Add Chainspect to Showcase

[fromaline]

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Showcase addition

• Title: Chainspect
• Description: Chainspect is an independent blockchain analytics platform focused on tracking technical metrics for the most widely used blockchains, including Cardano. We track Real-Time TPS, Max Recorded TPS, Max Theoretical TPS, Block Time, TTF, Governance Model, and Launch Date for 40+ chains, including Cardano.
• Website: https://chainspect.app/
• Source: N/A
• Tags:
  • analytics

[fromaline]

Hey @rphair, Thank you for your feedback and for taking the time to explore our platform. I’d like to address your concerns:

I don't think this project illustrates anything about Cardano from either a development or a user perspective.

Chainspect is an analytics platform that does not emphasize any particular blockchain. We track over 40 blockchains, allowing users to compare them easily. By including Cardano, we offer valuable insights into how it performs against other major blockchains in metrics such as TPS, Block Time, TTF, etc. I believe this comparative analysis is beneficial for the Cardano community.

The home page refers to Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Algorand, and Fantom (with particular emphasis on Ethereum) without the word Cardano appearing even once, even in the images.

That's true! We mention Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana on our chain page as the biggest players in the field while using Ethereum as a neutral example. However, Cardano has a dedicated chain page on Chainspect (https://chainspect.app/chain/cardano) and multiple comparison pages (e.g., https://chainspect.app/compare/cardano-vs-ethereum, https://chainspect.app/compare/cardano-vs-bitcoin).

But I understand your concerns! To better showcase Cardano, I propose the following changes in src/data/showcases.js:

1. Change the website link from https://chainspect.app to https://chainspect.app/chain/cardano. It'll lead directly to the Cardano chain page.
2. Use a screenshot of the Cardano chain page as a preview image to focus on Cardano rather than other networks.

Additionally, we have recently added Cardano to the "Proudly Collaborating With" section on our landing page, ensuring it gets mentioned prominently.

What do you think of these changes? I look forward to your response! Thank you again for your time and consideration 🙏

[rphair]

@fromaline first note that my lack of approval doesn't disqualify your project from being included in the portfolio. There are several other reviewers and only 3 affirmative responses would be necessary in order to confirm the proposed listing.

Since you've pressed for more detail I have to say how unhelpful I think these "blockchain comparative" sites are in general. Metrics like TPS and TVL so far have mainly been used to promote industry media favourites, which pushes the crypto world onto a path towards centralisation and chauvinism.

I would happily support a link to the /cardano page if you had any way — apparently not possible with your model which includes only mainstream features — to offer any detail about information density in transaction flow, smart contract efficiency, and features & design possibilities of Cardano's uncommon eUTxO model and its transaction determinism.

You are comparing Cardano to the world on terms that only serve its entrenched competitors... while the purpose of this site is to emphasise Cardano's distinctive features and teach the community of users and developers to use & contribute to that uniqueness. If you could find a convincing way of doing that, according to the details above, then you would have my full support.

[fromaline]

@rphair, thanks for sharing your thoughts — I understand your points and where they come from!

To be honest, we are getting similar requests for almost every blockchain we integrate into Chainspect 😅 But we are always forced to respectfully disagree and keep our metrics standardized. Otherwise, we end up with a bunch of erroneous data, which can't be understood by an average blockchain user.

In other words, there is always a tradeoff between standardization and creating custom, blockchain-specific metrics, which are not comparable to one another.

Hope it makes sense 🙏