Daren Matsuoka Profile picture
engineering / data science @a16zcrypto
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Mar 31, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
When minting NFTs, creators face a number of decisions that can affect the performance of their projects.

I dug into the data to help inform people’s choices. 🧵👇

a16z.com/2022/03/31/nft… I analyzed minting data from the top 150 NFT collections on @opensea. Here are some benchmarks and takeaways that could offer creators some insight.
Mar 18, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Introducing the NFT Analyst Starter Pack. Enter a contract address, and with one command generate CSV extracts for all token transfers, historical sales, and each underlying item’s metadata (w/ calculated rarity scores). Powered by @AlchemyPlatform. 🧵👇

github.com/a16z/nft-analy… Having spent a lot of time down the NFT rabbit hole, it's surprisingly difficult to export even the most basic data associated with a collection (transfers, sales, and metadata).
Jan 19, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
Statistical rarity can be very misleading when it comes to NFT valuations. Why? Because cultural trends are often more powerful. Here’s an example of this you can see in the CryptoPunks data 👇. Out of 10,000 punks, there are exactly 259 that have a “Hoodie” and 212 that have a “Clown Nose”. If you believe that rarity determines value, then clown noses should be priced higher than hoodies - this is provably untrue.
Oct 22, 2021 15 tweets 3 min read
Event logs are one of the most important sources of historical data on Ethereum. Learning how they are structured, and how to access them, is critical for anyone who wants to analyze smart contract interactions. Here’s what I’ve learned. 🧵👇 When smart contracts on Ethereum are invoked, they will often emit event logs that describe what has happened. These logs provide a way to store small amounts of data permanently on the blockchain.
Oct 8, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
The Ethereum developer community is more vibrant than ever. We estimate that more developers have entered the Ethereum ecosystem so far this year than the previous two years combined. 🧵👇 Image We can analyze the growth of Ethereum's developer activity by looking at the GitHub stars on key developer repositories (web3js, truffle, solidity, hardhat, ethersjs, OpenZeppelin contracts, web3py, and scaffold-eth) over time.