🌟 James Joseph 4 MGRC

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@aiyadt

KPIs aren’t entirely possible on a privacy preserving payments protocol project’s level, it’s all z2z, how will you evaluate funded team’s impact?

Userbase + Codebase

Userbase

Measuring Shielded Adoption

I wanted to look at some metrics for measuring shielded adoption for a baseline now that some developer tooling is becoming available and there is already a mobile wallet offering shielded tx (Shielded Guarda). This data isn’t particularly easy to get, at least with the granularity I wanted, without some custom scripts. I used BlockSci together with an edited version of a script @str4d created to detect the transaction type. The script I used is here: https://gist.github.com/garethtdavies/5acc0…

To me, the number of Zcash Users is the key metric by which to judge the success of the MGRC. This can be estimated by app downloads, total searches, flows on on- and off- ramps, etc.

We can develop dashboards, to estimate the number of users and their average usage (tx per time, zfa’s, etc) much like the Mr. Davies project above.

We can also leverage techniques achieved at the Zcash Observatory by Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer and Pranav Thirunavukkarasu. zcash-observatory/ at master · insight-decentralized-consensus-lab/zcash-observatory · GitHub (ZF Grant: ZF Grants - Zcash Observatory).

Here’s an example of a data visual MGRC could immediately grant funding towards with clear specifications:

Measuring Shielded Adoption

Ok last idea and then I’m going to go back to my actual job. Figure F: [FigureF] This one is potentially actually implementable, and it avoids both the “partial buckets misrepresented as complete buckets” problem from Figure A as well as the “sketchy linear extrapolation” problems from Figures D and E. Not sure if it would actually be a good and useful representation in practice, compared to Figure B.

Codebase

In addition to Users/Usage, developers enjoy network effects when accessing a clean, reusable codebase that helps them incorporate shielded money and messages to reach more Zcash users.

I am interested in attaching key performance indicators for the growth of features available in our functional codebase, too.