⚠️ Note: This week’s report has some faults concerning the number of collections, which should be much higher in Linea for instance. This is due to the web scraping process which should be slightly changed. Everything will be fixed by next week.

This entry is part of the series: Mirror Entries Analysis. Each week, Post3 utilizes data extraction and data analysis techniques to deliver insightful reports with information concerning authors, articles, revenue, chains, keywords, and more, derived from exploring Mirror data.

For Week 7, we tackle the following questions:

• Who are the authors from whom people have collected the most?

• Which entries were the most collected?

• Which authors generated the most revenue?

• Which entries generated the most revenue?

• What was the networks/chains usage?

• Who caught our attention this week?

⚠️ Note: The number of collections/mints of some entries might have changed at the time I’m writing.

Let's begin to analyse 2507 posts collected from Week 7.

The number of times an article has been collected/minted serves as a valuable metric to understand an author's popularity on Mirror. The “Author“ is the publication/newsletter, some authors such as protocols and ecosystems have several contributors that write to their publications. Let’s take a look at the top 10 whose work has attracted more collectors.

Linea, an L2 solution, dominates the chart on week 7, with more than 1150 collections. In 2nd place is Base, Coinbase’s L2 network. Both publications generated a significant amount of revenue. In 3rd place, with more than 400 collections, is Capx. This project is new on Mirror and aims at building a decentralized AI network. This is followed by Forgotten Playland a free-to-play web3 social playground. Aevo is also on this list, a decentralized derivatives exchange, and intergalactic.id a new project on Mirror.

Below is the list of the authors/publications with the most collections on Week 7:

1. Linea

2. Base

3. Capx

4. Forgotten Playland

5. Aevo

6. Mode

7. The Optimism Collective

8. OpenEX

9. intergalactic.id

10. BoldLeonidas

⚠️ Note: Some of the links above, are from the contributors to the publication.

Some authors publish several times in a weekly period, which grants them more collections than others. But we need to take a look at entries individually, to see which ones perform better. These are the top 10 entries:

1. Linea’s Innovative Approach to Real-Time L2 Security via Strategic Partnerships

2. Get onchain with Base @ ETHDenver

3. Capx 2.0

4. Safeguarding the Layer 2 Ecosystem: The Imperative of Security and Threat Prevention

5. Aevo X Pandora: Farm Boost

6. Introducing the Forgotten Playland ($FP) token

7. Enhancing the DeFi Trading Landscape: LogX joins Mode Ecosystem

8. Shutterized Mode Testnet - Navigating Towards Comprehensive MEV Awareness

A piece about security granted Linea more than 800 collections and got first place in the list. Followed by an entry announcing Base’s presence in the ETHDenver event. Capx introduces the project with its first entry on Mirror. In the 5th place, Aevo presents a piece on how to boost the $AEVO airdrop and Forgotten Playland follows in the list with its article introducing the $FP token.

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Revenue serves as an indicator of one's ability to attract and retain people to mint their content. Here we’ll take a look at the top 10 authors that generated the most revenue from minted entries, and how it correlates with collections.

Linea, Base and The Optimism Collective generated the most revenue with some free and other paid entries.

Below is the list of authors/publications with the most revenue:

1. Linea

2. Base

3. The Optimism Collective

4. Capx

5. Forgotten Playland

6. Aevo

7. Mode

8. Stackr Labs

9. Bera Rabbit 404 (🐻⛓🐰)

10. OpenEX

⚠️ Note: Some of the links above, are from the contributors to the publication/newsletter.

Just like in collections, revenue must be studied individually. People might be loyal to their favourite authors, but in the end, they will mint what they really like or find useful. Studying entries individually is important for writers to understand what kind of content people are willing to mint, and at what price. Below, are the top 10 entries with the most revenue:

1. Linea’s Innovative Approach to Real-Time L2 Security via Strategic Partnerships

2. Get onchain with Base @ ETHDenver

3. Introducing the Optimism Collective’s Security Council

4. Capx 2.0

5. Safeguarding the Layer 2 Ecosystem: The Imperative of Security and Threat Prevention

6. Aevo X Pandora: Farm Boost

7. Introducing the Forgotten Playland ($FP) token

8. What everyone* gets wrong about building blockchain apps

Understanding the usage of L2 chains for minting NFT articles, is key for writers to decide which network should they use. The following pie chart only compares the usage, other metrics should be taken into account, such as the type of articles that are being published in each chain and so on.

Optimism dominates with 89.3 % of network usage, followed by Polygon with 4.7 %, Zora with 4.4 %, Base with 1.2 % and finally Linea with 0.4%.

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Post3 looks at several catching titles from the sample gathered and takes a deep read into the content. There’s no particular field that Post3 prioritises, we embrace all topics. Let’s see who caught our attention this week:

1. About creators: We Are So Early.. as Creatives by LGHT

2. PYUSD (PayPal): PayPal’s PYUSD Goes Live On Aave V3 by ETH Daily

3. About Internet: Internet? No Thanks by rm

4. Web3 vs Web2: An introduction to what Web3 and DeFi can bring to the world by Merlin Egalite

5. Investment: From Fool to Who? Few Thoughts on Life and Investing 2023

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There’s no particular order in the entries mentioned before. There is much more interesting content in the dataset, which Post3 delivers to you in the form of data NFT. Let’s see how you can access it in the following topic.

Post3 encourages you to explore the dataset and uncover more gems or generate your own charts and insights. It is available at the Ocean Market, which is a web3 data marketplace brought by the Ocean Protocol.

The dataset contains the following features:

• platform: web3 publishing platform

• title

• description

• body

• recipient_wallet

• link: URL to the piece

• arweave_link: the JSON link

• author

• date: this is the post date

• collections: how many people have minted the entry at the moment the data was extracted

• supply: how many people can mint the entry

• price

• currency

• network: L2 solution to mint the entry

• revenue: collections times the price

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