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Bloom Tokenomics Research

Objective We want to see if there are discernable patterns between a project’s tokenomics and their short and medium term outcomes. For projects with a meaningful market capitalization: What was their initial token distribution method? (ICO, airdrop, other?) What was the starting number of tokens? What was the initial price? What was the initial market cap? What was the governance model? Can we link the characteristics to useful outcomes? Market capitalization (24 hours, 1 week, Read more about Bloom Tokenomics Research[…]

Tiering and Dashboarding ETH 2.0 Validator Behavior

1 Introduction As part of the data visualization subdivision of Ethereum Foundation community staking grantees, our research seeks to provide graphical insights into the function and health of the network. Over the last few months, we have worked to update our analysis on the performance of validator nodes which was originally performed on the Medalla testnet. In this article, we will provide an update on the progress, highlighting the work we’ve done both in terms Read more about Tiering and Dashboarding ETH 2.0 Validator Behavior[…]

Exploring Numerai Data via R

Numerai is a crowdsourced hedgefund that hosts tournaments, which attract thousands of data scientists around the world to compete for Numeraire cryptocurrency. The company provides clean, regularized, and obfuscated data, where anyone with expertise in machine learning can freely participate. Other than that, they also include various guides and coding samples to help novice data scientists get started. One way to get the data is simply visit https://numer.ai/. In this article, we will perform exploratory Read more about Exploring Numerai Data via R[…]

Proper Proposers and Skipped Slots: A Ranking and Segmentation Study of Validator Behavior

The release of Ethereum 2.0 will mark the beginning of the largest scale proof-of-work to proof-of-stake migration in the crypto-ecosystem. This transformation will render traditional mining infrastructure outmoded as network security and consensus is facilitated, no longer by miners, but holders of the cryptocurrency who stake a portion of their balances inside of wallets integrated into client node software that interact directly with the blockchain. These stakers will serve as validators, entities economically incentivized to Read more about Proper Proposers and Skipped Slots: A Ranking and Segmentation Study of Validator Behavior[…]