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Secrets of the NETH-erworld
Mar 1, 2023 - The day that many citizens of the City of Near had been waiting for finally arrived late last year. As of December 19, 2022, NEAR is compatible with MetaMask, marking the first time a non-EVM chain has offered compatibility with the popular ETH wallet. This was made possible by a smart contract called NETH. You can find more about how NETH works here. Now that the contact and ensuing compatibility has been live for nearly three months, it's time to dive deeper into the data. Create a dashboard monitoring NETH's adoption and usage, paying special attention to any notable trends, outliers, or other events.
NEAR - 4. New and Improved Transparency Report
Dec 14, 2022 - We want your help in making the NEAR ecosystem even more transparent. How can you improve on the existing NEAR Transparency report?
Adding to the Margin with MarginFi
Mar 3, 2023 - MarginFi just launched to mainnet as a lending foundation for Solana. After the FTX collapse, Solana defi has been somewhat nonexistent outside of dex swaps. MarginFi is the first new product in the wave of "Defi 2.0" on Solana. Create a dashboard that tracks key KPI's for MarginFi. How has adoption been so far and what pools have been most popular? What type of user has experimented with MarginFi so far? What other programs have users been exposed to (Solend, Jet etc) that are now using MarginFi? What do borrowers do with their new found capital after using MarginFi? Are there signs of early growth of this new wave of Solana defi?
Solana - 6. NFT Lendooors on Solana
Feb 18, 2023 - The Famous Fox Federation just released their new NFT lending program called Citrus. See https://twitter.com/FamousFoxFed/status/1623395701366394882?s=20&t=0VbGloGM8gGssZkI2j9x7A for the announcement and more details. The NFT lending space on Solana has been picking up and gained popularity over time as a way to essentially gain leverage on NFTs as a borrower and gain yield on SOL as a lender. Compare Key Performance Indicators between the major NFT lending protocols out there (Citrus, Sharky, Frakt, Yawww). Who is gaining the most market share? Why would a user use one protocol over the other? What NFTs are most popular on each platform? Due to the rise in the price of SOL in January, there has been more pressure applied to borrowers to pay back their loans. Some lenders have been forced to take in NFTs that are now priced in SOL lower than their set loan price. Is there a noticeable increase in default rate over the past month on NFT loans? Which protocol has had the most defaults, and which NFTs have caused the most defaults? Is there evidence that leverage is unwinding in the market right now?
Axelar Bridge
Nov 26, 2022 - let's take that a step further and plot out user types and their behavior leveraging Axelar's bridge. How often are people using Satellite - one-time transfers into IBC or more consistent/steady streams? Does this vary based on wallet size? Does this vary based on the ecosystem they are bridging from/to?
Aurora Contract A Crosschain Bridge on Near
Apr 26, 2023 - Let's dig into users that have interacted with the Aurora contract on NEAR. Let's look at how many distinct users have interacted with the contract. Additionally, break out contract interactions, user interactions, and unique user interactions by day. Include any additional insights about the usage of the Aurora contract on NEAR.
NEAR - 9. Developer Activity
Jan 23, 2023 - With Electric Capital’s release of its annual report on developer activity, the topic of “developers” is a hot topic across crypto. Produce a rich analysis of NEAR developer activity, using metrics and definitions of your choice to answer the questions: How many developers are active on NEAR? How active are they? How this has changed over time? Feel free to reference (and cite) the Electric Capital report to provide background, but the vast majority of your dashboard should be original work that provides a supplemental view to that report.
NEAR - 10. The Path to Decentralization
Jan 29, 2023 - NEAR has expressed its goals to decentralize in 2023. Simply put: are these efforts working? Create a stylish, refined dashboard that enables viewers to assess both individual validators on NEAR, and validation as a whole (bonus points if you find a way to enable parameters or dropdowns that display different validators). As ever, you are welcome to draw on past/existing work that explores governance on NEAR, as long as you provide credit to your original sources. Ensure your dashboard can answer the question: is NEAR becoming more decentralized, or less? Note: make sure your dashboard can load within a few seconds! Submissions that take a while to load will not score as highly.
NEAR - 14. Gains Network
Feb 23, 2023 - The NEAR/USD pair recently launched on gTrade, a leveraged trading platform on the Gains Network protocol . Dive in and create an analysis covering two topics: In the first portion of your dashboard, analyze market sentiment based on long and short positions around the NEAR token. In the second portion of your dashboard, compare the number and volume of positions being created around the NEAR asset compared to other assets listed on gTrade.
NEAR - 12. The Whales of NEAR
Feb 16, 2023 - Where in the ocean of NEAR do the whales hang out? Examine the top 20 addresses by amount of NEAR held - excluding any custodial or exchange addresses that you can. Can you identify any “power players” or wallets of interest? What behaviors do these whales exhibit?