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The Road So Far, Mvmt. I: Validators
Mar 16, 2022 - Question 163: As the bounty program nears its one year anniversary, it's time for a recap. We'll start with a handful of the most important topics in crypto: decentralization, network security, and governance. Review all the Terra submissions to date that discuss validators and delegators. Provide a brief summary of what we have learned so far, via various bounties, about Terra's validator network. Definition: Select at least 3 metrics or charts (your own, or those belonging to past submissions); credit the original source; and update any charts or queries you use to cover the present day.
Validator Pageant
Mar 16, 2022 - Question 164: Select one validator outside the top 10 and make a case for why newcomers to Terra should delegate to that validator. Define any metric of your choosing that marks a good validator (airdrops, voting, community benefits, uptime); assess the average for the full set of ~130 validators (i.e. if you pick airdrops, assess how many of them offer an airdrop); and assess how your chosen validator performs based on that metric.
First Time Deposits at Mango Markets
Feb 20, 2022 - Mango Markets is a decentralized, cross-margin trading platform with lightning speed and near-zero fees because it is natively built on Solana. There is a one time fee of .035 SOL to open a trading account on Mango Markets.
Staking STBL on AlgoFi
Mar 12, 2022 - Question 33: Let's look at how much STBL, Algorand's First Stablecoin, has been staked on AlgoFi. Show the stake vs unstake actions over time Show the total number wallets that have staked over time Show the total amount of STBL staked(make sure to account for amounts that have been unstaked.
Magic Eden vs OpenSea vs Random Earth
Mar 23, 2022 - Q39. Create a dashboard highlighting at least 3 metrics comparing marketplace performance and adoption between Magic Eden on Solana, OpenSea on Ethereum, and Random Earth on Terra since January. What has been the rate of change of these metrics since the start of the new year and are there any signs of growth of a certain marketplace or ecosystem of NFTs? Highlight the 5 most popular NFT collections for each marketplace over that timeframe in terms of sales volume. Is the turnover rate (number of transactions) for collections on Magic Eden noticeably higher than on OpenSea and Random Earth? Provide some insights on these findings.
Around & Around We Go (Circulating Supply)
Feb 23, 2022 - Display the circulating supply of LUNA over the past 3 months. Use on-chain data for your calculation, but you are welcome to reference outside sources to support and validate your answer.
Fractional.art NFT Sales
Apr 27, 2022 - Q16. Fractional is a protocol that allows NFT owners to mint tokenized fractional ownership of their NFT(s). The tokens are ERC20 and function as governance tokens for the vault. Multiple NFTs can be placed in a ‘basket’ that trade with a single token. For more information please see fractional.art.
%Balloonsville Rug Pull%
Feb 20, 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.
veSBR Analysis
Mar 2, 2022 - What was the total supply of veSBR at the end of each of the last two Epochs (4 & 5)? Create a pie chart showing the distribution of veSBR (top 20 wallets) for Epochs 4 & 5. How did these wallets vote? Did they vote for the same gauges? Or did they choose to send SBR rewards to different pools?