Kariba Update - July 2024
Powering Retro Funding 4 and beyond
🌐 Network Intelligence
Our coverage currently includes: 2,385 projects (+10%), 46K open source repos (+23%), and 127M (🔥🔥🔥) smart contracts. The smart contract figure includes “discovered contracts” downstream from project deployers or factory contracts.
In June, there were 10,619 active contributors across these projects — up from 10,396 in May.
You can see live stats here.
🚢 Product Updates
We powered Optimism’s latest Retro Funding round with impact metrics. OSO worked with Optimism’s Citizen House to develop 16 onchain impact metrics and apply them consistently across 230 projects and 6 OP stack chains. Read all about it here.
We launched the OSO Data Exchange, a free public data exchange that in includes every model in the OSO pipeline, raw blocks/transactions/traces across 7 chains in the OP Superchain (OP Mainnet, Base, Frax, Metal, Mode, PGN, Zora), GitHub repo and developer activity, Gitcoin Grants and Passport, OpenRank, Farcaster, and Lens datasets.
There are a number of teams building on top of OSO’s data. Some of the coolest debuts from last month were Pairwise, Retrolist, and RetroPGF Hub which integrated the Optimism impact metrics to surface new insights about projects.
Here are some of the smaller features we shipped last month:
We’ve heard your feedback and we have shipped a new GraphQL API service, built on top of a scalable Clickhouse cluster. This should significantly improve the performance of queries compared to the older API service. See our docs for the new endpoints.
We have new docs on building API crawlers, which will make it much easier to scrape an API and add it as a dataset in our Dagster setup.
Check out #alerts on our Discord server to monitor when there are failures in the data pipeline.
We shipped a new Python library for oss-directory, which mirrors the one we already have for Node.js. This makes it easy to import oss-directory data into your project.
👋 Community Updates
We participated in Octant’s Epoch 4 allocation for public goods, placing in the top five (🎉🎉🎉) out of 30 projects. Check out our mini-dashboard of Octant project metrics by cohort here.
We published our first longitudinal assessment of Optimism Retrofunding and posted our first live dashboard of Protocol Labs & Filecoin ecosystem projects.
We joined forces with Gitcoin, Karma GAP, and Thank ARB on the Cartographer’s Syndicate, a collective building a comprehensive web3 grants registry and data visualizations about active projects.
We’re working with Bytexplorers and OpenRank on a data challenge leveraging P2P reputation graphs. Check out our starter notebooks on Hex and Jupyter, which show you how to use OpenRank on the OSO events models. Details and prizes here.
We attended EthCC in Brussels and had the opportunity to give talks at Arbitrum Community Day, Gitcoin Grants Program Canvas, and the Optimistic Gathering.
Our friends at Open Labels Initiative are making great progress building a standard for labeling EVM addresses. They are both leveraging and enriching OSO data, adding 100s of projects and artifacts to OSS Directory over the past month.
🔜 Coming Up
We’ll be at DWeb camp Aug 7-11, 2024. We will be giving a talk on the latest on OSO, as well as organizing a workshop for public goods funding. Come join us!
We’ll be continuing to host demo days every other Tuesday at 12:30PM Eastern / 9:30AM Pacific in our Discord. Next one is on August 13.
👓 Chart of the Month
Our chart of the month comes from our recent longitudinal analysis of developer activity on Optimism following Retro Funding 3 (RF3), over 6 months ago. We see a 14% growth rate among recipients — and even higher growth among returning projects.
