The Law Offices of NEAR
Aug 4, 2022 - Provide your best assessment of the number of smart contracts deployed on NEAR and clearly outline your methodology (after all, contract lawyers love clearly specified terms). 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?
Open Analytics Vol. II: Environmental Impact Study
Oct 5, 2022 - Recently, we analyzed SWEAT - one of the premier projects on NEAR. Do a deep dive into another project on NEAR and analyze its impact, defining metrics for “impact” and displaying them with data. What contributions is your chosen project making to NEAR? You don’t need to choose one of the biggest or most impactful projects - and your research can include qualitative assessment as well. As usual: cite the source for any outside work or explanations that you use. A brief overview of your chosen project will suffice; focus your power on answering the question:“What impact is this project having on NEAR? How much is it contributing, and how do you know?”Grand prize eligibility will also include brief recommendations on how this project could maximize its impact, and how you would track the results of your proposed interventions.
Seasons in the City
Oct 18, 2022 - It’s autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. What season is it in the City of NEAR? Pick one of the districts from the NEAR Tournament and review how activity there has changed over the past 90 days. What has changed? What trends can you spot? Is it truly “winter” in your chosen “district” or area (NFTs, DeFi, etc.)? Grand Prize questions (11 or 12) will go deeper into the why - what is driving any of these changes? BONUS: Post your dashboard on Twitter and tag @flipsidecrypto and any relevant accounts!
NEAR Meta-Analysis
Sep 14, 2022 - Take a look at the winning submission to our NEAR Tournament, as well as the three runner-up submissions. Craft your own remix to these dashboards, analyzing and summarizing the most important points in a single easy-to-view dashboard, with your own original commentary. You can draw on any dashboards submitted as part of the tournament (including your own), but make sure to give credit to anyone whose work you use!
NEAR City Layout
Nov 9, 2022 - How centralized or decentralized is NEAR, really? Choose at least two distinct measures of decentralization that can be explored with on-chain data; clearly define those metrics; and outline how NEAR performs based on those metrics. In your view, is NEAR becoming more centralized or decentralized over time? You are welcome to draw on any past submissions in your work, but ensure you credit and link to the original creator (bonus points if you shout them out on Twitter). BONUS: Post your dashboard on Twitter and tag @flipsidecrypto and any relevant accounts!
Tourist Journeys
Oct 26, 2022 - Select one of the key Districts from the NEAR tournament, and compare it to a similar district in another “city” (that is, another Layer 1 blockchain). Look at the past 90 days and visualize the relative progress of these two L1s, using at least 3 metrics of your definition. BONUS: Post your dashboard on Twitter and tag @flipsidecrypto and any relevant accounts!
City Amidst the Storm
Nov 16, 2022 - Provide a thoughtful analysis of how NEAR is weathering the market turbulence that occurred as a result of FTX’ insolvency. You can include baseline measures, e.g. token price, transaction volume - but go beyond that and apply your analysis skills. Choose and define at least 2 measures of ecosystem health, and assess how NEAR is performing on those metrics between the week of 11/7 and 11/14. BONUS: Post your dashboard on Twitter and tag @flipsidecrypto and any relevant accounts!
