Analysis as of 2022-09-20 auto-generated using "Code+AI"
Consumer View
We first analyze the consumer view to determine the momentum and awareness amongst people in social media. These days consumers look for everything on the internet and this data trail is a great source of insights. We analyze the chatter on social media, analyze search trends of the consumers & find specific pattern of internet lookups. This analysis serves as a lead indicator for the topic to understand the conversations and feedback better.
Consumer Interest Analysis
We analyze 5 years of search data from 2017-09-24 to 2022-09-11. The analysis was done for global region.

It has trended with a Positive cagr of 88.93%
Singapore, Netherlands, Australia, Puerto Rico, Estonia are the main regions that have shown interest
It has shown 6 peaks as seen in image below

With a peak appearing every 1.40 months

Queries like apy, apy crypto, staking in crypto, staking crypto calculator are top related searches in last 12 months
Their changes over the last 12 months can be seen in image below

Use Case Analysis
Consumers look for crypto staking usage in multiple areas which can be seen below
The image shows a word tree that visualizes the lookups as performed by consumers

beginners, dummies are the top areas that consumers lookup crypto staking for.
Note: Consumers may not type entire keywords and hence you would see some repetitions

Consumers look for crypto staking usage in multiple areas along with certain aspects which can be seen below
The image shows a word tree that visualizes the lookups as performed by consumers. n & n year old suggest queries like product for 5 year old and so on

highest, highest apy, ledger, leverage are the top areas that consumers lookup crypto staking with.
Note: Consumers may not type entire keywords and hence you would see some repetitions

Market View
Having a sense of what consumers are looking for next we shift to the players and consumer engagement with them. We obtain market insights and have a quick competitor analysis. Apps have become integral to customer experience and most companies interact with their customers through apps to enhance customer experience. So, when understanding consumer engagement with a product, analysing the app landscape is an important aspect to gauge the communication effectiveness between a brand and its customers. It also gives indications of features required and issues to be fixed.
Analysis of apps
30 apps are analyzed across 2 categories.
Top 20 categories are shown below.
Finance, Productivity are the top 5 categories seeing app development.

The top trends in App categories are seen below. This gives an indication of where crypto staking is seeing market traction.
Finance, Productivity are the top 5 categories

Top 20 categories basis installs are shown below including new niche areas.
Finance, Productivity are the top 5 categories seeing app installations.

Consumers leave feedback on the app regarding their experience, usage & issues. We identify the different aspects and consumer sentiment around it.
Top 25 aspects and their sentiment are shown below.
Note: Every aspect would have both positive & negative sentiment which is shown in the chart. Green implies positive & red negative. Width of box signifies number of comments.

gemini account, gas fees, customer service, hidden fees, phone number are the top 5 negative categories.
crypto portfolio, portfolio tracker, crypto price, crypto news, price alert are the top 5 positive categories.
Research View
Now that we’ve understood the market and consumer view let us switch gears to understand technology trends. Research agenda is key to understanding the upcoming technologies that are being researched that will have a major influence in this space. We do this by analysing research papers to understand emerging technologies.
Analysis of research papers
We analyze 1334 research papers
Let us take 3 views of what areas are being researched. 1) basis words in the abstract 2) basis topic classification of the papers 3) discipline classification
The top trends basis words are seen below
neural network, machine learning, reinforcement learning, smart contract, deep learning are the top 5 areas

The top trends basis topics are seen below
Heuristics, Evaluation_methods, Market_research, Fields_of_application_of_statistics, Artificial_intelligence are the top 5 areas

Research progresses across multiple disciplines. The top discipline trends are seen below that provides insights on how the topic is evolving.
The top 15 disciplines are:
discipline_1: Cryptography and Security
discipline_2: Machine Learning:Machine Learning
discipline_3: Machine Learning:Artificial Intelligence
discipline_4: Quantum Physics
discipline_5: Machine Learning
discipline_6: Quantum Physics:Cryptography and Security
discipline_7: Computers and Society
discipline_8: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
discipline_9: Machine Learning:Artificial Intelligence:Machine Learning
discipline_10: Cryptography and Security:Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
discipline_11: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
discipline_12: Physics Education
discipline_13: Cryptography and Security:Computer Science and Game Theory
discipline_14: Networking and Internet Architecture
discipline_15: Cryptography and Security:Software Engineering

What are the top cited papers? Next let us analyze papers bases on citations.
Citation of a paper is a key measure of importance of a technology/ concept articluated in a paper. Here we list the titles of top cited papers & show a timeline of the top cited papers.
Cited count: 1086 Title: Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol
Cited count: 1004 Title: PPCoin: Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Currency with Proof-of-Stake
Cited count: 996 Title: SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Cited count: 747 Title: A logic level design methodology for a secure DPA resistant ASIC or FPGA implementation
Cited count: 733 Title: Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO ’96

What are the emerging cited papers? Next let us analyze cited papers bases on recency.
Here we list the titles of top cited papers in last 12 months & show a timeline of the top cited papers adjusted for age.
The chart to the right is the same as previous slide but citations are time adjusted. A growth line indicates an area with increasing research interest
Cited count: 137 Title: A Theory of ICOs: Diversification, Agency, and Information Asymmetry
Cited count: 92 Title: Semen impairment and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in semen after recovery from COVID-19
Cited count: 57 Title: Blockchain Transaction Processing
Cited count: 55 Title: Assessment of blockchain applications in travel and tourism industry
Cited count: 55 Title: Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2020: 40th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2020, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 17–21, 2020, Proceedings, Part III

We then look at application areas of the technology/ use cases. We do this by seeing what it is applied FOR
Consumers look for crypto staking usage in multiple areas which can be seen below
The image shows a word tree that visualizes the use cases as being researched. The applications are typically found to the right of word "FOR"
These use cases are based on most cited papers in history (see papers over years chart to discover timeline)
Note: We donot show entire sentences but you can use the string of keywords to perform a search and find the paper

We then look at recent application areas of the technology/ use cases. We do this by seeing what it is applied FOR recently
Consumers look for crypto staking usage in multiple areas which can be seen below
The image shows a word tree that visualizes the use cases as being researched. The applications are typically found to the right of word "FOR"
These use cases are based on most cited papers in the years 2022.0, 2021.0
Note: We donot show entire sentences but you can use the string of keywords to perform a search and find the paper

Analysis of developer questions
As part of R&D developers build and in the process as questions in developer forums. Let us understand technology trends from this source. This is an alternate way of performing technology competitor analysis using developer platforms.
Developer question filing trends
A total of 6 questions were analyzed.
cryptocurrency, solidity, alpine.js, nft, web3 are the top 5 areas
