STIP Data Monitoring and Reporting - Objective 1&2] - Sixdegree - [FINAL]

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Please find below some our feedback to your questions.

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  1. Will dashboard include tracking of ARB spending by project vs their budget?

    • Yes, we confirm we will include ARB spending by project vs their budget
  2. Can grant matching by project be included?

    • Yes, it is listed in our task details
  3. Does the team have any experience in fraud/misuse monitoring?

    • Yes, our team has expertise in fraud and misuse monitoring

    • We have built a scoring system to help Gnosis Safe identify airdrop farmers. Please find information about our case study: User engagement analysis - by Sixdegree and Louis Wang

    • One of our team members has worked in the Gitcoin Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD) group, gaining valuable experience in detecting various fraudulent behaviors within Gitcoin Grant Rounds. This includes identifying airdrop farming, sybil attacks, donation recycling/mid-round grant forwarding, and collusion between grant owners and contributors.

    • We are confident that this experience can be effectively applied to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

  4. Will SP be responsible for chasing up projects for outstanding data/reports?

    • Yes, we will be responsible for chasing projects for outstanding data/reports
  5. Milestone amounts are in gsheet, please add to proposal for clarity.

  • Milestones

    • Milestone 1 (Oct.30, 2023 ~ Nov.24, 2023)

      • Set up the data monitoring and reporting pipeline

      • Accomplish Priority 1: Realtime Fraud Detection / Misuse of Funds

    • Milestone 2(Nov.24, 2023 ~ Dec.24, 2023)

      • Set up the analysis framework

      • Develop methods and algorithms

      • Accomplish Priority 2: Grant/Protocol Data and Impact Analysis

    • Milestone 3(Dec.24, 2023 ~ Jan.19, 2024)

      • Develop a data monitoring website
    • Milestone 4(Jan.19, 2024 ~ April 1, 2024)

      • Finalise the final report
  • Please match the milestone with subclass tasks.

  1. Confirm if there is ongoing maintenance fee for dashboards or 80% is paid upon completion to satisfaction of STIP committee then maintained until end of program.

    • We confirm no ongoing maintenance fee for dashboards.

    • Milestones will be used for payment

  2. Confirm if 80% of weekly reports is paid upon delivery of final report or prorata per report.

    • Yes, we confirm, as discussed in the proposal, we will be paid in four tranches
  3. You have shared a number of good examples of previous work but none seem to be of the scale that this RFP asks for. Can you describe the teams capacity for this quantity of work and share any examples I may have missed that back up the Sixdegree team’s experience to deliver on this?

  4. Scale:

  • We have built 80+ dashboards over the past 12 months, all public on Dune Analytics

All the work is done by the endeavour of our 1 FT within 4 weeks.
2. Team:

  1. Sixdegree will be responsible for developing algorithms and building pipelines

  2. Team achievements

  1. Team members that are fully committed to this project:

    1) Kylin, Data Scientist

     - Key achievements:
    
        - PhD in Statistics
    
        - Research fellow at Sydney University
    
        - Ex- Gitcoin Fraud Detection & Defense
    

    2) Louis, Lead Researcher

     - Key achievements:
    
        - PhD in Laser Physics
    
        - Ex- DeFi researcher at Nethermind / smart contract developer at Connexion
    

    3) Spring, Lead Data Wizards

     - Key achievements:
    
        - 15+ years experience in SQL
    
        - Dune Top 3 wizard https://dune.com/springzhang
    
        - Built 100+ public Dune Dashboards
    

    4) Julyan, Full-stack Developer

     - Key achievements:
    
        - Ex- Senior AI Engineer at SenseTime ($50bn+ listed company)
    
        - Expertise in machine learning and modeling
    
        - Experience in AI x Crypto
    

    5) 0xbi, Senior Data Wizards

     - Key achievements:
    
        - Ex- Senior Data Analyst at DiDi / Filecoin/ Huobi
    
        - Rich experience in data monitoring bot building
    
        - Led multiple research including new breakthrough on airdrop analysis and retention for early airdrop holders
    

    6) 0xetwas, Bd & Research

     - Key achievements:
    
        - 10+ years in finance and quant
    

    7) Analysts

     - We have a number of analysts we work with and we can reach out to support us