Community learning is one of the best and most motivating ways to level up. MetricsDAO hosts workshops on data analytics for members and the broader public, and true to our focus on measurable outcomes we follow them up with a survey. Our first workshop was by our esteemed member Hildobby, who gave us an introduction into using Dune Analytics to extract information on NFTs and present them in a snazzy dashboard.If this peeks your interest you can watch the recorded workshop here: https://yout...

Community learning is one of the best and most motivating ways to level up. MetricsDAO hosts workshops on data analytics for members and the broader public, and true to our focus on measurable outcomes we follow them up with a survey. Our first workshop was by our esteemed member Hildobby, who gave us an introduction into using Dune Analytics to extract information on NFTs and present them in a snazzy dashboard.If this peeks your interest you can watch the recorded workshop here: https://yout...

Image from Seasons of ChangeAs a data-driven organization, MetricsDAO strives to learn from best practices that other DAOs are implementing. One of our MARCOM team, rplust, talks about his experiences over at Raid Guild (check them out!), with additional commentary in italics.OverviewRaid Guild (RG) is a Service DAO akin to a project management and dev shop for web3 projects. Their services span from project consultation and one-off product feature developments, to full-on project life cycle ...

Image from Seasons of ChangeAs a data-driven organization, MetricsDAO strives to learn from best practices that other DAOs are implementing. One of our MARCOM team, rplust, talks about his experiences over at Raid Guild (check them out!), with additional commentary in italics.OverviewRaid Guild (RG) is a Service DAO akin to a project management and dev shop for web3 projects. Their services span from project consultation and one-off product feature developments, to full-on project life cycle ...

On a sunny February morning in Vienna, Austria, I hopped on a Discord voice call with Chuxin, located 10 timezones away, to talk about data curation, what makes NEAR special and her journey to become a pod leader and data curator for MetricsDAO.Q: Hi Chuxin, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. Let me ask you a couple of questions regarding the ongoing curation of NEAR protocol blockchain data. What makes NEAR different from say Ethereum, or from Harmony, where you also led the curatio...

On a sunny February morning in Vienna, Austria, I hopped on a Discord voice call with Chuxin, located 10 timezones away, to talk about data curation, what makes NEAR special and her journey to become a pod leader and data curator for MetricsDAO.Q: Hi Chuxin, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. Let me ask you a couple of questions regarding the ongoing curation of NEAR protocol blockchain data. What makes NEAR different from say Ethereum, or from Harmony, where you also led the curatio...

Goal: Enable and incentivize Analysts to solve Challenges.MetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. After curating the blockchain data, sourcing questions, and turning them into Challenges for Analysts, the fourth step is enabling the community to provide results, visualizations, insights etc. to address these specific Challenges. We refer to this as generating “Solutions”. This is where our second experiment comes in....

Goal: Enable and incentivize Analysts to solve Challenges.MetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. After curating the blockchain data, sourcing questions, and turning them into Challenges for Analysts, the fourth step is enabling the community to provide results, visualizations, insights etc. to address these specific Challenges. We refer to this as generating “Solutions”. This is where our second experiment comes in....

Written by @robplust Last month, MetricsDAO released a survey to its members to better understand their skills and talents. The main purpose was to help the DAO better shape its programs and overall direction in the near future. In this blog post, we will go through the survey results and the key takeaways from the main sections.On Crypto/Blockchain ExperienceNearly 60% of respondents have intermediate experience in crypto using several protocolsA little over a quarter are just getting starte...

Written by @robplust Last month, MetricsDAO released a survey to its members to better understand their skills and talents. The main purpose was to help the DAO better shape its programs and overall direction in the near future. In this blog post, we will go through the survey results and the key takeaways from the main sections.On Crypto/Blockchain ExperienceNearly 60% of respondents have intermediate experience in crypto using several protocolsA little over a quarter are just getting starte...

Bounties form a big part of MetricsDAO’s mission to deliver high-quality analytics solutions. As our partners rely on accurate, timely, and informative analytics, it is important that MetricsDAO evaluates bounty submissions according to a specific set of criteria. These are Accuracy & Completeness, Insights, Visualizations, and Definitions. Submissions that get decent scores in these criteria are qualified to receive bounty payouts. Those that get a perfect score are then entitled to the gran...

Bounties form a big part of MetricsDAO’s mission to deliver high-quality analytics solutions. As our partners rely on accurate, timely, and informative analytics, it is important that MetricsDAO evaluates bounty submissions according to a specific set of criteria. These are Accuracy & Completeness, Insights, Visualizations, and Definitions. Submissions that get decent scores in these criteria are qualified to receive bounty payouts. Those that get a perfect score are then entitled to the gran...

Inspired by Orca Protocol’s blog post on Pods, this article lays out the pod structure that MetricsDAO is following, and the ways in which you can get involved!VisionWe launched MetricsDAO in October 2021 with the vision to create an organized, automated and scalable process that would enable and reward crypto analysts to deliver on-chain analytics in near-real time. Through our framework, blockchains and all ecosystem participants will have the data, insights, visualizations and metrics that...

Inspired by Orca Protocol’s blog post on Pods, this article lays out the pod structure that MetricsDAO is following, and the ways in which you can get involved!VisionWe launched MetricsDAO in October 2021 with the vision to create an organized, automated and scalable process that would enable and reward crypto analysts to deliver on-chain analytics in near-real time. Through our framework, blockchains and all ecosystem participants will have the data, insights, visualizations and metrics that...

Goal: Qualify submissions in terms of quality and veracity. MetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. QA for Solutions is the 5th step, which we experimented with for the first time with OlympusDAO. Here’s how we did it, what we learned and how we plan to improve!Set UpTimeline: We gave ourselves a week to review and grade the 11 OlympusDAO submissions based on a predefined rubric. Reviewers: After putting the word out...

Goal: Qualify submissions in terms of quality and veracity. MetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. QA for Solutions is the 5th step, which we experimented with for the first time with OlympusDAO. Here’s how we did it, what we learned and how we plan to improve!Set UpTimeline: We gave ourselves a week to review and grade the 11 OlympusDAO submissions based on a predefined rubric. Reviewers: After putting the word out...

For the most part, questions and challenges related to bounty programs are released in one-go, with mostly the same deadline across the board. This is regardless of the questions’ difficulty level and complexity. While this style of release is still able to generate good submissions and community engagement, we see some problems that come with it. Firstly, some bounty questions around the protocol or blockchain involved are left unanswered given the time constraints and the difficulty level. ...

For the most part, questions and challenges related to bounty programs are released in one-go, with mostly the same deadline across the board. This is regardless of the questions’ difficulty level and complexity. While this style of release is still able to generate good submissions and community engagement, we see some problems that come with it. Firstly, some bounty questions around the protocol or blockchain involved are left unanswered given the time constraints and the difficulty level. ...

Goal: To generate a high volume of diverse and interesting questions for the Convex PodSet UpMetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. We ran a workshop that we announced on Twitter and the MetricsDAO Discord server and chose a moderator to facilitate the session. The session itself had a twenty-minute brainstorming session. Participants could submit as many questions as possible. They could come with questions prepare...

Goal: To generate a high volume of diverse and interesting questions for the Convex PodSet UpMetricsDAO provides a 6 step process for ​​Organized, On-Demand Analytics Delivery, or as we like to call it, OODAD. We ran a workshop that we announced on Twitter and the MetricsDAO Discord server and chose a moderator to facilitate the session. The session itself had a twenty-minute brainstorming session. Participants could submit as many questions as possible. They could come with questions prepare...

I interviewed Anton last Friday, 28 January 22, and we spoke about his approach to analyzing DFK (DeFi Kingdom data). Anton made the 5th place on Harmony’s DFK Transaction Tracker Bounty! 🎉 Here’s a link to his amazing dashboard: Defi Kingdoms Report Generator — Anton Yip (dfk-report.vercel.app). And link to the bounty: Defi Kingdoms (harmony.one) Q: Hi Anton! Thanks for taking the time to chat and congrats to your price. You chose Node.js to build the dashboard and a backend to query the Sn...

I interviewed Anton last Friday, 28 January 22, and we spoke about his approach to analyzing DFK (DeFi Kingdom data). Anton made the 5th place on Harmony’s DFK Transaction Tracker Bounty! 🎉 Here’s a link to his amazing dashboard: Defi Kingdoms Report Generator — Anton Yip (dfk-report.vercel.app). And link to the bounty: Defi Kingdoms (harmony.one) Q: Hi Anton! Thanks for taking the time to chat and congrats to your price. You chose Node.js to build the dashboard and a backend to query the Sn...

MetricsDAO member Kakamora (Discord: kakamora#2549) created a beautiful dashboard to illustrate staking user growth. We talked about his process and how it all came together.Q: How long did it take for you to create your dashboard? Kakamora (K): 8 hours or so starting from analysis to completing the bounty. Q: What tools from Flipside, Dune and MetricsDAO did you use? K: I used Velocity from Flipside and Zoho Analytics for the charts. Q: Were you part of the data curation team? K: No, I was n...

MetricsDAO member Kakamora (Discord: kakamora#2549) created a beautiful dashboard to illustrate staking user growth. We talked about his process and how it all came together.Q: How long did it take for you to create your dashboard? Kakamora (K): 8 hours or so starting from analysis to completing the bounty. Q: What tools from Flipside, Dune and MetricsDAO did you use? K: I used Velocity from Flipside and Zoho Analytics for the charts. Q: Were you part of the data curation team? K: No, I was n...