INTRODUCTION

What Is NEAR Protocol (NEAR)?

NEAR Protocol is a layer-one blockchain that was designed as a community-run cloud computing platform and that eliminates some of the limitations that have been bogging competing blockchains, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput and poor interoperability. This provides the ideal environment for DApps and creates a developer and user-friendly platform. For instance, NEAR uses human-readable account names, unlike the cryptographic wallet addresses common to Ethereum. NEAR also introduces unique solutions to scaling problems and has its own consensus mechanism called “Doomslug.”

NEAR Protocol is being built by the NEAR Collective, its community that is updating the initial code and releasing updates to the ecosystem. Its declared goal is to build a platform that is “secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people.”

Flux, a protocol that allows developers to create markets based on assets, commodities, real-world events, and Mintbase, an NFT minting platform are examples of projects being built on NEAR Protocol.

BOUNTY QUESTIONS

t’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.)?

WHAT WE ARE GOING TO ANALYZE

n this article, we are going to take a look at the top dashboards of this tournament that won first to third places. In this article, we picked the governance issue and will review how activity there has changed over the past 90 days.

• It should be noted that to write this article, only the data available in the top dashboards was not enough, and for any part that needed a more detailed analysis, more data was extracted by the author, which helped to better understand the issue.

Main topic are as follows:

1- General Information

2- Top Validators

3- Stakes & Unstakes

4-New stakers

OBSERVATIONS

• There are almost 15,000 stakers in the last three months on the NEAR network.
• On October 13, we can see the highest number of stakers.
• More than 33 k staking transactions have been performed in these three months.
• More than 73 million NEAR tokens have been staked so far, most of which were on August 31st.
• Recently, in October, the number of stakers and staking transactions increased.

OBSERVATIONS

• The Astro platform is the most popular validator in terms of the number of stakers and the number of stakes.
• Linear and Zavodil are in the next ranks.

OBSERVATIONS

• In the last three months, the number of stakers was more than the unstakers, which shows the desire of users to stake their tokens.
• More tokens have been staked in the last three months, almost 60% of all tokens moved have been staked.
• In the last three months, the number of stake transactions was more than the unstaking transactions.
• Most of the stakers have staked less than 1000 tokens while there are very few whales that have staked more than 1 million tokens.
• Most of the stakers, in the last three months, have not yet unstaked their tokens and are stakers.
• Only two percent of all stakers have fully staked their tokens.

FINAL CONCLUSIONS

• There are almost 15,000 stakers in the last three months on the NEAR network.
• On October 13, we can see the highest number of stakers.
• More than 33 k staking transactions have been performed in these three months.
• More than 73 million NEAR tokens have been staked so far, most of which were on August 31st.
• Recently, in October, the number of stakers and staking transactions increased.
• The Astro platform is the most popular validator in terms of the number of stakers and the number of stakes.
• In the last three months, the number of stakers was more than the unstakers, which shows the desire of users to stake their tokens.
• More tokens have been staked in the last three months, almost 60% of all tokens moved have been staked.
• In the last three months, the number of stake transactions was more than the unstaking transactions.
• Most of the stakers have staked less than 1000 tokens while there are very few whales that have staked more than 1 million tokens.
• Most of the stakers, in the last three months, have not yet unstaked their tokens and are stakers.
• Only two percent of all stakers have fully staked their tokens.
• The number of new users of the NEAR network has a general upward trend, but it seems that the upward momentum decreased in October.
• we can see, September 2nd had the highest number of new wallets.

SPECIAL THANKS

Finally, I wanted to thank my colleague pimi1356#9693 for helping me to make this bounty and to get all this information.