Optimism is a L2 EVM Blockchain using Optimistic rollups as its scaling solution. Optimism's native token, OP, was launched in May of 2022.
Late in 2022, Optimism Foundation approached Flipside, requesting that Flipside contribute to their new Attestation Station. The idea being that users should be able to attest to their on or off chain behaviors to an on-chain contract in a peer-to-peer manner.
In response to this request, Flipside created the Optimist Score as a way to attest to an address' on-chain behaviors. With minimal marketing for this tool, Flipside received over 30,000 attestations. We want to take a look at what motivated this many people to use a very simple attestation tool!
All analysis is reproducible using the R programming language. You'll need (1) an shroomDK API key to copy our SQL queries and extract data from the FlipsideCrypto data app; and (2) renv to get the exact package versions we used.
shroomDK is an R package that accesses the FlipsideCrypto REST API; it is also available for Python. You pass SQL code as a string to our API and get up to 1M rows of data back!
Check out the documentation and get your free API Key today.
renv is a package manager for the R programming language. It ensures analysis is fully reproducible by tracking the exact package versions used in the analysis.
install.packages('renv')
To replicate this analysis please do the following:
- Clone this repo.
- Save your API key into a .txt file as 'api_key.txt' (this exact naming allows the provided .gitignore to ignore your key and keep it off github).
- Open the
op-attestation-researchR Project file in your R IDE (we recommend, RStudio). - Confirm you have renv installed.
- Restore the R environment using
renv::restore()while in theop-attestation-researchR Project. - You can now run
optimist_user.Rmd
If any errors arise, double check you have saved your API key in the expected file name and format.