Think & Stake

5 coins with the highest adjusted annualized staking reward. The adjusted reward is the annual reward rate adjusted by the annual dilution of the network. Staking is the process of locking cryptocurrencies to receive rewards while contributing to networks. Data from Staking Rewards.

Interview with Niklas Nikolajsen from Bitcoin Suisse. Niklas Nikolajsen is the Founder and Chairman of Bitcoin Suisse. The services provided to the global institutional and private client base include Prime Brokerage, Custody, Collateralized Lending, Staking, Tokenization, Payments and other related services.

Top staking providers by the amount of assets featured. Data was taken from Staking Rewards. Digital assets exchanges were not added to the list. The most widespread assets among staking providers are Cosmos, Tezos, Iris, Dash, Kava Labs:

Centralization of Stake in PoS — With many different blockchain ecosystems and networks striving for decentralization, POS Bakerz wanted to give a quick overview of their current centralization status.

Top 10 Concentrations Across Key Protocols:

The table below shows the ICON Network’s percentages when it comes to delegation. The current number of P-Reps (validators) of the ICON Network is 100, with an additional 15 candidates listed. The top five validators have a total vote percentage of 44.2%, the top ten a shocking percentage of 59.8%.

When we take a look at the Tezos ecosystem (see table below), we can see that the top five validators have 24.2% of the voting power, the top ten 40.8%. The Tezos ecosystem currently has 429 active bakers.

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Bakers Are Not Protocol Politicians — DAO Baker (an automated baking management system) focusing on the governance element that enables a zero barrier participation layer, and ensures voices from every corner of the Tezos community are registered and heard keeping its augustness. The mission is to make Tezos baking more decentralized with minimal interference from external discretionary entities. If you haven’t read the piece on automated monetary management for baking, it is highly recommended to read their previous article.

Interview with the Nerd: Jay — Cypher Core — Read an interview with Jay Jie, Cypher Core Founder. With him, they went in detail what are the characteristics that differentiate his team from the rest of the set of Cosmos validators, also looking at their background and their contribution to the growth of the Cosmos ecosystem.

IBC working group call — March 12th, 2020 — IBC working group call open to teams and developers interested in the progress and contributing to the protocol.

Generalized Slashing — Slash People, Not Coins — read an article by very talented Sunny Aggarwal.

“If a validator gets slashed, instead of burning their staked deposits, we can seize their deposit and use it to open an assassination market against them!”

Chorus One Podcast — 33 Oasis: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts with Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman. In this podcast episode, Meher and Brendan are joined by Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman, who are part of the Oasis Labs team working in product marketing (Andrew) and engineering (Vishwanath). The four start with a discussion of how Oasis got started and the connection to UC Berkeley. Then, in the first part of the interview, an overview of the Oasis protocol and key target markets follows. The episode discusses how the Oasis privacy protocol works technically and how it compares to other privacy-enhancing solutions. Specifically, Andrew and Vishwanath walk through a voting example and go through other use cases, features of the Oasis blockchain, the project’s go-to-market strategy, as well as the roadmap including the ongoing incentivized testnet “The Quest”. Finally, the four discuss implications of Intel security vulnerabilities and the developer experience of writing privacy-preserving smart contracts.

Smaller Validators Need a Bigger Voice — an article by Chris Remus.

“It’s only through our cooperation that we can amplify our voice to levels that compete with those of the larger validator companies.”

It’s not too late for smaller validator operators to take steps that lead toward a different future. Chris Remus proposes some ideas on how to do that: