Round 2 / Network Health Dashboard

Storage providers need to rigorously calculate initial and ongoing costs and/or ROI of onboarding storage on the network. Blockchain analytics teams want to disseminate digestible and accurate metrics to the general public. Product and business development teams in the Filecoin ecosystem need to monitor the uptake of new network initiatives on Filecoin, consequences of network upgrades, etc. Finally, multiple stakeholders involved in the collective governance of Filecoin need access to rigorous information about the network’s trajectory over time in order to make informed decisions about the future directions of the protocol.

All of these needs have a common pain point: each stakeholder depends on the availability of distilled information that is either difficult to access or non-trivial to calculate. Starboard’s Dashboards address these issues by calculating metrics important to our stakeholders from first principles.

Pain points

• Governance team
  • Product and governance teams in the Filecoin ecosystem strongly desire macroscopic metrics about network health and trajectory to make informed decisions
• Research and analytics team
  • Desire fully indexed chain data to conduct research and disseminate important information to the general public Startups
  • Desire availability of on-chain information to make well-informed decisions

Benefits

• By calculating critical network indicators such as deals per day, storage power onboarding over different levels of aggregation, governance teams are able to understand driving factors for changes in the network health and trajectory
• Accurate and distilled information provides both analytics firms and the general public with fresh intuition and insight into Filecoin’s state

During the reporting period, the Network Health Dashboard has continued refreshing its coverage to add new charts tracking Direct Data Onboarding, miner count, data utilisation, and overhauled the calculation logic for many charts including those for sector onboarding.