Question:

 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).

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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?

Methodology:

• To get the contracts on NEAR, we check the ‘DeployContract’ action on NEAR actions table to get the various transactions and sum it over a period of 90 days (the time period considered)
• For the top 5 contracts, the contracts which have signed the most is taken into consideration

Summary:

We would look into the following:

• Daily Contracts Created
• Cumulative Contracts Created
• Top 5 NEAR contracts

Explanation, Insights & Conclusions:

• As many as 1200+ contracts have been created on a single day on NEAR in the past 90 days
• In all 10k+ contracts have been created in the past 90 days
• The top contracts are- relay.aurora, app.nearcrowd.near, sweat_welcome.near, coin-op and pxt-manager