How Glint is pioneering collaborative intelligence through fair value distribution.
The value extraction crisis in onchain analytics
Imagine spending months uncovering critical onchain insights that drive millions in trading volume, only to watch others reap all the rewards. This is just one example of countless analysts creating massive value without capturing any of it. The more value they create, the less they capture. A contradiction that defies Web3's core principles.
Analytics platforms have reached significant valuations, with Dune alone reaching $1B, built entirely on analyst-created value. From market intelligence that drives trading strategies to deep protocol analysis that informs investment decisions, analysts generate critical insights yet receive zero economic benefit from their work.
Current compensation models fundamentally fail analysts. Bounties provide only short-term rewards. Platform recognition doesn't pay bills. Meanwhile, sophisticated analysis requiring deep technical expertise and market understanding gets treated as mere content.
The disconnect between value creation and capture runs deeper than just dashboard creation, as market-moving insights, trading algorithms derived from onchain analysis, and critical protocol assessments all generate immense value for the ecosystem. For example, investment firms can build strategies based on the work of analysts, while projects make crucial decisions based on their findings. Yet the analysts behind these contributions remain unrewarded.
This systemic misalignment also impacts the entire blockchain analytics space. Without proper incentives or ways to capture value from their work, the quality and quantity of analytical contributions becomes lower. The result is a significant loss of vital intelligence that could drive innovation and growth in Web3 data.
Solana's explosive growth - producing 41% of Ethereum L1's fees and outpacing leading L2s - creates an opportunity to establish a new model. Rather than replicating extractive systems, we can build an analytics economy that properly values intelligence from day one.
The great value shift. When analytics finally rewards its creators.
Glint transforms analytics from platform content into owned assets through a comprehensive token economy. The $GLNT token directly connects value creation and capture, replacing platform extraction with creator rewards.
IP-NFTs form the foundation of creator ownership. When analysts publish dashboards on Glint, they mint digital assets that generate ongoing revenue. These NFTs capture value from usage fees, subscription access, and ecosystem integrations. Analysts maintain perpetual ownership of their work while enabling others to build upon it.
Revenue distribution operates automatically through smart contracts with pro-user rates, API access charges, and integration payments flowing directly to the creators whose work generates that value. A portion supports platform development through the treasury, but most returns to analysts, creating immediate rewards for quality work while building long-term value streams.
The system adapts to usage and impact as heavily used dashboards generate more revenue for their creators. Popular insights attract more integration fees, and valuable analysis compounds returns over time. This dynamic model ensures compensation scales with contribution.
All this transformation extends beyond individual dashboard value. Analysts invest in deeper research when they know they'll capture fair value from their work. They explore complex patterns others miss and build sophisticated models that generate more valuable insights, benefiting the entire ecosystem with this unleashed analytical potential.
By design, the token model recognizes the compounding nature of analytical insights because initial analysis often reveals patterns that spawn valuable follow-up research. In traditional models, this value accrues solely to platforms. Glint ensures that as insights build upon insights, value continues flowing to the original creators while rewarding new contributions.
Building Collective Intelligence Through Value Sharing
Glint's ecosystem transforms individual insights into collective intelligence without sacrificing creator ownership—the merit-based framework measures and rewards both direct contribution and ecosystem impact. When analysts build on existing work, both original creators and new contributors capture value.
Community curation plays a vital role in surfacing valuable insights as users validate and build upon specific dashboards, increasing visibility and usage. Such engagement drives more revenue to creators while helping users find proven analytics, allowing the platform to reward creation and curation activities.
Knowledge sharing amplifies value in our model when analysts build upon existing dashboards or improve data validation, ensuring all participants benefit. The approach aligns with our gamified reward system, in which quality contributions simultaneously increase platform value and generate returns. The result is an ecosystem where collaboration directly enhances earning potential.
This model particularly benefits Solana's growing ecosystem since the demand for quality analytics increases as more developers and projects launch on the network. Glint's collaborative framework ensures this demand translates into analyst earnings. Early contributors capture increasing value as the ecosystem expands.
Network Effects Reimagined: When Growth Rewards Everyone
Value compounds fundamentally differently in Glint's model compared to traditional platforms. While centralized models capture increasing returns for themselves as they expand, our growth mechanics ensure value flows back to creators. Each new pro user subscription generates direct revenue for dashboard creators, every API integration produces ongoing returns for the analysts who built those insights, and ecosystem expansion directly benefits those who effectively collaborate.
Such dynamics create genuine network effects for creators. More users generate increased dashboard revenue, more projects create integration opportunities, and more analysts enhance collaboration potential. Growth directly translates to increased earnings for those who power the ecosystem with their insights
Our freemium offering accelerates this growth while preserving value capture potential. Free access to core features drives broad adoption, alongside pro features that generate sustainable revenue streams and strengthen the reward pool with each paying user. With platform expansion, early contributors see their dashboards generate increasing returns.
Unlike traditional network effects that benefit only platform owners, Glint's growth compounds value for the entire ecosystem. Each new analyst adds unique insights, each new user increases dashboard value, and each new integration expands revenue opportunities, creating a positive feedback loop where growth accelerates growth. At the same time, ensuring creators capture their fair share of value.
Glint’s value cycle becomes self-reinforcing as quality insights attract more users and generate more rewards. Better rewards attract more analysts who create better insights while pro users gain deeper analytics capabilities, driving more platform revenue. Each participant's success amplifies opportunities for others.
The Future of Onchain Analytics
Glint fundamentally changes how analysts monetize their work. Instead of building audiences on traditional platforms, analysts capture real economic value from their contributions, transforming blockchain analytics into actual value creation—a shift that redefines the entire field.
We're starting with Solana at a crucial moment when the network's rapid adoption creates unprecedented demand for quality analytics. The timing presents a unique opportunity: instead of retrofitting fair value distribution onto an existing system, we're building the foundation of Solana's analytics ecosystem.
A realignment of incentives drives the entire industry forward. Better compensation attracts more skilled analysts. Higher-quality insights drive ecosystem growth, and for the first time, creating value in analytics means capturing value.
Create. Own. Thrive.
For analysts, the platform will transform expertise into assets. You’ll be able to create dashboards that generate revenue, earn from pro-user subscriptions, and establish a sustainable income stream from your analytics work.
For developers, the infrastructure will power Web3 applications. With access to processed Solana data and integration capabilities through APIs, it will reward technical contributions and support innovative builds.
For Solana projects, insights will become more accessible and actionable. Teams will track protocol performance, understand user behavior, and showcase metrics through professional dashboards that drive informed decisions.
For KOLs, data insights will become directly monetizable. Valuable analysis shared with your community will generate earnings through dashboard embeddings and increase revenue with high-quality content.
For traders, access to institution-grade analytics from independent creators will redefine decision-making. Following top analysts and accessing premium insights will be part of a rewarding ecosystem for valuable contributions.
Join us in building an analytics economy where value flows to those who create it.
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