer from such as low volume and liquidity may also contribute to slippage. In this article, we will get acquainted with the Slippage changes in Thorchain and we will see the factors that affect it.
Sablier Cash Streams
Apr 22, 2022 - Out of all streams of cash created on Sablier, how many have been cancelled before their stop time?
New Active Users
May 9, 2022 - Show the number of new unique users (wallets) per day that transacted with ParaSwap over the past two months.
Magic Eden Whales
Apr 10, 2022 - Track the top 20 wallets in terms of sales volume on Magic Eden since March 1st. What have these wallets been buying and selling the most over that time period? As in, which collections seem to have their attention? Do these wallets tend to ""sweep"" (buy a lot of the same collection at once) or patiently buy collections? How often are these wallets buying vs selling NFTs and what does their profit look like?
LUNA Price Prediction
Dec 7, 2021 - LUNA is a native token on the Terra blockchain, launched in 2018 by Terraform Labs. This chain hosts several fiat-pegged stablecoins, such as TerraUSD or TerraKRW, which are often collectively called Terra, too. LUNA has a few purposes in the network, one of which is to stabilize Terra coin prices. It also helps power Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol and grants its holders voting rights. The idea behind Terra is to drive crypto adoption by launching a whole basket of regional fiat-based stablecoins (their prices are broadcast on-chain by oracles) and supporting atomic swaps between them. This facilitates easy, low-fee cross-border transactions that allow its users not to worry about incurring losses due to the volatility usually inherent in crypto prices. Terra’s native token LUNA acts as a balancing token in this network. If any Terra crypto prices get “unhooked” from a fiat currency to which they’re pegged, the network users are incentivized to exchange their LUNA to Terra or vice versa. This makes Terra supply expand or contract, bringing its price back to the price of the fiat. As mentioned before, LUNA is also used for staking by validators and delegators in PoS protocol securing the network. Since LUNA is so vital for the whole Terra ecosystem, long-term LUNA holders get rewards for staking their tokens. They are comprised of gas fees, taxes, and seigniorage rewards for functioning as oracles.
Magic Eden vs OpenSea vs Random Earth
Mar 22, 2022 - Let's take a Look at Magic eden , opensea and randome earth marketplace, trade volume and users activity since start of the year.
Acquiring goBTC and goETH
Apr 6, 2022 - Where are users acquiring goBTC and goETH? Are they acquiring the assets by swapping or by minting? Has this changed over time? Explain the insights you find.
Repayment With Collateral Tokens on AAVE
Nov 7, 2021 - Aave V2 allows you to repay your debt/loans with your deposited collateral. Before V2, if a user wanted to use part of their collateral to repay a loan, they had to first withdraw the collateral, use it to buy the borrowed asset, and then finally repay the debt and unlock the deposited collateral. This requires at least 4 transactions across multiple protocols, costing time and money and making for an overall not-so-seamless experience. This new feature allows users to close their loan positions by paying directly with their collateral in just 1 transaction — smooth and simple.
ERC20 Tokens (zkSync)
Jun 15, 2022 - Users can also deposit ERC20 tokens into ZkSync. Which ERC20 tokens have been deposited the most (in $ volume and total count) in the last 60 days? Visualize and explain both findings.
NEAR Gas Guzzlers
Jul 25, 2022 - What contracts are users spending the most gas on to use? How has this changed over the past week? Past month?
Claimed ENS Token Distribution
Dec 18, 2021 - The $ENS token is an important step in further decentralizing the governance of the ENS protocol. The $ENS token empowers the community members to guide its development, community treasury, and technical framework. At 7pm ET Nov 8, 2021 the ENS governance token $ENS launches and the token claim site opens up to start claiming your tokens. If you owned an ENS domain on or before October 31, 2021 when the snapshot was taken, you are eligible to claim $ENS tokens based on the formula calculated on the history of your wallet address. Here’s what’s included in the formula: 1.Age of .ETH address 2.Expiry dates (longer registrations get more $ENS) 3.Owners who have set their Primary ENS, formerly called the Reverse Record, get a 2x multiplier What’s the average amount of ENS claimed from the airdrop? Now that we are familiar with ENS AirDrop, it is better to know on average, how much ENS has been claimed during the start of AirDrop so far. im gonna show you a histogram that shows claim size distribution. I divided the average ENS climate into 10-day time intervals from the start of AirDrop.
The Law Offices of NEAR
Aug 2, 2022 - Visualize the number of new smart contracts deployed over time over a time period of your choosing. What are the top 5 new smart contracts interacted in that period of your choosing?
RUNE bonded + slashed amounts
Jun 14, 2022 - How much RUNE is bonded, how much RUNE has been slashed from those bonds (total and or over time)?
HODL or Sell (that is the question)
Apr 2, 2022 - In a time period of your choice, identify accounts that have staked ETH with Lido when the price of ETH was much higher or much lower than it is now. Have they held or sold their stETH?
L1 Unique Users
Mar 14, 2022 - In this article we will examine, The effect of crypto market conditions on activity in solana, eth and terra networks.
Swaps + Pools Events On Pylon Protocol
Nov 3, 2021 - Reimagining the future of recurring payments and providing user-friendly platform integrations for the wide scale adoption of crypto, Pylon aims to become a must-have feature of the DeFi future. Pylon Protocol builds on stable yield-bearing protocol such as Anchor Protocol to provide services via retrievable key stablecoin deposits and yield redirection. In essence, users can deposit Terra stablecoins via Pylon in return for access to exclusive content, no-fee subscriptions, perpetual arts patronage or charitable donations, and lossless investments. Upon subscription expiry, users can withdraw their principal in full. On Pylon Gateway, which is Pylon Protocol’s first integrated use case and flagship platform, users can make investments at no-loss by depositing Terra stablecoins for a selected vesting period to earn project tokens and governance rights.
MNDE Liquidity Pool Deposits
May 18, 2022 - Track the flows of MNDE being deposited into liquidity pools across the Solana ecosystem. What protocols have seen the most MNDE deposits over time in liquidity pools (hint look into Orca, Rayidum, Serum, anything else?).
stETH Most Common Pools
Apr 27, 2022 - determine the pools most commonly used to swap in and out of stETH. What are the most common pairs? Which pools are most often used?
DAI on the Market (May 13)
May 15, 2022 - Analyze large shifts in the amount of DAI on the market over the past year. What might have caused these shifts? Are these events related to Maker directly? Are they related to the crypto ecosystem as a whole? Provide metrics to support your analysis.
Fuse Pool USDC Allocation
Mar 20, 2022 - Rari Capital comprises 4 main products: Fuse, Earn, Pool 2, and Tranches. Let's Take a look at one of the main product of rari capital, Fuse pools and understand how tokens in USDC Vault Being allocated on Fuse pools.
Revenue Distribution
Dec 25, 2021 - What effect did ENS Airdrop have on the registration of ENS addresses? Or what effect does it have on domain name renewal? (We will answer these questions by November 8th)
$RUNE Price vs Swapping Volume
Jan 23, 2022 - Governance tokens have many uses, in the Thorchain network the rune token plays the role of a governing token. RUNE is used as a liquidity pool pair for all native tokens from foreign blockchain networks linked to the THORChain network. Therefore, liquidity providers don’t have to submit liquidity pairs as is the case with most DEXs. RUNE is also used to secure the THORChain network as THORChains is secured by a variation of Proof of Stake called Proof of Bond. The PoB consensus protocol requires nodes to commit a RUNE bond of 1 million RUNE tokens to validate transactions in the network as well as participate in other activities in the ecosystem. If the nodes become malicious to the network, their bond is deducted proportionally to the amount of damage they cause. This incentives good behavior across the network. Transaction fees on THORChain are paid in RUNE including trading fees for all swaps. RUNE also serves as the network’s governance token as each RUNE token equates to a vote.
Member Roles (Bankless DAO)
Mar 6, 2022 - Let's take a look at BANK token holders over time, in last 90 days.
Fractionalized Dragons
Mar 16, 2022 - Bridgesplit enables any unique asset to become liquid and yield generative via NFT-collateralized lending, indexes, and more. Bridgesplit's Floor Indexes are a new NFT / DeFi primitive that enables users to create instant liquidity for their NFT assets with a fungible token that tracks the ""floor price"" of the respective NFT collection.
Liquidity Activity
Mar 6, 2022 - Which liquidity pools and platforms are users using to acquire BANK tokens? Which tokens are being swapped most to acquire BANK tokens?
Genopets Staking
May 29, 2022 - Genopets is a move-to-earn game reminiscent of Pokemon Go on Solana. Create a visualization showing the amount of staked GENE over time. How many unique wallets have staked $GENE since its inception on May 18th? What percentage of those stakers have previously purchased a Genopets NFT? What trends are you seeing with the Genopets NFT collection?
Metamask vs. Other Platforms
Jun 25, 2022 - 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.
New Active Users Paraswap
Dec 11, 2021 - What is ParaSwap? ParaSwap is a decentralized exchange aggregator that provides the best prices over multiple DEXs on the Ethereum blockchain. In these charts, we explain how many unique users have been transacted with the Paraswap platform in the last 2 months.
Block Rewards vs Swap Fees
Apr 25, 2022 - Breakdown the yield from block rewards vs swap fees, both total and by pool. Show how the proportions have changed over time since the network started.
DAI Volume Vs Other Stable Coins
Jan 18, 2022 - What Is DAI : Dai (or DAI, formerly Sai or SAI) is a stablecoin cryptocurrency which aims to keep its value as close to one United States dollar (USD) as possible through an automated system of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai is maintained and regulated by MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) composed of the owners of its governance token, MKR, who may vote on changes to certain parameters in its smart contracts in order to ensure the stability of Dai. What do we examine next? Comparing daily transaction volume of DAI vs Other Stablecoins on DEX swaps. in last 3 month. and, What is the DAI token mostly used for?
Vote On Solana
Feb 12, 2022 - Based On Solana docs , all Solana validators must submit vote transactions to delivered and encoded into the ledger, to be trustworthy and Reliable .
Top 10 Validators - Last 60 Days
Dec 12, 2021 - Validators are the miners of the Terra blockchain. They are responsible for securing the Terra blockchain and ensuring its accuracy. Validators run programs called full nodes which allow them to verify each transaction made on the Terra network. Validators propose blocks, vote on their validity, and add each new block to the chain in exchange for staking rewards from transaction fees. Users can stake their Luna to validators in exchange for staking rewards. Validators also play an important role in the governance of the Terra protocol. Let’s take a look at the top 10 validators on Terra by total voting power (total LUNA staked/delegated to them). and changes on luna volume delegate, redelegate, undelegate on validators over 60 days. delegate : luna amount staked on validator redelegate: when a user change his staking validator undelegate: unstake luna from a validator
Unique Programs On Solana
Feb 12, 2022 - One way to track developer growth in an ecosystem is through the number of unique contracts used. Create a visualization of the number of unique programs used per day since the beginning of January. What are the 5 most commonly used programs over that timeframe? What do those programs do and why do you think they are so popular?
xSushi Total Supply
Jan 24, 2022 - What is xSUSHI? xSUSHI is a token, similar to other SLP tokens, that you receive in exchange for staking SUSHI tokens in the SushiBar on sushiswap platform. While holding the token, it will appreciate in value, as fees from sushiswap exchange platform are "served to the SushiBar." The xSUSHI token is always worth more than a regular SUSHI token, because xSUSHI accrues value from platform fees. When users make trades on the SushiSwap exchange a 0.3% fee is charged. 0.05% of this fee is added to the SushiBar pool in the form of LP tokens. When the rewards contract is called (minimum once per day) all the LP tokens are sold for Sushi (on SushiSwap Exchange). The newly purchased Sushi is then divided up proportionally between all of the xSUSHI holders in the pool, meaning their xSUSHI is now worth more SUSHI. Because of the way the rewards are generated, the price of xSUSHI will increase with the value of SUSHI, and the value of one xSUSHI will always be greater than the value of one SUSHI.
Friktion Lightning OGs
Mar 28, 2022 - Friktion has a community NFT created for its loyal supporters called the Lightning OGs. Friktion airdropped 2,222 commemorative NFTs to Friktion's earliest members. Let's explore This NFT trading volume on magic eden marketplace.
Flow Speed
Jun 5, 2022 - One of Flow's main features is its speed compared to other blockchains. Blockchain performance can be measured as Transactions per minute. Measure the transactions per minute of Flow since May 9th and 'Successful transactions per minute' and create a chart showing how that metric has fluctuated during that time period. What types of events have raised or decreased the blockchain's performance over that time period? Are there bursts of transaction volume or interest on the chain? Compare Flow's speed to at least two other blockchains.
Gain or Lose?
Apr 2, 2022 - Of the stakers that have swapped ETH to stETH, how much ETH did they gain or lose depending on the peg of stETH to ETH at the time of the swap? Repeat the same analysis for stakers who have swapped stETH to ETH; how much ETH did they gain or lose?
DOGE-RUNE LP-ers
Feb 2, 2022 - Through the DOGE liquidity pool, users on the THORCHAIN will have a chance to trade their Dogecoin and earn yield from their holdings. Holders of Dogecoin can also swap the meme coin with the other cryptocurrencies supported on the platform. DOGE holders can swap the token for Bitcoin, Ether, Binance Coin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and several stablecoins. Other assets on Binance Smart Chain and Ethereum will also be supported. The launch of this pool will allow holders of Dogecoin to become liquidity providers on ThorChain. As such, they will generate yields on the protocol. ThorChain allows users to lower the risk of suffering from the same losses as primary risk liquidity providers.