NEAR - 10. The Path to Decentralization
Jan 29, 2023 - -- 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.
In the News - 12. Groundhog Day
Jan 17, 2023 - It’s been a harsh few months of winter in the crypto market, with token prices falling hard and once-stable companies and organizations reducing workforces or even vanishing overnight. With Coinbase announcing another layoff of nearly 20% of employees, some might be feeling like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, forced to relive events over and over again. With that in mind, let’s turn to our friend the groundhog for an early crypto-winter prediction: are we nearly through to spring, or will winter’s cold snap continue on even longer? Back your assertion by creating a dashboard with on-chain data that supports your arguments in favor of either a continued downturn in the space or a soon-to-come rally.
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?
NEAR - 7. Weekly Report - Redux
Jan 14, 2023 - Each week, the NEAR Foundation publishes data to help the NEAR community understand the ecosystem's health as part of their Transparency Report. We want your help in making the NEAR ecosystem even more transparent. How can you improve on the existing NEAR Transparency report? Explain which metrics should be taken into consideration and why. Then, analyze those metrics over the last several weeks and draw your own conclusions on the health of the NEAR ecosystem. Grand prize-winning dashboards will go above and beyond the existing report, allowing readers to get the best possible snapshot of NEAR, its users, and its ecosystem.
Near-9. New NEAR Users
Sep 8, 2022 - What actions does a user take when they deposit money into the NEAR ecosystem?
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 - 12. The Whales of NEAR
Feb 15, 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?
NEAR Gas Guzzlers
Jul 23, 2022 - -- What contracts are users spending the most gas on to use? -- How has this changed over the past week? Past month?
NEAR Tournament Round IV: The Journeymen
Aug 18, 2022 - -- Analyze the journey of active NEAR users. -- After bridging to NEAR, where do they head first? -- How many users are day trading in the financial district, -- and how many are buyers and sellers on the NFT marketplaces of the Arts district? -- Who are the whales, and is their activity any different from that of smaller fish? -- Top submissions should provide an in-depth analysis of the typical NEAR user journey, from small fish to the biggest whales.
Near-7.The Law Offices of NEAR
Aug 3, 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?
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.
NEAR Tournament Round 3: The Financial District
Aug 7, 2022 - Provide and explore key health metrics, as well as detailed data on at least 1 key project.
NEAR - 13. Insight of the Week - turkishrelief.antisociallabs.near
Feb 17, 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 - 6. NEAR Foundation Transparency Report: Q3, 2022
Jan 10, 2023 - Each quarter, the NEAR Foundation publishes data to help the NEAR community understand the health of the ecosystem as part of their NEAR Foundation Transparency Report. We want your help in making the NEAR ecosystem even more transparent. How can you improve on the existing Transparency Report? Explain which metrics should be taken into consideration and why. Then, analyze those metrics over the last several weeks and draw your own conclusions on the health of the NEAR ecosystem.
Near-10.NEAR Distribution
Sep 8, 2022 - -- Q10.Calculate the distribution of $NEAR holdings by address. -- In terms of charts, feel free to create a histogram or whichever visual you think works best!
NEAR Meta-Analysis
Sep 15, 2022 - Take a look at the winning submission to our NEAR Tournament, as well as the three runner-up submissions (links can be found below).
Seasons in the City - The Financial District
Oct 19, 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.)?