Mirror Analysis: Week 11 in Review (2024)

📌 Mint this entry and subscribe to Post3 newsletter to get the dataset that powered this analysis delivered to your email inbox.

This entry is part of the series: Mirror Entries Analysis. Each week, Post3 utilizes data extraction and data analysis techniques to deliver insightful reports with information concerning authors, articles, revenue, chains, keywords, and more, derived from exploring Mirror data.

A filter is applied to the extracted data. For instance, entries with one-word titles and bodies with less than 55 words are not considered to minimize the noise and incentivize good writing practices.

On week 11 we tackle the following questions:

1. What are the general statistics?

2. How does the user activity change over the week?

3. Who are the authors from whom people have collected the most?

4. Which entries were the most collected?

5. Which authors/publications generated the most revenue?

6. Which entries generated the most revenue?

7. What was the networks/chains usage?

⚠️ Note: The number of collections/mints of some entries might have changed at the time I’m writing.

Let's begin to analyse 1107 posts collected from week 11.

1 - What are the general statistics?

By analyzing weekly statistics, we can gain insights into user activity and identify any imbalances in collection and revenue distributions. Let's explore the total collected and earned revenue (in USD) along with the average (mean), middle value (median), and spread (standard deviation) of these metrics.

| Features    | Total    | Mean     | Median   | Std      |
| ----------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| Collections | 2392.0   | 2.2      | 0.0      | 19.9     |
| Revenue     | 123578.9 | 114.4    | 0.0      | 2825.4   |

2 - How does the user activity change over the week?

While there are several ways to measure the user activity on Mirror, one that gives us a better understanding of the writers' activity, is by observing the total of articles created per day of the week, along with the number of collections and revenue. By visualizing these three metrics in a single chart, we can identify potential correlations between them.

👉 Join Post3 Discord community here. Follow Post3 on Twitter (aka X) and Warpcaster

3 - Who are the authors/publications from whom people have collected the most?

The number of times an article has been collected/minted serves as a valuable metric to understand an author's popularity on Mirror. The “Author“ is the publication/newsletter, some authors such as protocols and ecosystems have several contributors that write to their publications. Let’s take a look at the ones whose work has attracted more collectors.

Below is the list of the authors/publications with the most collections:

1. Linea

2. Mint Blockchain

3. Pike

4. Linea Ecosystem

5. Taiko Ecosystem

6. Aevo

7. Superform

8. Elys Network

9. Parabol

10. Umoja

11. The Optimism Collective

12. Ethereum Frogs (Efrogs)

13. Ethena Labs

14. Futaba

15. Eclipse

16. Layer3

17. 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 📜

18. GALLERY

19. CryptoFortochka

20. Stateful Works

📌 Mint this entry and subscribe to Post3 newsletter to get the dataset that powered this analysis delivered to your email inbox.

4 - Which entries were the most collected?

Some authors publish several times in a weekly period, which grants them more collections than others. Hence we need to take a look at entries individually, to see which ones performed better. These are the top entries:

1. Ethereum’s EIP-4844 Brings a New Era of Scalability & Lower Gas Fees to Linea

2. Welcome to Mint Forest: Mint Your Tree, Redeem $MINT!

3. Presenting "Ethereum, Evolved: Dencun" - The Celebration NFT to A New Era!

4. Mint, Stake and Play | Taiko x Blazpay

5. AEVO Airdrop

6. The Superform Manifesto

7. The Pike PIU Program is now live!

8. Elys network Odyssey

9. Parabol on Scroll 📜

10. Celebrating Superchain Creativity: Announcing the Winners of "We ❤️The Art"

11. Unveiling the Efrogs Whitelist Tiers: The Frog-mo is coming!

12. Shard Campaign Update: March 11

13. Futaba Modular March Update

14. Umoja Early Adopter Airdrop Campaign: Season 1

15. The Pike PIU Program - Part 2B

16. Eclipse Labs Announces $50M Series A Funding co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC

17. DeFi Revolution on zkSync

18. Elle's Ode to Internet Subcultures

19. Trade like a Degen, Hedge Like a Hedge Fund: Umoja’s Beta is Live

20. Mint "Delivery at Dawn" NFT: The Unmissable Minting Opportunity!

21. Discover Web3 Gaming In Linea Park Week 4: Experience The East!

22. Delivery at Dawn | watch & mint!

23. Ethnographic Insights on Point Systems

24. Introducing Syfy

25. Forgotten Playland: The Next Chapter

26. WE'RE MEME ECOSYTEM

27. Shifting Tides and a New Age of Exploration

28. MIMSwap Migration and the Exclusive Founder Boost

29. Why Farcaster Will Overtake Twitter By Being 10x Better

👉 Join Post3 Discord community here. Follow Post3 on Twitter (aka X) and Warpcaster

5 - Which authors/publications generated the most revenue?

Revenue serves as an indicator of one's ability to attract and retain people to mint their content. Here we’ll take a look at the authors that generated the most revenue from minted entries, and how it correlates with collections.

Below is the list of authors/publications with the most revenue:

1. Bera Inscription 🐻⛓🐰

2. Superform

3. Taiko Ecosystem

4. Linea

5. Mint Blockchain

6. Linea Ecosystem

7. The Optimism Collective

8. Pike

9. Aevo

10. Elys Network

11. Parabol

12. Umoja

13. Ethereum Frogs (Efrogs)

14. Ethena Labs

15. Futaba

16. Polyhedra Network

17. Eclipse

18. Layer3

19. 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 📜

20. CryptoFortochka

6 - Which entries generated the most revenue?

Just as for collections, revenue must be studied individually. People may be loyal to their favourite authors, but in the end, they will mint what they really like or find useful. Studying entries individually is important for writers to understand what kind of content people are willing to mint, and at what price. Below, are the entries with the most revenue:

1. WE'RE MEME ECOSYTEM

2. The Superform Manifesto

3. Mint, Stake and Play | Taiko x Blazpay

4. Ethereum’s EIP-4844 Brings a New Era of Scalability & Lower Gas Fees to Linea

5. Welcome to Mint Forest: Mint Your Tree, Redeem $MINT!

6. Celebrating Superchain Creativity: Announcing the Winners of "We ❤️The Art"

7. Discover Web3 Gaming In Linea Park Week 4: Experience The East!

8. Presenting "Ethereum, Evolved: Dencun" - The Celebration NFT to A New Era!

9. AEVO Airdrop

10. The Pike PIU Program is now live!

11. Elys network Odyssey

12. Parabol on Scroll 📜

13. Unveiling the Efrogs Whitelist Tiers: The Frog-mo is coming!

14. Shard Campaign Update: March 11

15. Futaba Modular March Update

16. Umoja Early Adopter Airdrop Campaign: Season 1

17. The Pike PIU Program - Part 2B

18. zkBridge Update: Support for the Ethereum Dencun Network Upgrade

19. Eclipse Labs Announces $50M Series A Funding co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC

20. DeFi Revolution on zkSync

21. Elle's Ode to Internet Subcultures

22. Trade like a Degen, Hedge Like a Hedge Fund: Umoja’s Beta is Live

23. Berachain Private Round 🐻⛓

24. Mint "Delivery at Dawn" NFT: The Unmissable Minting Opportunity!

25. Delivery at Dawn | watch & mint!

26. Ethnographic Insights on Point Systems

27. Introducing Syfy

28. Forgotten Playland: The Next Chapter

29. Strategies with Validator Nodes - Waku Network

30. Shifting Tides and a New Age of Exploration

7 - What was the networks/chains usage?

Understanding the usage of L2 chains for minting NFT articles, is key for writers to decide which network should they use. The following pie chart only compares the usage, other metrics should be taken into account, such as the type of articles that are being published in each chain and so on.

On week 11, Optimism dominates with 87.3% of network usage. In the second position, we have Zora with 8.6%. The third most used network is Polygon with 2.0%. Followed by Linea with 1.1% and finally Base with 0.9%.

👉 Join Post3 Discord community here. Follow Post3 on Twitter (aka X) and Warpcaster

Accessing week 11 entries dataset

Post3 encourages you to explore the dataset and uncover more gems or generate your own charts and insights. The datasets contain the following features:

• platform: web3 publishing platform.

• title: the title of the article.

• description: a short description of the article.

• body: the full content of the article.

• link: the URL for the article.

• arweave_link: the URL for the Arweave JSON content.

• author: the author/publication.

• contributor_link: the writer of the article.

• date: the date when the article was first published.

• collections: number of mints the article has at the time the data was extracted.

• supply: the maximum number of mints an article can have.

• price: the price of the article in ETH or MATIC depending on the currency feature.

• price_usd: the price in USD.

• currency: either MATIC or ETH, others may join in the future.

• network: the L2 solution used to mint the article.

• revenue: collections times the price in USD.

📌 Mint this entry and subscribe to Post3 newsletter to get the dataset that powered this analysis delivered to your email inbox.