ON-387: Rebooting OurNetwork 🌱

📍 Note from the Editor:

After a short hiatus, I am excited to announce that OurNetwork is resuming operations and has no plans to shut down.

Next Friday we are kicking things back off with a deep dive on the current state of the Ethereum ecosystem. The analysis will of course be supported by actual onchain data, not the same tired narratives you keep seeing on bear market Crypto Twitter/X.

We’re also proud to be collaborating with ETHGlobal on this issue, who will provide developer-centric stats to complement our onchain analysis and paint a fuller picture on Ethereum’s overall network health.

For those of you who might not be familiar with ETHGlobal, they are the grassroots organization behind some of crypto’s best developer hackathons across the globe, which often feature lucrative prizes for attendees. I’m thankful for their partnership, so I want to make sure I plug their next event, ETHConf, coming up in June — click here for more info.

I also wanted to share a bit more on where OurNetwork is headed.

On schedule: we are moving to a fully ad hoc publishing cadence until further notice. That means no fixed day, no fixed frequency — we’ll publish when we have something worth saying. We’ll do our best to give you a heads up in advance, but that won’t always be possible. If you want to make sure you don’t miss anything, the safest move is to make sure our emails aren’t going to your spam folder.

On content: I have been giving a ton of thought to how the crypto analytics landscape has so fundamentally changed since we first launched in 2019, back when it was non-trivial for even data scientists to pull down accurate onchain data sets and produce data-driven research that was legible to our readership. Now, with so many crypto analytics providers offering free onchain APIs — combined with the recent rapid advancement in AI tooling — this type of content has never been easier to produce.

Our readers can get that from dozens of places. So we need to do something different. I think that means leaning harder into commentary, curation, and bigger-picture thinking — the kind of analysis that doesn’t just tell you what happened onchain, but what it means and where it’s going. I don’t have all the answers on exactly what that looks like yet, but we’ll be trying new things as we go and I’m excited about the direction.

More soon. See you next Friday.

— Spencer