The objective of this challenge is to generate a brief report on scam-related activities associated with various cryptocurrency projects. The report should include the following sections:
- Entity Name (name of the project you chose)
- Entity Type:
Cryptocurrency Exchange,Token,Wallet,Blockchain,Lending Platform, orStablecoin. - Top 2 scams related to the project - either the project's direct involvement in a scam or its exploitation by malicious actors:
- Date (at least month and year)
- Description of the incident
- Collect a minimum of 500 Google News mentions of this entity over a minimum one-month period, encompassing the period from 2022 to 2023. Create visualizations illustrating descriptive statistics, specifically highlighting the number of these mentions associated with scams compared to all mentions.
- For each submission, please follow the report structure provided in the Example.md.
- Feel free to add more visualizations than provided in the example file. And feel free to use other types of visualizations to convey your main points as well.
- Use the following naming convention for the .md files that you submit: Name-of-the-crypto-project.md
- When you describe the scam incidents, please refer to the numbers and facts. Refrain from generic words like "substantial loss".
- A report with the structure described above
- CSV-file with Google news mentions of the following structure:
| timestamp | article_title | text | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| YYYY-mm-dd |
To participate, submit a pull request with the report you generated (.md file) to the challenge repo. Please also email your pull request link along with the CSV-file you collected, your resume and the link to this challenge to challenge-submission@blockshop.org.