Sparking Joy Through Dune with Elias Simos

This week, we discuss the whole FTX saga -- a timeline for the series of events pertaining to SBF, FTX, Alameda Research, CZ, Binance, and more. Using the FTX saga as our case study, we will go over how to track on-chain activities/flows, balances, and volumes in an open data blockchain environment.

This week, in honor of the ongoing `dex.trades` migration, we will cover the basics of AMM (automated market makers) and offer a starting point on what data analysis we can do with AMM's on-chain data.

"L2s (Arbitrum & Optimism) account for 30-40% of all transactions on Ethereum, but consume only 2% of the total gas..." That is one of the trends mentioned by Tomasz Tungas in his talk at DuneCon regarding The State of Web3 in 2022. This week we explain what Layer 2 is with on-chain data.

This week we will explain what is The Ethereum Merge with on-chain data.

This week we will investigate the liquidity crisis BendDAO had and its implication for the broader NFT market.

In the inaugural session, we investigate the implications of OFAC's decision to sanction addresses related to the tornado.cash protocol.

In this talk, Andrew walks us through his insights into the web3 data economy and its participants. He also shares some advice for Solidity devs that would enable analysts to more easily work with their data. Andrew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewhong5297

Grigori from Lido walks us through Lido's operations with and on Dune. Lido builds liquid staking protocols for blockchains. For more on Lido, please visit https://lido.fi/.

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In this workshop, Ben from Cow Protocol walks us through his Python Dune Client. The client is built on top of the newly launched Dune API and offers expansive features to work with the Dune API internally. The Dune client can be found here: https://github.com/cowprotocol/dune-client Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bh2smith

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Meghan Heintz walks us through Dune's Spellbook infrastructure in this hands-on workshop. To learn more about Spellbook, please consult our documentation: https://dune.com/docs/spellbook/. Meghan's twitter: https://twitter.com/Dot2DotSeurat

The end of Dunecon was marked by an AMA with the two co-founders of Dune, Mats and Fredrik. The AMA was conducted by Mario Gabriele (Founder @ The Generalist). Fredrik and Mats mostly share stories about their journey and give glimpses into the future of Dune. Fredrik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagatec Mat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mewwts Mario's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariogabriele

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Elias shares his web3 journey from being a Dune Wizard working for Coinbase to now launching his own data analytics company focused on validator-level data. Elias' new company is Rated. To learn more please visit https://www.rated.network/. Elias Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliasimos

Fred & Ivan from GitcoinDAO walk us through the gitcoin systems and show us how they utilize Dune to ensure equal access to data for every DAO member. To learn more about gitcoin, visit gitcoin.co Ivan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanmolto

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In this Panel, some of the most famous/notorious Dune Wizards share their web3 journeys, tips on how to get a job, and how to effectively make a name for yourself within the crypto data community. Participants: Boxer, Dune: https://twitter.com/0xBoxer Hildobby, Dragonfly: https://twitter.com/hildobby_ Kofi, 1confirmation: https://twitter.com/0xKofi Chuxin, Optimism: https://twitter.com/chuxin_h

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In this presentation, Tomasz Tunguz from Redpoint Ventures gives us a rundown of the state of the crypto economy. The slides for this presentation and a few accompanying words can be found here: https://tomtunguz.com/state-of-crypto Tomasz' Twitter: https://twitter.com/ttunguz

Danning walks us through the evolution of the decentralised exchange marketplace space and the evolution of its participants over the lifespan of the industry. Danning's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sui414

Austin Adams and Xin Wan from Uniswap Labs walk us through the (un)common phenomena of just-in-time liquidity for Uniswap V3 and present their analysis of the issue at hand using Dune's datasets. This talk is largely based on a recent article released by Austin & Xin that can be found here: https://uniswap.org/blog/jit-liquidity. Austin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AustinAdams10 Xin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/xin__wan

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Richard Chen, GP @1confirmation299, walks us through some of his methodologies in approaching web3 data and shares some of his wisdom and hot takes on the current state of the markets. Richard's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchen8

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Dune's Co-Founder and CTO, Mats Olsen talks about the future roadmap of Dune and announces the Dune API! Dune's API allows you to make any query into an API endpoint in an instance. To learn more about the Dune API, visit https://dune.com/docs/api/. Mats' Twitter: https://twitter.com/mewwts

Dune's Co-Founder and CEO, Fredrik Haga takes us on a short trip down memory lane and explains the rich history both Dune and the Ethereum Ecosystem have in Berlin. Furthermore, Fredrik explains why the global shared backend that underpins all of web3 is a radical change in how businesses are run and how Dune fits into this paradigm change. Fredrik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagaetc

In this final (non-)weekly Wizard Danning and Hildobby interview Dune's very own Wizard Boxer. Boxer will tell the tale of the Dune Community, talk about what makes Dune's Community so special and shed some light on his view of the crypto market and data sphere.

Andrew does Data Science @ Mirror.xyz, gets people web3 data jobs with "web3 data degens" and is in general just a really active contributor to the web3 data space.

Doc manages the data side of Rabbithole.gg and has amazing insights as to how the onboarding of users in crypto is going.

Michael is considered by many to be the best Analyst working on Dune today and is doing amazing stuff day in and day out.

Tom has previously been a PM at Facebook and Instagram, worked for 0x Network and is now a general Partner @ Dragonfly. We'll try to dig Tom's brain about about the history of on-chain data querying and how Tom decides

Richard is one of the greatest Dune Wizards alive and General Partner @ 1confirmation. We talk to him about his views on the industry as is, and where we might be going.

Elias is one of Dune's most prolific users and has made a couple great dashboards that garnered Industry wide attention.

Journey into Crypto Data Science, what she works on today and we talk a whole bunch over what dex aggregators do and how you can measure their success.

How to build a quarterly report with crypto data, what goes into that and how data is leveraged across the industry to find a basis for your decisions.

NFT trends and developments, how to find a footing in the web3 industry and how kofi and 1confirmation think about thesis and frameworks for investing.

NFT marketplaces, advice on how to become a Dune Wizard and building a following using the power of Dune.