Proposal: Artemis Labs and Drift Artemis Page

Simple Summary:

Artemis Labs is set to transform how the crypto community accesses Drift metrics and data via this proposal. By integrating detailed Drift protocol metrics onto Artemis, the whole suite of Artemis users which include top liquid token funds (Panetera, Modular Capital), retail investors, developers, and institutional investors (Grayscale, Vaneck, Franklin Templeton) will be able to access Drift metrics for the first time. Artemis’s commitment to transparency and community engagement, with open-source dashboards and regular updates, ensures that Drift metrics are accessible and audited for the entire crypto community to digest and share however they want.

The proposal is for a grant of $65k USD worth of DRIFT token paid out monthly over the 12month engagement.

Who is Artemis Labs:

Artemis Labs is a software company building the unified platform for all of crypto data. We are in the business of enabling anyone in the crypto space to dive deep on any protocol whether they are familiar with on crypto data or not. With two core products: excel / google sheets plugin and Artemis Terminal, we surface key metrics for a robust set of users including:

  • institutional investors such as Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, and Vaneck
  • liquid token funds such as Modular Capital, Pantera Capital, and CoinFund
  • retail investors with over 20k+ twitter followers and 20k+ subscribers to our weekly newsletter
  • developers from Wave Wallet, Quicknode, and Bridge.xyz

Our team consist of top engineers from companies such as Venmo, Messari, Coinbase, Facebook and top HFs / Investment Firms such as Holocene, Carlyle Group, Blackrock, and Whale Rock. We are a blend of top engineering and traditional finance talent allowing us to build + surface metrics that actually matter to markets.

Company Values:

Our mission is to surface key metrics to anyone that cares about crypto in whatever way is most intuitive to them. Whether its a dashboard, an excel plugin, or an api, we empower retail traders, large liquid token funds, and developers in this space to make informed bets on the market with their capital and time.

  • Transparency: We take transparency very seriously, which is why we took great effort to become open source earlier this year. If there are any metrics the broader crypto community is concerned about, anyone can make a github issue and we will resolve in a timely manner.
  • Build with the community: We are open source and will work directly with Drift Labs and the community to surface metrics that matter to Drift users, developers, investors, and token holders. We have worked with the Drift Lab team to come up with an initial set of metrics that will be valuable to the both the Artemis and Drift community.

Why 3rd Party Verified Data is important:

Open and trusted fundamental metrics are an important tool for everyone in crypto. Developers use it to determine what ecosystem to build on and capital allocators use it to make informed bets on projects. But as the crypto space grows and matures, more people are asking fundamental questions that require deeper metrics to answer. The crypto space is becoming more sophisticated and there isn’t a single go to source for all Drift metrics that matter.

Artemis proposal aims to solve 3 key issues in the space right now:

  • No clear benchmarking of Drift’s Protocol Health
  • No place to get all the metrics of Drift in one place and compare with other perpetual trading protocols
  • No way to start tracking historical changes of Drift Liquidity over time
  • No place to get deeper metrics on drift users such as average deposit size, exchange volume / user, etc.

Artemis will provide to the community:

  • Reliable benchmarking of the Drift Protocols with other protocols
  • Deeper metrics on Drift not just high level numbers like TVL and Exchange Volume
  • Neutral 3rd party verified metrics
  • Wider audience of institutional investors and builders looking at key Drift Metrics

Proposal:

Working with Drift Labs these are the core dashboard Artemis Labs will build out and maintain for the community over the 12 month period.

Deeper Perp Protocol Metrics:

  • Open Interest
  • Fees
  • Revenue
  • Average Fees / Trade
  • Funding Rate (Annualized)

Unique Trader Metrics:

  • Exchange Volume / Trader
  • Unique Number of Traders

Liquidity Metrics:

  • Liquidity metrics by perp market
    • +2% / -2% liquidity
  • Price Fill (effective price of a 100k Order)

Deposit Metrics:

  • Average Deposit Size
  • Deposit Trends
  • Lending Rates

Product Screenshots:




Community Engagement:

Independent Research:

As part of our commitment to being community focused, we will dive deep into the Drift Perps Protocol to highlight key metrics and the project. This will be done in the form of an independent research piece. We will then share this piece with the Artemis community the make up of which was described earlier in the proposal. This research piece will be made publicly available for anyone to read.

Open Source Dashboards:

All of the dashboards and metrics we build for Drift will be open sourced and free for the community to screenshot and used for whatever they need.

Updates:

We will also commit to a bi-monthly update post focusing on both works complete and ongoing as determined by the community.

Longer Term Relationship:

As has been stated above, we are a software company. We’re building a platform that empowers anyone in crypto to make informed discussions with their time and capital. While this engagement is focus on building for the Drift Community and surfacing key metrics for the broader crypto community as it relates to Drift, we hope to continue to onboard more stakeholders in the crypto community to our platform. Our hope is that anyone who wants to do anything in crypto will at some point touch the Artemis platform and suite of products.

Success Criteria:

The successful completion of the Drift protocol’s objectives will be measured against KPIs that will be derived from the specific objectives agreed upon between Drift and Artemis Labs. On top of those, We will also look to measure things such as:

  • Usage:
    • Number of Tweet
    • Page Views
    • Metrics Calls on our plugin
  • Product Deliverables (Drift Metrics on Artemis)

Pricing and timing:

  • 12 month engagement w/ option to cancel engagement after an initial 6 month period
    • the Drift DAO will have the opportunity to terminate the relationship if it finds Artemis Labs’ deliverables unsatisfactory (outlined above).
  • $65k USD value in Drift Tokens paid out linearly over 12 months.
    • Drift token price would be a trailing 7-d average based on coingecko prices
    • So at time of proposal that would be roughly 150,000 tokens distributed out from a multisig where Drift Labs + Artemis Labs will be the signer over a 12 month period.
  • Start of engagement will begin once proposal is passed

Special Thanks

  • Big Z for reviewing and giving feedback!
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Big fan of the Artemis team and their research is well respected across the industry. I think they are a great 3rd party partner that the Drift Foundation should work with to highlight key metrics and data points for the protocol.

I will vote in favour of this.

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great in-depth proposal! just 2 questions that comes to mind

  • roughly how long will the initial dashboard take to be up live?
  • are metrics limited to those specified in this proposal? (aka can we add more metrics in this 12 months?)
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i don’t want to see this “thing” happening

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Wrong reply post, still getting the hang of this. :sweat_smile:

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Hi Devine! Great questions:

  • We estimate it will take 2-3 weeks for most of the metrics, and ~ 1 month for all the metrics mentioned to be live and available on our page. We plan to work with Drift Labs to help prioritize what should go live first.

  • We are open to adding more metrics in the future but will like to finalize the set for the initial proposal. If there is anything you think we should add let us know! For future metrics that come up after this proposal we plan to be an active member of the Drift DAO going forward so anyone can put up another proposal for more metrics and we can review on our side!

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Personally, would like to push more for things the team doesn’t already have documented and wouldn’t have the ability/time to publish. Right now, the only new value add I’m seeing is the liquidity depth metrics, and the team could likely spin those up in a few days. All the other metrics mentioned are currently available in dashboards at places like:

Drift’s own Grafana dashboard
Dune dashboard
Flipside dashboard
TopLedger dashboard
DefiLlama dashboard

While I can agree that aggregating all this data to one place has value, I’d like to see NEW data or things we don’t have already access to in order to justify a $65k spend, not just an aggregation of existing public data.

The other value prop is the institutions mentioned, but I am sure these institutions source data from several venues including some of the ones already linked.

To summarize, I’d like to see a more fleshed out proposal that includes:

  • More detail with examples on data that we can’t already source and why it’s difficult and/or time consuming to source from somewhere else
  • A breakdown of the budget for this endeavor and justification for the amount requested.

As stands, I think it’s possible to work together but the price tag of $65k isn’t quite matching the value prop from my current purview.

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