Bytexplorers Weekly Quest #1

Explaining the criteria and rewards for participating in the JokeRace quest

The first weekly quest is now open, anyone who has minted a bytepass can join in. If you didn’t mint in time for this week, then you can mint and participate next week.

The quest will run for two weeks at a time, so every other Sunday a quest will end (submissions/votes due at midnight EST).

Don’t know what a bytepass or a quest is? Learn about the Bytexplorers.

As the graphic says, you can submit any kind of data work from any source and covering any blockchain. Here are some examples of work you can submit:

• Queries/dashboards from some public platform (Dune, Flipside, Nansen, etc)

• Charts/analysis from python scripts and notebooks

• Company reports or dashboards (Delphi, Blockworks, Growthepie, L2beat, etc)

• Data models (labels, spellbook tables, defillama adapters, subgraphs)

Submissions are called “discoveries”, and after each week concludes I will vote on the quality of the discovery. You will get feedback in the comments of your submission.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. You can only submit once per race.

2. It is completely fine submitting old work - don’t feel pressured to only submit work you’ve created recently! In fact, I actually highly recommend it to build up your onchain reputation faster.

3. If you submit a discovery and then improve on it in the future, you can resubmit it with the “proposal id” from your first time submitted that work at the top of your submission. The proposal id can be found at the end of the proposal URL, like this one. You will get reward guild tokens in the amount difference between new reward tier and old reward tier.

4. You must follow the format of the example submissions with these fields:

   1. Name: the name of your work

   2. Work: link to your query, chart, script, dashboard, notebook, table model, ml model, etc.

   3. Source: open source or closed source

   4. Date Published: rough date that you shared your work

   5. Methodology: link to any explanations of your work, can be an article, doc, thread, comments inline, video.

   6. References: any technical references or inspirations from other people work that helped you create this

   7. Other Notes: anything else you want to share about this work.

Discovery Quality Criteria

Explorers of trailblazer tier and above will be scoring discoveries by quality, in three parts:

Novelty

• 0 votes if its a copy of something that already exists with no changes

• 1 vote for covering a topic at surface level

• 2 votes for covering a topic in depth

• 3 votes for covering a topic in depth with clear research questions

• 4 votes for covering a topic with easy to follow and highly impactful insights

Completeness

• 0 votes if data logic is incorrect or low effort

• 1 votes for a simple single query/chart

• 2 votes for an in depth single query/chart

• 3 votes for a simple dashboard/report/model

• 4 votes for an in depth dashboard/report/model

Transparency

• 0 votes if closed source and no methodology (explanations)

• 1 vote if clear methodology

• 2 votes if open source

• 3 votes if an article, video, thread, etc was shared publicly.

• 4 votes for a high quality article, video, thread, etc shared publicly.

The votes from each section will be multiplied together, so the formula we get is:

Total Votes = Novelty x Completeness x Transparency

There are three tiers of discovery quality, where the thresholds are:

• Valid Discovery: 2 votes

• Great Discovery: 8 votes

• Superb Discovery: 32 votes

• Exceptional Discovery: 64 votes

The rewards you earn will be 1, 5, 10, and 20 guild tokens respectively - these will be minted straight into your bytepass after the quest concludes.

Your overall vote count will be the median of all votes given to you. So if you get [64, 32, 32] as three votes from three people, then your actual vote score will be 32.

Example Discoveries

Here are examples of what I would submit/vote on for each quality tier:

• Valid Discovery:

  • Submission #1

    • Name: Bitcoin Ordinals by Type

    • Work: query

    • Source: open source

    • Methodology: wrote an article

    • Date Published: 2/20/2023

    • References: ordinal handbook, ordinal article

    • Other Notes: This was when ordinals first came out on bitcoin, and I went through bitcoin opcodes to put together a decoding method.

  • Score: 4 points (1*1*4)

    • Novelty, 1 point

    • Completeness, 1 point

    • Transparency, 4 points

• Great Discovery:

  • Submission #2

    • Name: Solana Validator Summary

    • Work: query

    • Source: open source

    • Methodology: none written

    • Date Published: 12/13/23

    • References: solana compass

    • Other Notes: the difficulty here was in tracking stake account vote and authority delegation, which are two models referenced in the query.

  • Score: 8 points (2*2*2)

    • Novelty, 2 point

    • Completeness, 2 point

    • Transparency, 2 points

• Superb Discovery:

  • Submission #3

    • Name: ERC Overview

    • Work: dashboard

    • Source: open source

    • Methodology: wrote two articles, here and here

    • Date Published: 7/19/2023

    • References: ERC standards

    • Other Notes: the work already existed in other queries across Dune. This just felt like a good way of aggregating it all.

  • Score: 32 points (2*4*4)

    • Novelty, 2 points

    • Completeness, 4 points

    • Transparency, 4 points

🔍 Good luck, and reach out to me if you have any questions.