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Sept. 2022, Vincy Data Source: Footprint Analytics — NFT Market Overview NFT stands for “non-fungible token” — unique, verifiable and immutable proofs of ownership of digital goods. Unlike cryptocurrencies, NFTS are unique and indivisible. I.e. 1 BTC = 0.5 BTC + 0.5 and 1 NFT ≠ 0.5 NFT + 0.5 NFT.NFTs non-fungibility allows them to mark asset classes and numbers. In this way, each asset has its own unique number, and buyers can also prove their ownership of the asset through an NFT. The five m...

Sept. 2022, Thiago Freitas Data Source: Footprint Analytics — Ethereum Blockchain Metrics The Merge changed Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. That means no more mining (computational calculations to solve an algorithm) to generate new blocks with transactions. Instead, the new blocks are proposed by network validators: participants that lock an amount of the network’s token (in this case, ETH) to be eligible to be chosen. NFTs are known for demanding a consi...

Oct. 2022, Vincy Data Source: Footprint Analytics — Explore NFT Collections in Footprint Metadata is the “data of data” — structured data used to provide information about a resource. It can include records of a digital artwork, audio files, photographs, and animations. It identifies resources, evaluates them, and tracks changes in their use. For example, in the case of the Moon Men collection, the metadata is the NFT’s name, photo, description, and other characteristic attributes. In the cas...

daniel@footprint.network October, 2022 Data source: This month, something unexpected happened. Despite persistently grim macroeconomic conditions that have been kryptonite for GameFi volume, user numbers, and token prices, the retention rate of players has swung up for many of the most prominent blockchain titles. Currently, Footprint Analytics tracks short-term GameFi user retention. The platform counts a new user as retained if they interact with the protocol’s smart contracts in the two we...

Q3 2022 Blockchain Security Report**Data source: **https://www.footprint.network/@Beosin/Footprint-Beosin-Q3-Report-Beosin Download the full report: https://beosin.com/resources/Q3_2022_BLOCKCHAIN_SECURITY_REPORT.pdf1 Q3 2022 Blockchain Security OverviewA total of 37 major exploits were monitored, with a total loss of approximately $405 million In the third quarter of 2022, Beosin EagleEye monitored over 37 major attacks in the Web3 space, with total losses of approximately $405 million, down...

Sept. 2022, Mike Antolin Dashboard: Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) Launched in 2018, Luna was initially developed to be the first of Terra’s native tokens. They called it LUNA. Its purpose was to serve as a complementary token to absorb any price fluctuations of the cryptocurrency’s smart contract-based stablecoin, terraUSD (UST). UST would maintain its peg with the US dollar by creating and destroying UST tokens through an algorithm, which has been designed around to maintain its peg at a 1:1 rat...

Oct. 2022, Vincy Data Source: Footprint Analytics — NFT Marketplaces If you want to buy or sell an NFT, you have close to a dozen mainstream options today. To an outsider, they all look the same, with their homepage walls of square cartoon characters. However, there is an evolution underway from standard buy-and-sell marketplace — OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare — to models that try to make NFT trading less expensive through innovative solutions. In this article, we will explain the three main emerg...

Sept. 2022, Thiago Freitas Data Source: dYdX & GMX $ Gains Network Comparison In the financial system, a** perpetual futures contract, also known as a perpetual swap, is a transaction representing an agreement to buy or sell an asset at an unspecified point in the future. It also allows users to trade using margin or leverage **(using borrowed funds). This means that rather than having the capital to trade a large notional value of the underlying asset (say, 500 ETH), users can just deposit a...

October 2022, Thiago Freitas Data Source: Footprint Analytics — Curated NFT MarketPlaces Overview A curated NFT marketplace is one where the access to sell an item is restricted. Only creators that are whitelisted (by being invited by an existing member or accepted by the platform curator) can offer their items there. While this helps build a strong community around the artists on the platform, it also can reduce its outreach to the overall market. In this article, we will cover the features ...

daniel@footprint.network Source: KILLABEARS Collection Dashboard KILLABEARS is an Ethereum PFP NFT collection consisting of 3,333 animated bears launched by Mexican artist Memo Angeles and mobile game studio Umbrella Games in April, 2022. The KILLABEARS collection are the flagship NFTs of the company, which has also released several ancillary collections, under what it calls the “Killaverse”. Despite the collection increasing significantly in terms of ETH value during the summer.About the KIL...

Oct. 9 2022, Daniel Data Source: September 2022 GameFi Report (ENG) After a late-summer rally, the crypto markets pulled back in September, bringing many metrics related to the health of the GameFi industry down with it.The amount of volume passing through GameFi protocols reached historic lowsInvestment still remained sidewayVery few new GameFi projects were launchedOn the other hand, the number of active GameFi users jumped, largely due to arcade app Arc8 on Polygon and, to a lesser extent,...

Sept. 2022, Vincy Data Source: Footprint Analytics — NFT Marketplaces Analysis NFT marketplaces are the gateway to owning digital collectibles, blockchain artwork, in-game NFTs and other types of digital assets. And as the number of NFT owners grows, different kinds of marketplaces have emerged to cater to various ecosystems, use cases and niches. In this article, we’ll go over the 3 main types of marketplaces today.What is an NFT marketplace?An NFT marketplace is a platform that allows users...