State of Stake vol. 43

State of Stake vol. 43

Paradigm’s biweekly update on Proof-of-Stake ecosystem, 5th February — 17th February

TL;DR Ethereum 2.0 updates Tezos Edo major upgrade The Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge (AEB) is live Cosmos Stargate tomorrow on February 18th IRISnet Mainnet 1.0 upgrade is expected to happen on February 25th Secret’s first AMM, SecretSwap, launches on mainnet today, on February 17th Bluzelle to launch incentivised liquidity pool on Uniswap Injective’s Equinox staking: public validator onboarding begins COTI Staking 3.0 application is now open Matic Network has rebranded to Polygon The Graph is launching on Polygon Synthetix raises $12 million Oasis Network milestones Celo introduced Valora Binance joins ICON P-Rep ‘Top 10 Staking Networks launching in 2021’ by Staking Rewards And more! Global Market Overview

The current Staking Market Cap (valuation of all projects that have a staking mechanism) is now about $364.2 billion while two weeks ago it was $308.1 billion USD.

Over the last two weeks, POS Dominance decreased from 64.6% to 61.6%.

Now, the leading projects by locked in staking are Polkadot, Cardano, Avalanche, Algorand, Ethereum, Cosmos, Tezos, and Synthetix.

Current Value in Staking by Asset Source: stakingrewards.com Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates Ethereum 2.0 is up and running smoothly! With more than 90,000 active validators and thousands more queued up and waiting to join the network, the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain is looking as healthy as ever. What’s New in Eth2–13 February 2021: An editorial on how Ethereum will scale, Beacon Chain updates, tooling updates and more in this week’s eth2 update from Ben. Eth2 Quick Update №22: Updates on the eth2 workshop, eth1+eth2 merge and sharding in this very quick update from Danny Ryan. Advocates of EIP-1559 are rallying behind the proposal, which aims to address several recurring issues with the network, including congestion. Latest Eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Al...