About the Bounty

Where do they stand today?

• Dev growth: How have their developer ecosystems grown? How easy is it for new developers to get started shipping? What global community efforts have they undertaken, are they effective? What is the best estimate of the current number of active developers and their growth over time? (explain your methodology with links to public sources and state assumptions)
• Project adoption & growth: Are projects actually being built on it? How many? Please qualify the stage of development and usage metrics (announcements are great but they are not projects). The classification/hierarchy should be along the lines of
• products on main-net with actual users that anyone can use
• products on main-net in closed beta
• products on test/dev net

Please include public estimates of actual user counts from sources like dApp Radar or equivalent. Be mindful of separating vanilla signing/voting messages from actual user actions.

• Geographic growth: Which geographies have they focussed their efforts on, and which ones have they missed out on? What is their geographical stronghold? What is their launch strategy for these new markets?
• Unique use cases: Is the L1 focussed on any particular kinds of use cases? What use cases are they ideally best suited for? Are they leveraging some of these strengths properly? Is there some technical innovation/differentiation/trade-off that
• Wins/fails in the last 1 year: How would you analyse their performance overall in the last 1 year? What are the hits and misses?
• List of suggestions for each: What would be your top recommendations to them across each of the aspects researched?

Rewards

• $1500 USDC
• Syndication in our newsletter and social media
• Winners get an opportunity to contribute to an extended report ($3000 opportunity)
• You’ll be added as a Member in Superteam

• $300 USDC
• You’ll be added as a Contributor in Superteam

• $200 USDC
• You’ll be added as a Contributor in Superteam

Evaluation Criteria

• Depth
• Did you explore the background of the topic?
• Does your essay talk about the key features of the domain/industry?
• Is your essay the one-stop resource for people to get up to speed with this topic?
• Did you learn everything there is to know about the topic?

• Writing Style
• Did you write a compelling introduction and a satisfying conclusion?
• Is your writing easy and fun to read?
• Did you avoid overly complex jargon?
• Did you explain concepts in a way a person new to crypto could understand?

• Submission Requirements
• Did you write your essay in English?
• Is your submission at least 1,500 words? Note that typical bounty winners are ~2,000 words.
• Did you submit it before the deadline? Note: there will be no deadline extensions.
• Did you include links to your sources under the title “References”? If you have used external sources and no references are included, your bounty could be rejected on grounds of plagiarism.
• Kindly test your submission for plagiarism. If the submission contains more than 5% plagiarised content, your submission will be rejected. Regular offenders can also be disqualified from participating in the bounty program going forward.
• Share your submission on Twitter & tag @superteamdao and use the hashtag #Superteambounty and submit this link in your bounty application.

Resources

• ⭐ Superteam’s guidelines on how to write a great deep dive essay
• Bounty Program FAQ
• For any questions, DM @Abbasshaikh42 on Twitter or @abbas in our Discord