@mani on Farcaster: "Last night, I began analyzing ..."

Last night, I began analyzing the Farcaster Pro data (basescan API + Neynar to retrieve user information using the wallet address). Found some interesting insights. I will write about a few, and attach the GitHub repos for anyone who wants to analyze them further. This is the data for the first 24h.

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mani

1195 users with 0 followers, 1289 with 1-10, and 125 with no valid acct(?). Using neynar v2/farcaster/user/bulk-by-address Transactions plateaued after the 10K number hit. Expected, I guess.

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mani

Neynar score distribution for all pro users. Median 0.5, majority in the medium range. Pro != high_quality_users I'd assume. Dunno how the metric is computed. (cc @rish )

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mani

Next is follower counts. Folks with <= 10 followers are about 1/4th of the subscription. I manually went to their FC profiles (random 10 of them) to make sure it's not a bug in the code.

mani

FID vs. score also looked interesting (note: this data is only available for Pro subscribers).

mani

And this was for unknown users. Spiked around 1615 PST. I dont know how this works, am a crypto noob. Is it possible that a bunch of addresses just did the token transaction so that they will get the NFT airdropped? Or a bug with the API? I only tried retrieving info once. @neynar

mani

Link for anyone who want to explore further. Make sure to keep the transaction json file in parent directory, the basescan api only returns last 10k transactions. Reply/DC if you find any bug - I tried to verify the data manually as much as I can. Link:

github.com

GitHub - manimohans/fc_pro_analytics

mani

You can also have fun by dragging and dropping the csv file into your favorite AI. Screenshot from Gemini here.

mjc716

very important. you're like 90% of the way there but i think porting all the data into a filterable google sheet that people can easily download for future airdrops would be huge

mani

I have it on GitHub as a csv (raw.githubusercontent.com/manimohans/f...), but some pointers: - this csv has around ~11.8K subscribers (first 48 hours, not 24h, use an older commit for 24h) - the number of followers for folks @ 48h will be different from 24h. A few 0s moved to 1-10s and so on. I think the neynar scores change weekly so thats probably ok - unless they update scores on a Thursday. Hope this helps.

yxsh23

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

dawufi

heater thread 0 follower gang goes hard

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shilsi

could be that 0 follower accounts are hoping to grow by getting the Pro subscription. reflects how the pay-to-win mindset is baked into our SM realities/expectations at this point.

dawufi

I find that scenario to be highly unlikely Unless you mean the bot owner is trying to get their alts more followers Then maybe I'm sure @geoffgolberg will run some analysis I don't understand to draw some conclusions I don't understand but agree with at some point :)

shilsi

yes, bot owners going for it seems like a plausible explanation. but as you said, eager to see what comes out of @geoffgolberg's analyses. interesting scenario, really.

dawufi

the immediate drop off after NFT order was filled is the canary

katwolfie.eth

@geoffgolberg have you seen this?

fredha.eth

Wdym about high score users you mean neynar score?

basement5k

You’re a real one for providing all the links and repos. That is often heavily overlooked of overly guarded which makes it harder for newer ppl to learn. 100 $degen

ramilmust

Impressive! 300 $degen

marmo.eth

thanks for this work! does this work mean we can conclude that around 50% of the pro NFT and pro memberships are held by bots and/or or farmers of some sort?

spengrah.eth

there have only ~700 pro subscribers once the NFT "sold out"?

luckyjerry

Really cool to see the numbers visualized like this. Appreciate the deep dive! 3000👏🏻

iggy

almost 50% of buyers had 100 or less followers, interesting

freymon.eth

thank you for this man, really appreciate you

vxn

Pretty sure I was one of those under 10 when I got my badge. Gotta brand early and stay xoxo

naiya.eth

What I’ve learned about myself from looking at this data is that I have a high neynar score (~.77) relative to other accounts in my account creation category (above 1 mil) at least in the proaccount data set. This is so fun to look at and study. Thanks for sharing!