Methodology

• Find all the transactions where action_name = 'DeployContract'
• For each transaction find the receiver of that transaction, that receiver is our contract.
• Find the first transaction of each contract, that is when the contract was actually deployed, all the transactions afterwards are updating contracts.
• Once we find all these contracts, then we look at the transactions for each contract, the contract with the most number of transactions is defined as the most popular contract.
• We look at the metrics since the very beginning of data with NEAR.

Number of new smart contracts deployed over time over a time period of your choosing.

• Till date there have been 15K smart contract deployed.
• The highest number of new contracts were deployed in April 2022 where 2.6K contracts were deployed.
• Jan 2022 was the second most popular contract with 1.8K contracts deployed in Jan 2022.
• Overall number of new contracts deployed have been between 1K-2K per month, however after the spike in April 2022, we see that the number of new contracts created has been going down.

What are the top 5 new smart contracts interacted in that period of your choosing?

• We define the popularity as the number of transactions where the contract is the receiver.
• We look at the Top 10 Contracts instead of the Top 5.
• 0xfluxs.near is the most popular contract with 416 transactions, majority of which came in April 2022.
• zaikhanh.near comes in second with most transactions in Oct 2021, after which it did not have any transactions.

Conclusion

• Overall number of new contracts deployed have been between 1K-2K per month, however after the spike in April 2022, we see that the number of new contracts created has been going down.
• Even the Top 10 contracts have been active sporadically, there has not been a contract that has grown with time.