Introduction:

As mentioned in the question, the minting analysis of NFTs on Solana blockchain is investigated in this dashboard. Also, the bounty aims to find the impact of Metaplex's Candy Machine on total minting NFTs of Solana.

To fulfill this objectives, the total mints in Solana blockchain over the past week is estimated. Also, the weekly mints on Solana from the beginning of December, 2021 is analyzed. As an important part of NFT creation and mint, the unique purchasers over that time period are estimated, too.

In the final part, the role of Metaplex's Candy Machine in minting NFTs on Solana blockchain is identified by numbers.

The addresses of Metaplex's Candy Machine are ('cndy3Z4yapfJBmL3ShUp5exZKqR3z33thTzeNMm2gRZ','cndyAnrLdpjq1Ssp1z8xxDsB8dxe7u4HL5Nxi2K5WXZ')

The total mints on Solana blockchain over the past week is 244100. The weekly minting from the Dec is shown in this bar chart. As shown in this chart, on week that connected Jan 17 to 24 the maximum number of mints happened which is over 475000 mints per week. After that the weekly mints decreased in comparison with before that date.

The weekly number of unique purchasers are demonstrated in the bar chart. Based on this chart, on the second half of Jan, 2022 the weekly number of unique purchasers got their max with near 100000 purchasers.

For more analysis, the cumulative number of unique purchasers since Dec is shown in this figure. The mentioned jump is shown in this figure too. But generally the rate of increase for unique purchasers is constant.

As mentioned, one the objectives of this bounty is to find the impact of Metaplex's Candy Machine in NFT mints. The results related to this objective are shown in this figures. As shown in this figures, the share of Metaplex's Candy Machine in NFT minting is about 74% of total mints. Also, the share of unique purchasers in Metaplex's Candy Machine is about 64% of all purchasers