<p><em>P2P.org recently launched a public pool on Aptos, and we are currently working towards accumulating a stake of 1 million to activate our node. If you’re interested in partnering with us, please feel free to reach out by contacting [email protected] or reaching us on Telegram at @P2P_staking.</em></p><p>Aptos is a Layer 1 blockchain heavily backed by an impressive group of VC funds, a16z, Tiger Global, Katie Haun, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs and PayPal Ventures. With its own programming language called Move, strong partnerships, and a focus on technology, this blockchain holds great potential for real-world applications based on interest from various tech giants. On April 20th, delegated staking was launched, and P2P.org aims to provide you with all the information you need before starting your Aptos staking journey. Additionally, we conducted analytical research comparing the pace of staking adoption to a similar Layer 1 competitor.</p><p><strong>Currently, six node providers are available for staking</strong>, most of whom are well-known players in the crypto world. For example, Jump-Crypto has built a wormhole bridge connecting over 20 networks, and B-Ware labs led the development of delegated staking on Aptos. The network security is robust, backed by over 100 validators from around the globe using a different private staking mechanism. There is also a liquid staking opportunity called Tortuga Finance.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2586.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1680" height="734" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/2586.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2023/05/2586.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/2586.png 1600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2586.png 1680w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>Node providers start generating rewards only after the total stake reaches over one million APT, approximately $9 million (as of 24.05.23). Currently, over ten inactive validators are still seeking enough stake to become active.</p><p><strong>The Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on Aptos is 7%</strong> and depends on a validator's uptime and commission. So far, all validators have been performing well, and there haven't been any significant downtime periods. There is no slashing, and the minimum commission is 7%, resulting in a final yield increase of approximately 6.5%.</p><p><strong>The validator unlock period varies from a few hours to 30 days</strong>, depending on when you unstake your APT. For example, if you stake 10 days into the cycle, you must wait 20 days to unlock your tokens. Once the unlock date has passed, you can withdraw your tokens.</p><p><strong>The minimum stake required is 11 APT</strong>, and there is also a staked fee. You may notice that the amount you have staked is less than the total stake you added. This is because you start earning rewards when the next epoch begins. However, this fee is then returned at the end of the current epoch.</p><p>Staking can be done directly from the main Aptos Explorer <a href="https://explorer.aptoslabs.com/validators/delegation?network=mainnet&ref=p2p.org">page</a>. All you need to do is connect one of the supported wallets (Petra, Pontem, Martian, Blocto, to name a few), choose a validator, and click the "stake" button. Our pool is called p2p-org.</p><p><strong>How quickly does the staking amount grow?</strong> Is the pace fast enough to instil confidence in token holders regarding Aptos as a long-term investment? How many institutions and whales are involved in staking? To answer these questions, let's compare Aptos to a similar Layer 1 blockchain, Near. For a fair comparison, let's return to October 2020, during the early stages of staking on Near.<br></p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2583.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1680" height="971" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/2583.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2023/05/2583.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/2583.png 1600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2583.png 1680w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>As we can see, the lines are quite uniform, except for the significant spikes that occurred on Aptos on days 3 and 23. These spikes result from the requirement of reaching a threshold of 1 million APT for a public node to become active. On those days, several large public pools joined the validation set, particularly on day 23 when a pool with over 14 million APT entered. In Near, at that time, the total of 100 biggest validators was required, so the minimum stake needed was not predetermined, resulting in a smoother line.</p><p><strong>Now let's examine who delegates on Aptos.</strong></p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2584.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1680" height="971" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/2584.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2023/05/2584.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/2584.png 1600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2584.png 1680w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>As we can see from the table, the majority of the stake is held by a few large institutions on both networks. However, this distinction is more significant on Aptos. You cannot start a pool and wait for small delegators to collectively generate 1M APT. They are more likely to stake with active pools to generate rewards. Therefore, you must find a large partner who can stake 1M APT at once.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2585.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1680" height="739" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2023/05/2585.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2023/05/2585.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/2585.png 1600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2023/05/2585.png 1680w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>The table shows that only 15 delegators own 98.7% of the total stake. Most of them staked their tokens before the pools became active. Their total Total Value Locked (TVL) in USD is nearly $290,000,000, accounting for 85% of all delegated stake. However, this comparison is uneven because, at this stage, the Aptos foundation hadn't yet bootstrapped the validators, and there are only 6 mainnet participants who essentially stake their own money through the mechanism. This distribution will normalise when over 100 private validators join public staking.</p><p>Aptos delegated staking represents a significant milestone in the network's roadmap, although it is still in the early stages of development, with only a few participants currently involved. Despite this, there is noticeable interest in staking within the community, with a sufficient number of small and medium-sized delegators. However, the majority of stakers are still large investors. In contrast to Near, Aptos has gained support from major VC funds and global tech giants. This offers the potential for significant collaboration projects (e.g. Google Cloud partnership). According to Aptos, this is expected to accelerate the adoption of web3 and lead to numerous real-world applications of crypto solutions.</p>
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<p>It has been a little over two years since Near's mainnet launched and a wave of web 3.0 mass adoption started. The network has achieved over 20M accounts, 200M transactions and 800 on-chain projects.</p><p>We at P2P have decided to look back at the history of Near and highlight the events that caused the highest on-chain activity. We analyzed the dynamics of the daily number of transactions and new accounts, gathered data on how many likes Near official Twitter account collected and present all of this on a chart. Through our analysis, we spotted 5 big spikes and examined the events that caused them.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/p-k8p0tT1bSupBucMyf6ycLmnE9LtwWx828km08s1AXwNARd4R6PHiOnKuksk2_lzmz5cTpxum9BZqmu8pOPMcDQAz1DZHf4_HZ9UtCPyHBHHerb1Y3_5mP1uKA9AvFSQtLd0TpPl-z9aUcVMp2laBR19SQTiq0AH8kL6GoHhTrWNqo-DOMrDn1sN-unLA" class="kg-image" alt="Near blockchain transactions" loading="lazy"></figure><h3 id="huge-funding-raisejanuary-10-to-16-2022">Huge Funding Raise - January 10 to 16, 2022 </h3><p>On January 10, 2022, Forbes listed Near as the 3rd fastest-growing crypto ecosystem, based on the growth of the number of full-time developers from 2020 to 2021. This tweet became the most-liked in the history of @NEARprotocol (33.7k likes and 2.7k retweets). As of today, Near is still in the top 4 by weekly active developers.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/MTJRdrelmBd2WgA3SZU-viQejaVA4o1oCHg4DpkC5ZnNXynz9USvmvcTYUBypGiAuFgoUYf_5P4iq2S41v5aTt6dFVeP0fD1-hOCcJKofHG4qHIn49MVPXUI4Lv1mHk-Zn0ypYtwNCxfXBM5mgXxUUYjXECUj0ZniKDUrgJySzqWS4l9eJMlNsWSa6MbJg" class="kg-image" alt="The 10 Fastest-Growing Cruptoccurency Ecosystems" loading="lazy"></figure><p>Shortly after, Near raised $150 million, supported by crypto-native funds including Mechanism Capital, Dragonfly Capital, a16z, Jump, Zee Prime, FoliuBN s, Amber Group, 6th Man Ventures, Circle Ventures, and MetaWeb Ventures.</p><p>“With multichain interoperability of Rainbow Bridge, Aurora (EVM), Octopus (Substrate), and NEAR native’s Nightshade sharding technology, NEAR is best suited for empowering blockchain applications for mainstream adoption,” said Amos Zhang, founder of MetaWeb Ventures.</p><p>Taking into consideration that only $65.9M were previously raised, such a massive investment led to a surge in interest in Near and the second-largest spike in the number of transactions and accounts was registered (up to 1.8M transactions and 0.6M new accounts a day).</p><h3 id="nft-boom-and-near-crowdmarch-15-to-21-2022">NFT BOOM and NEAR Crowd - March 15 to 21, 2022</h3><p>From March 15 to March 21, the Near network reached over 1M transactions and 270k accounts. During this time the Network achieved over 4 million total accounts and was equipped with strong developer tools attracting more and more enthusiasts to build their project.</p><p>One such project was NEARApss - an NFT platform that provided a convenient way to create and share digital art. On 20th March it generated over 500k transactions but shortly after became inactive.</p><p>The second most popular dApp back then which generated over 39k transactions/day was NEAR Crowd. It is a service that allows people to earn NEAR by completing small tasks like describing an image, writing an article or transcribing short audio clips, which are usually aimed at training machine learning algorithms. To ensure tasks are completed properly, some people are paid to verify that tasks were completed accurately. To keep these workers vigilant, honeypots exist. Honeypots are tasks that are intentionally completed with mistakes.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image.png" class="kg-image" alt="NEAR crowd - complete tasks to earn NEAR" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="1151" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>For small tasks, the price varies from 0.1 to 1 NEAR while more significant tasks could pay up to 5 NEAR. Working 2-3h a day could generate a 400-800$ income per month.</p><h3 id="sweatcoinmay-1-to-6-2022">Sweatcoin - May 1 to 6, 2022</h3><p>In April 2022 Sweatcoin announced a partnership with Near. On May 4th Sweatcoin airdrop generated over 0.5M transactions which made the network exceed 1.2M daily transactions.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-2.png" class="kg-image" alt="Sweatcoin - earn SWEAT" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="829" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image-2.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image-2.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-2.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>Sweatcoin is a free app that rewards users’ daily steps with a native token SWEAT. It’s the #1 app in over 60 countries and has 120M+ accounts.</p><p>Right now you can earn 1 SWEAT - which is around 0.02$ - for every 1 000 steps. However, tokens get increasingly more difficult to mint as time passes. This means that over time it will require increasingly more steps to gain SWEAT. It is also only possible to mint SWEAT for the first 5000 steps done each day, the subsequent 5000 will reward you with Sweatcoin - a token that can not be traded and is only used for rewards in the Sweatcoin shop.</p><h3 id="pizzamakeraugust-21-to-22-2022">Pizzamaker - August 21 to 22, 2022</h3><p>On August 22, we witnessed the largest spike in transactions in Near history. Over 2M transactions and more than 75% came from one account named “pizzamaker.near”.</p><p>No one knows for sure what was the real purpose behind those transactions. We analyzed the behaviour of this account and noticed that most of the transactions were related to Ref Finance and Jumbo, the biggest exchange platforms on Near. He was active from February 2022 and on average sends around 2k transactions per day. However, on August 20 and 21 this account made 1.2M and 1.6M transactions respectively and paid over $15k in fees. Taking everything into consideration, we assume that this is an arbitrage bot that was misconfigured at that point in time.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-5.png" class="kg-image" alt="Near transactions by month 2022" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="693" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image-5.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image-5.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-5.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h3 id="nearconseptember-11-to-14-2022">Nearcon - September 11 to 14, 2022</h3><p>On September 11, the Near foundation held the incredible Nearcon event. It took place in Lisbon and had 3 giant stages and over 220 speakers. Big announcements were expected at this conference and it attracted more than 100k new users every day which fueled the network with more than 1M transactions per day.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="Nearcon 2022 in Lisbon" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="901" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image-1.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image-1.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-1.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>Here’s a highlight of the most notable announcements:</p><p><strong>Nightshade Sharding Phase 1 launch</strong> - an important mechanism that helps scale the network and keep transaction fees low.</p><p><strong>Javascript SDK release</strong> - a collection of software development tools, that made it possible to write smart contracts in JavaScript, by far one of the most popular programming languages. The Near network and web3.0 apps became accessible to 12 million JS developers.</p><p><strong>USDT release</strong> - USDT is a popular stablecoin and it was announced to be launching on Near.</p><p><strong>NDC introduction</strong> - a community-driven initiative to empower ecosystem-wide decentralization through transparent governance, on-chain decision-making and treasury management.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-3.png" class="kg-image" alt="NEAR" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="806" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image-3.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image-3.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-3.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>For the past 2 years, Near has seen a lot of activity and growth. There’s still a lot more to come and at P2P we are excited to be part of this journey. </p><p>To support the community and celebrate NEAR, we are offering a 0% fee on Near staking until the end of 2022. Visit <a href="p2p.org/near">p2p.org/near</a> for more details. </p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-4.png" class="kg-image" alt="Near staking - 0% fee" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="901" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2022/11/image-4.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2022/11/image-4.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2022/11/image-4.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><hr><h3 id="about-p2p"><strong>About P2P</strong></h3><p><a href="https://p2p.org/?ref=p2p.org">P2P Validator</a> is a world-leading staking provider with the best industry security practices and proven expertise. We provide comprehensive due diligence on digital assets and offer only top-notch staking opportunities. At the time of the latest update, <strong><strong>more than 1,5 billion USD is staked with P2P Validator by over 25,000 delegators across 25+ networks.</strong></strong> </p><p></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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