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NEAR - 11. Insight of the Week
Feb 6, 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. If you're stumped, don't worry - we'll be running this type of bounty again in the future, so feel free to use this as a "test case" to begin thinking creatively and searching out clever insights.
The Law Offices of NEAR
Aug 3, 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 overtime over a time period of your choosing. What are the top 5 new smart contracts that interacted with in that period of your choosing?
FLOW User Retention vs Other Chains
Dec 19, 2022 - How sticky are the users on Flow? Create a detailed analysis comparing user retention on Flow vs. other L1 chains like Ethereum and Solana. How often do users who make a transaction come back and make another transaction one month later? How do monthly active users compare between chains? Bonus: add a section of your analysis comparing retention specifically with regard to NFT purchases. How often do users who purchase an NFT come back and make another purchase one month later? BONUS: Post your dashboard on Twitter and tag @flipsidecrypto and any relevant accounts!
Seasons in the City [NEAR - The Rainbow Bridge Review]
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.)?
NEAR City Layout
Nov 10, 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?
Tourist Journeys [NEAR]
Oct 27, 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.
District Deep Dive: Contracts Deployed [NEAR Protocol]
Sep 28, 2022 - Building on work from The Law Offices of NEAR, provide an updated view of contracts deployed over time on NEAR. What factors do you think might influence the number of contracts deployed? How might NEAR boost the number of developers and deployments within its ecosystem?
Open Analytics Vol. II: Environmental Impact Study [NEAR]
Oct 6, 2022 - Recently, we analyzed SWEAT - one of the premier projects on NEAR. Do a deep dive into another project on NEAR and analyze its impact, defining metrics for “impact” and displaying them with data. What contributions is your chosen project making to NEAR? You don’t need to choose one of the biggest or most impactful projects - and your research can include qualitative assessment as well. A brief overview of your chosen project will suffice; focus your power on answering the question: "What impact is this project having on NEAR? How much is it contributing, and how do you know?
City Amidst the Storm [NEAR]
Nov 17, 2022 - Provide a thoughtful analysis of how NEAR is weathering the market turbulence that occurred as a result of FTX’ insolvency. You can include baseline measures, e.g. token price, transaction volume - but go beyond that and apply your analysis skills. Choose and define at least 2 measures of ecosystem health, and assess how NEAR is performing on those metrics between the week of 11/7 and 11/14.Grand prize winners will also compare NEAR to at least one other Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem (Solana, Algorand, Flow, etc.), using the 2 measures provided. The goal is to gain a better understanding of how both NEAR and other ecosystems respond to market conditions that heavily affect one of their peers (in this case, Solana).