The release of Uniswap V2 on May 05, 2020 kickstarted the growth of decentralized finance on Ethereum. It’s key feature enabled users to create trading pools between any ERC20 token, including a long tail of assets that were unavailable on any other exchange at the time. …

Uniswap, the ever popular decentralized exchange, deployed to the Polygon network in Dec 2021. The significance of this release is the combination of the most popular decentralized exchange, Uniswap, now on the most popular sidechain in the Ethereum ecosystem, Polygon. The promise of the Polygon POS network is lower gas…

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my thoughts drift towards the term leadership and what makes one a great leader. Leading by example. Setting the standard by which those around you should conduct themselves. Doing the right thing when no one is looking. Taking the extra step when an…

When I had my first child, the oddest thing to me was that you could inherit this much responsibility with almost no preparation. …

I separate my career as a data analyst into two sections, before and after I learned SQL. To me there is no more fundamental skill for a data analyst to have other than the ability to extract and transform data closest to it’s final form. There are a few key…

A few months back I made a dashboard on Dune Analytics that isolated the 50 most profitable traders on OpenSea and what their purchasing/selling activity was over the past 30 days. https://dune.xyz/mtitus6/NFT-Trader-Stats-Unearthing-Alpha I often use this dashboard when browsing new projects, so I thought I might summarize some of the…

First off, I really appreciate all the feedback and likes related to my post walking through the Optimism dashboard. With all my new found knowledge on querying L2, I ventured off to apply my knowledge to another L2 ecosystem. Currently on Dune there are 3 other options..xDAI, BSC, and Polygon…

The queries for this post can be found here — https://dune.xyz/queries/153902 After spending some time in NFT land, I am thirsty to learn about something new. A hot topic lately has been the release of Ethereum Layer 2 protocols, and I found a very nice dashboard that seems perfect to…

One learning strategy I firmly believe in, is studying other people’s work. As I was browsing Dune, I came across a dashboard that intrigued me, and I just had to understand how it worked. The dashboard was called “ Opensea Top Traders (and Collections they buy)” (https://dune.xyz/bitereum/Opensea-Top-Traders). In particular, I…