Rethinking TON Data Contests for 2026

This year we ran three major analytics contests together with DeDust, EVAA, and Storm Trade.

In the first two cases, the task was to build a complete, production-ready Dune dashboard for the project. Unfortunately, none of the submissions ended up being “ideal,” so the teams ultimately assembled their final dashboard from pieces of multiple entries. For Storm Trade we tried a new format: participants built individual charts, and the winner received a paid follow-up task to assemble the dashboard based on the partner’s technical requirements. Yet even this format didn’t fully produce the dashboard the partner envisioned.

As we plan our 2026 contests, we want to rethink how to make these formats more useful for both participants and business teams.

If you are a potential partner looking for dashboards or analytics, tell us what contest format would actually help you get the result you need. And if you’re a participant, share feedback on what challenges excite you and what kinds of artifacts (dashboards, models, scripts, monitoring tools, datasets, etc.) would be most valuable for the ecosystem.

What’s the ideal contest format we should try next year? Please share