NEAR Horizon Activity
May 21, 2023 - NEAR Horizon, an early stage accelerator on NEAR's Blockchain Operating System (BOS), has achieved key insights. It has a steady user base, with consistent activity and moderate transactions. User adoption occurred in two phases, indicating sustained growth. NEAR Horizon offers cost-effective solutions with low gas expenditure. Education and Social Media are popular sectors, with top projects being NEAR Crowd, ZomLand, and NEAR Social. These insights highlight NEAR Horizon's success in user-friendly growth within the NEAR ecosystem.
NEAR - 13. Insight of the Week
Feb 18, 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.
What's going on in Ref-finance?
Apr 8, 2023 - key insights: The protocol saw a decrease in staking activity over the past 6 months, with staking transactions and stakers dropping from over 150 per day to below 50. Staking volume followed this pattern as well. The USDT-NEAR pool had a significant amount of liquidity added, while the ETH-NEAR and REF-NEAR pools had liquidity drop below zero due to market conditions. The most popular pairs for swapping to/from $NEAR over the past 6 months were stablecoin pairs, but non-stablecoin pairs have recently overtaken them in terms of swap metrics due to an upward trend in the crypto market. The wNEAR => USDC.e pair had the most swap transactions count and swapped volume in all time periods.
NEAR - 12. The Whales of NEAR
Feb 11, 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?
Spill the (USD)T
Jun 11, 2023 - This analysis examines the usage of USDT (Tether) within the NEAR Protocol ecosystem, focusing on swaps, transfers, and user behavior. USDT serves as a popular stablecoin for trading and transactions on NEAR, with DAI and PEM being the top trading pairs. DeFi is the leading destination for USDT transfers, followed by staking and centralized exchanges (CEXs). Pembrock and Null addresses are significant destinations for USDT transfers, and user actions primarily involve transferring, depositing, and withdrawing USDT. Bridging between Ethereum and Aurora networks is prominent, and Gate.io and Binance are the primary CEXs for USDT transfers. Overall, USDT's integration brings stability and liquidity to NEAR, shaping decentralized finance and driving broader adoption within the ecosystem.
Decentralization Progress
Apr 20, 2023 - key takeaways: The network has 457 validators, with over 95% of staked tokens delegated to the top 10 validators. 655.8M FLOW tokens have been staked by 41.1K unique delegators, with increasing trends in the count of delegations and unique delegators. Comparisons to other chains, such as Near protocol, provide context on market potential and adoption for the Flow network.