Steady As She Goes
Feb 27, 2022 - A common talking point on Twitter is that LUNA is resistant to broader market downturns, when compared to other leading cryptocurrencies. Assess this claim, using data drawn from a time period of your choosing. In making your argument, acknowledge the unknowns and address potential criticisms of your chosen position. Additionally, clearly define your definition of stability or resistance to broader market pressures, as well as your benchmarks for comparison (i.e. what are you comparing LUNA to, and how does it perform vs. its peers/competitors?)
Active Daily Wallets
Mar 1, 2022 - Algorand Q30: Let's look at daily active addresses on Algorand. -Compare the number of active daily wallets for the month of January 2022 to December 2021 and January 2021. What day had the most active number of wallets in January 2022? Was there an event on Algorand associated with this date?
Pleasure to Burn
Feb 26, 2022 - How much LUNA has been burned over the past 30 days? How has the supply of UST changed over the same time period? Display both of these, using visualizations.
IL Payout vs LP Age
May 7, 2022 - Show a breakdown of the average IL payout by the amount of time spent in the pool
Where’s The Pot of Gold?
Mar 20, 2022 - Q168. What % of the bAsset market cap for bLUNA and bETH is locked as collateral on Anchor? Show where else bLUNA/bETH is being held, and explain why you think this is.
Friktion's Crab Strategy
Apr 24, 2022 - Friktion recently launched a new product offering, Volt #03 - a volatility yield strategy for stablecoins in crab markets. Track the deposit activity into the Crab Volt. How many unique wallets have used the strategy since April 11th? What other Friktion Volts have these wallets used since March 1st? What is the crossover between the Volt #1 Bitcoin strategy and the Crab Volt? Why would a wallet prefer to use this Crab Volt instead of the other products?
Standardized TVL over time (all pools)
Apr 16, 2022 - Q64. Traditional TVL metrics are imperfect because they are influenced by both the quantity and price of the tokens over time. We would like to see a version of this metric that abstracts out the price influence on this metric.
Secondary Sales Activity
Jun 21, 2022 - Q2. How many Lil Nouns have been sold on a secondary exchange within 24 hours of being minted? Are there any common traits among these Lil Nouns? Which Lil Noun’s have the biggest difference (positive or negative) between their mint price and secondary sale price? Visualize and analyze your findings.
Balloonsville Rug Pull
Feb 22, 2022 - Balloonsville is an NFT project that launched on the Magic Eden marketplace on February 5th, 2022 and rugged the following day. Due to the nature of the rug, this caused a large controversy in the Solana NFT community. Since February 5th, what is the total volume of Balloonsville secondary sales on Magic Eden? Over the same time period, what is the average sales price of Balloonsville NFTs on Magic Eden? Create a visualization of the sales volume and price over time of Balloonsville NFTs and provide insights about any spikes or trends you see.
2022 Yieldly Staking Pool Analysis
May 22, 2022 - Q75. Let's get a better understanding of the YLDY staking pool usage in 2022. In 2022 what have been the most popular Yieldly staking pools by the amount of YLDY staked, total number of stakers, and average amount staked? Additionally, show us how staking pool participating has evolved over time in 2022. Do we see more wallets participating in staking pools now or less? Do we see more wallets participating in staking pools but committing less amounts? Note how behavior has changed around these staking pools. Does the price of ALGO impact the number of users participating and staking pools? Are there any standout wallets that have staked in a lot of these Yieldly staking pools? Note any other interesting findings about the Yieldly staking pools and their usage.
L1 Unique Users
Mar 15, 2022 - Compare the number of unique wallets that have sent a transaction since February 1st on Solana vs Ethereum vs Terra. How does user adoption seem to be trending for Solana compared to these other major chains? Does it appear that market conditions are slowing down growth or activity on the networks?
The Red Planet
Apr 3, 2022 - Q174. Define and assess two key metrics for the performance of Mars Protocol since launch. How is Mars doing, according to these metrics?
Swap Sizes
Feb 6, 2022 - Question 37: Show the daily average swap size over time for the 10 largest liquidity pools (in terms of value locked). How has this swap size changed over time? Why might this be?
ASA Dex Degens
Mar 22, 2022 - Q38. Let's look at DEX wallet behavior with the algorand.swaps table to get an idea of how many swaps wallets are being conducted and see how many ASAs wallets are trading.
Pooly NFTs
Jun 21, 2022 - Q2. How many Pooly NFTs have been minted thus far, and by how many unique wallets? How many Pooly NFTs does the average collector hold?
Algorand Foundation New CEO Staci Warden
Mar 9, 2022 - Question 31: Algorand Foundation appointed a new CEO Staci Warden on February 10th 2022. How did this impact the Algorand ecosystem? The week following announcement did we see an increase of ALGOs being moved from CEXs(centralized exchanges) to wallets? Or did we see an increase of ALGOs being moved from wallets back to CEXs?
Cosmic Champs Token Launch
Apr 27, 2022 - Algorand based NFT Game Cosmic Champs have launched their project token $COSG. Let’s look at what users are doing with it.
New User Activity
Feb 11, 2022 - For new users, what is the most common first program that users interact with on Solana (as in what is the most popular first transaction for a new wallet)? What is the average number of transactions a "new wallet" makes in their first 24 hours? (New wallet defined when a wallet makes its first transaction). Do you think this is more or less than other chains? Note: Limit this analysis to the month of February.
Tinyman Farming Pool Incentives
May 19, 2022 - Q71. Tinyman is currently offering incentivized LP farming on USDt/ALGO USDC/ALGO and USDC/USDt pairs(https://app.tinyman.org/#/staking) Show how these rewards impact the number of mints and burns of these pools compared to some of the other large pools on Tinyman. Also show how these rewards impact the number of mints and burns of these pools(before rewards and during).
Gainers and Losers
Jan 12, 2022 - The data for the last 24 hours is incomplete; I only have a little amount of data for volume for the previous 24 hours. This is why the block timestamp was filtered 5 and 6 days earlier ( but still spanning 24 hours). As a result, the data retrieved for my analysis will be more thorough.
Daily stETH Metrics
Jun 8, 2022 - Q3. Find the following stETH metrics: Daily volume of stETH? -Average stake size? -Number of stakers over time? -Average time staked? -Staking/unstaking per day?
Fuse Pool Analysis
May 23, 2022 - Q3. Are the DAI and USDC Vaults using the same Fuse Pools to seek yield? What differences can you identify?
AlgoFi's AlgoVault Governance Period 3
Apr 18, 2022 - Q54. AlgoVault allows you to commit to Algorand Governance via the AlgoFi protocol. Let’s look at what users placed their ALGOs in the AlgoVault and Committed to Governance
Anchoring LUNA
Dec 25, 2021 - The graph below shows the correlation between Anchor liquidations and LUNA price
USDC Transfer Volumes
Apr 14, 2022 - Compare USDC transfer volumes on Algorand, Solana, Ethereum in 2022.
Contractually Obligated
Mar 8, 2022 - Question 162: Based on your analysis for #161, provide the top 20 smart contract addresses that users interact with or the top 2 smart contract addresses per each of the protocols that you previously analyzed. Grand prize-winning submissions will assess both!
Tracking UST on SOL
Feb 15, 2022 - There has been a focus of integrating UST in the SOL ecosystem in 2022. Identify the three most popular applications of UST in SOL DeFi in February. Can you calculate yield generated from these pools? Are "whales" more or less likely to transact in UST than USDC or USDT on SOL (can calculate this through avg value of each coin)? Highlight the 10 largest transactions in terms of UST in February. Are there patterns to the "whale" transactions and wallets?