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The Law Offices of NEAR
Jul 31, 2022 - Q7. 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?
Social Segmentation
Mar 12, 2023 - Unlocking the Power of On-Chain Insights for Near Social Users
NEAR Monthly Active Users ( MAUs )
Jul 27, 2023 - Our north star metric, Monthly Active Accounts, was at 1.1M at the end of Q2, 100k shy of the 1.2M target. We’ve seen continued strong traction from SWEAT, who are still the largest partner on NEAR in terms of MAA. The slight miss to the goal can mainly be attributed to longer than anticipated lead times in partnerships going from announcement to mainnet.
NEAR - 11. Insight of the Week - NFT Creators & Honorary Bored Ape
Feb 5, 2023 - The NEAR Foundation is running an "Insight of the Week" series. Keeping your analysis short and focused on excellent-quality visualization - provide the most fascinating or illuminating fact or insight that you can about the NEAR ecosystem, or any of the projects building on NEAR, over the past 7 to 14 days. When you tweet about the insight, don't just describe it - do your best to explain "why" what you chose is unusual, valuable, or noteworthy.
NEAR Local Government
Aug 1, 2022 - Every city has its governors, and the City of NEAR is no different. Assess the state of governance on NEAR, with an eye toward assessing its decentralization.
NEAR City Layout
Oct 29, 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). Grand Prize submissions will also explore these metrics for at least one other blockchain.
NEAR Labels Analysis Dashboard
May 13, 2023 - Identifying Top Gas-Generating Projects and Stickiest Users.
Orderly Network Dashboard
Apr 10, 2023 - Protocol metrics + deep dive analysis of the Orderly Network
Competition Impact on Gains Network
Mar 8, 2023 - Assessing the Impact of the Gaines Network Trading Contest on Trade Volume, Traders, and User Growth
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?
Activity with NEAR Blockchain Projects and NEAR Horizon
Jun 21, 2023 - Analyze active projects on the NEAR blockchain and NEAR Horizon
Decentralization Progress
Apr 17, 2023 - The path for Flow has always been progressive decentralization over time. In the last year, various upgrades have enabled network participants to stake Flow, run nodes & validators, and more to drive the chain toward decentralization. Visualize that progress; how many nodes or validators are run on the network, & how does that compare with other chains? How much FLOW is staked, and by how many users? What else can you add to visualize the progress?
NEAR GitHub Activity
Mar 21, 2024 - - Tracking weekly and monthly active developers to NEAR related GitHub repositories from the dataset: near.core.fact_developer_activity - Data is refreshed weekly after Monday at 00:00UTC - MAD does not currently include tracking for Component Developers
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.
Tourist Journeys
Oct 25, 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.
Polygon Block Performance
Jul 27, 2022 - What is the average time between blocks on Polygon? 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?