Greetings,
When we first launched CARBON Copy just over two years ago, our primary goal was to tell the ReFi story through feature articles, interviews, reports, and news recaps. We had identified the lack of a cohesive narrative in the space, and this was our way of filling the void. 42 features, 7 interviews, 3 reports, and dozens of news recaps later, we think we did a pretty good job covering the topics that matter.
At the same time, we always knew that data was the future. If ReFi couldn't prove its worth to the world, we surmised, it ran the risk of becoming yet another over-hyped Web3 invention. And so, we began collecting as much of the new oil as we could. Projects, news, media coverage, fundraising, impact, activity, builders, opportunities, events, knowledge, tokens, and more. We launched a ReFi project database to provide access to this data. Each project had its own profile page, each category its own summary page. It was, we thought, something the space really needed.
In truth, the project database and profile pages weren't nearly as popular as we had hoped. Traffic was still primarily driven by articles from Trinity Morphy, Tereza Bizkova, Louise Borreani, and Pat Rawson, and our industry reports.
What did prove a lot more popular was the beta version of our impact dashboard. It was built on the notion that the impact made by the average ReFi project alone was but a drop in the bucket. What the space really needed was the quantification of its collective impact. With that in mind, we set about determining relevant metrics, sourcing the project impact data, and wiring it up to a dashboard. For the first time that we know of, the ReFi space had the beginnings of the data aggregation seen on sites like DeFi Llama and L2Beat.
We eventually ran into a dilemma, however: how could the content and data coexist on the same site? Or, more specifically, which one should take precedent?
Once we understood that the data should lead and the content should support, we put our heads down and started building a new version of CARBON Copy with data as the star.
Here's a sneak peek:
We're really excited about how it's all come together over the past few months. Stay tuned for the launch announcement this coming week!
More details on what to expect from this new version will come your way following the launch.
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