<p>The Marlin network has announced the launch of FlowMint Stakedrop - a distribution method for the networks native POND tokens amongst delegators staking DOT, ATOM, NEAR and IRIS. </p><p>All delegators staking these tokens with P2P Validator will be able to participate in the Marlin FlowMint Stakedrop to earn extra POND tokens.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/12/02--1-.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1280" height="720" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2020/12/02--1-.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2020/12/02--1-.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/12/02--1-.png 1280w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>It is expected that 20% of Marlin's POND tokens will be distributed daily pro-rata amongst participants who are currently staking their digital assets.</p><h3 id="the-marlin-network">The Marlin Network</h3><p>Marlin is a layer-0 protocol focused on network-layer performance, security and robustness. It speeds up block propagation of existing blockchains to enable higher throughput. Marlin nodes compete with one another to transmit blocks from producers to receivers of various blockchains. The Marlin protocol bridges the gap between the performance and scale achieved by web2 and the security and decentralization demanded by web3.</p><p>Marlin Protocol has reeled in a $3 million seed round from Binance Labs, Arrington XRP, Electric Capital, NGC and other investors.</p><h3 id="how-to-get-pond-tokens">How To Get POND Tokens</h3><p>To receive the tokens, P2P delegators will have to link their staking address in Polkadot, Cosmos, Near Protocol, Irisnet, and the ETH address where the POND tokens will be transferred after confirmation of operations.</p><p>Detailed instructions can be found below:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-polkadot-delegator-and-validator/">Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Polkadot delegator</a></li><li><a href="https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-cosmos-delegator-and-validator/">Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Cosmos delegator</a></li><li><a href="https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-near-delegator-and-validator/">Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Near Protocol delegator</a></li><li><a href="https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-an-irisnet-delegator-and-validator/">Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Irisnet delegator</a></li></ul><p>Tokens will be distributed on the Matic sidechain<strong> </strong>due to the gas-intensiveness of the smart contracts. You'll have to transfer the tokens to Ethereum Mainnet to be able to interact with Marlin contracts.</p><h3 id="delegator-registration">Delegator Registration</h3><p>P2P delegators in Polkadot, Cosmos, Near Protocol and Irisnet are getting a unique opportunity to participate in the Marlin network and get POND tokens. Our team has launched Marlin gateway nodes and all of the validator addresses have been added to the whitelists for FlowMint stakedrop.</p><p>Registration for ATOM, DOT and IRIS stakers <strong>will begin on December 15, 2020.</strong></p><p>Additional information:</p><ul><li>MPOND needs to be claimed separately for each chain.</li><li>If you delegate two different addresses for the same chain you need to register for stakedrop twice and use two different ETH addresses.</li><li>The same ETH address can be used for bonding in different chains.</li></ul><h3 id="pond-distribution">POND Distribution</h3><p>Marlin will begin with Polkadot, Cosmos, Irisnet, Near and Matic. That is, 0.027/5% tokens will be dedicated towards eligible delegators of ATOM, DOT, IRIS, MATIC and NEAR distributed daily pro-rata amongst each community based on the size of stake/delegation.</p><p>Eventually FlowMint will support Tezos and other networks, allocating a portion of genesis tokens to eligible delegators of the given networks to be distributed pro-rata each day based on the size of the stake or delegation. </p><p>We will inform you about the addition of new networks on our <a href="https://twitter.com/P2Pvalidator">Twitter </a>and <a href="https://t.me/P2Pstaking">Telegram</a> channels.</p><h3 id="about-p2p">About P2P</h3><p>P2P Validator is a world-leading staking provider with the best industry security practices and proven expertise. The service provides comprehensive due-diligence of digital assets and offers only top-notch staking opportunities. At the time of the latest update, more than 3 billion of USD value is staked with <a href="https://p2p.org/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=marlin_stakedrop">P2P Validator</a> by over 10,000 delegators across 25+ networks.</p><p>We are constantly working on improvements to bring our customers the best proposals. Participating and supporting new blockchains and protocols brings benefits to all our stakers.</p><hr><p><em>Interested in earning<em> POND<em><em>? Contact</em></em></em></em> <em><em>p.pavlov<em><em>@p2p.org</em></em></em></em> <em>for<em><em><em> personal assistance.</em></em></em></em></p><hr><p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Web:</strong></strong></strong> </strong><a href="https://p2p.org/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=marlin_stakedrop">p2p.org</a></p><p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Twitter:</strong></strong></strong> </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/p2pvalidator">@p2pvalidator</a></p><p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Telegram:</strong></strong></strong> </strong><a href="https://t.me/P2Pstaking">t.me/p2pvalidator</a></p>

<p>NuCypher is a decentralized secret management network where a group of nodes (workers) perform proxy re-encryption to manage permissions on encrypted data instead of a centralized server. It allows safe data exchange without ability for proxies to learn the plain text info. Correctness of worker behavior is guaranteed by staking and cryptographic proofs. Additional token emission incentivizes node operators to maintain high availability infrastructure and in the case of network rules violation a portion of their holdings will be slashed.</p><h3 id="current-state-and-market-potential"><strong>Current state and market potential</strong></h3><p>NuCypher mainnet successfully launched on 15th October 2020 allowing token holders to stake their NU.</p><p>Privacy of sensitive data is a vexed problem and services provided by NuCypher project are attractive and valuable not only in crypto space. The highest growth of<a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/798564/number-of-us-residents-affected-by-data-breaches/"> data breaches in USA</a> was in the healthcare sector demonstrating 80% increase from 2017 to 2019 including the transmission of confidential data without proper encryption.</p><p>Enterprises also are seeking ways to avoid data leaks and securely manage and share sensitive data.<a href="https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/key-management-service-market-8188"> The Global Key Management as a Service Market</a> market size is expected to grow from $363 million in 2018 to $1,28 billion by 2023 and is estimated to reach $2,29 billion by 2025 during the period 2019–2025.</p><h3 id="token-allocation"><strong>Token allocation</strong></h3><p>NuCypher raised $750k in 2016 ; $4.3 million in 2017 and $10,7 million in 2018. The overall token allocation showed in a diagram below.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/10/image-2.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1600" height="897" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2020/10/image-2.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2020/10/image-2.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/10/image-2.png 1600w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h3 id="staking-economics"><strong>Staking economics</strong></h3><p>In order to participate in the network as a worker and perform re-encryption, node operators have to lock NU tokens. At the start rewards from providing re-encryptions might be low so until the project gets traction, node operators will be incentivized mostly by emission of new tokens. <strong>Holders can delegate their funds and earn a share of rewards in proportion to their stake.</strong></p><p><strong>Compensation is higher when tokens are locked for a longer period.</strong> To get maximum compensation stakers have to lock their funds for at least a year to be allowed to accept policies with longer terms. Shorter commitment will result in lower rewards for participants and they will not be allowed to provide re-encryption if the length of a particular policy is higher than chosen lock-up period. <strong>Staking since the beginning of mainnet with compounding of rewards also will result in higher returns.</strong> The whole stake can be split into sub-stakes where each will have its own lock-up period.</p><p>In existing representation only one staker can delegate to a worker in near future, staker can be a smart contract that accepts delegations from various addresses. We believe in future adoption of NuCypher and will provide the long term staking maximizing staking rewards.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/10/table-14.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="1368" height="668" srcset="https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w600/2020/10/table-14.png 600w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/size/w1000/2020/10/table-14.png 1000w, https://p2p.org/economy/content/images/2020/10/table-14.png 1368w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><h3 id="native-token"><strong>Native token</strong></h3><p>NuCypher token NU is ERC20 token the main purpose of which is to act as a staking token in the network with limited liquidity and low volatility. Amount of provided re-encryptions will be proportional to stake which is guaranteed to be locked at the end time of the policy. Node operators with higher stake presuming higher loss in case of bad behavior and ability to accept policies with longer terms.</p><p>NuCypher based on Ethereum blockchain means that users should have ETH on the worker node’s address to pay tx fees. Workers also share service fees paid by end users in ETH for providing re-encryptions.</p><p>Over 350 000 ETH were locked in the smart contract by participants to take part in<a href="https://blog.nucypher.com/the-worklock/"> WorkLock token distribution model</a> proposed by NuCypher team.</p><h3 id="slashing-risks"><strong>Slashing risks</strong></h3><p>There are two potential slashing conditions:</p><ul><li>Providing incorrect responses</li><li>Continuous downtime</li></ul><p>At network genesis, the protocol will be able to detect and attribute instances of incorrect re-encryptions. If there are many sub-stakes and misbehavior occurs, unlocked tokens which do not participate in staking will be slashed in the first place and then ascending sub-stakes with lower lock-ups.</p><p>A false re-encryption is not like a double-sign. Correctness of a re-encryption can be proved via a zero-knowledge proof. If users receive incorrect re-encryption, they can provide this proof to the network, which will result in the node getting slashed. <strong>For each violation, 2×10−18 NU tokens will be deleted from the offender’s stake</strong>. <br><br>In the future, slashing parameters can be changed by the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that is managed by NU stakeholders who operate nodes. It makes NuCypher a community driven project from the very beginning.</p><p>At network launch slashing for worker unavailability is turned off until it will be enabled by the DAO if needed. <strong>Stakers will not receive inflation rewards for any period the node is offline</strong>. A worker that doesn't timely apply updates and constantly experiencing downtime will also miss rewards.</p><h3 id="about-p2p-validator">About P2P Validator</h3><p><a href="https://p2p.org">P2P Validator</a> is a world-leading non-custodial staking provider securing more than $3 billion by over 10,000 delegators across 25+ high-class networks. Our team has close connections with NuCypher and we have participated in the incentivized testnet since the beginning. P2P Validator invested its own funds in NuCypher project in 2017 and intends to support the network in the long term.</p><h3 id="useful-nucypher-resources"><strong>Useful NuCypher resources</strong></h3><ul><li>Website:<a href="https://www.nucypher.com/"> https://www.nucypher.com/</a></li><li>Github:<a href="https://github.com/nucypher/"> https://github.com/nucypher/</a></li><li>Docs:<a href="https://docs.nucypher.com/en/latest/"> https://docs.nucypher.com/en/latest/</a></li><li>Whitepaper Technical:<a href="https://github.com/nucypher/whitepaper/blob/master/whitepaper.pdf"> https://github.com/nucypher/whitepaper/blob/master/whitepaper.pdf</a></li><li>Blog:<a href="https://blog.nucypher.com/"> https://blog.nucypher.com/</a></li></ul><hr><p><em>Want to stake NU with us? Alexey will be happy to help. Contact [email protected] to get personal assistance.</em></p><hr><ul><li><strong>Stake NU with us:</strong> <a href="https://p2p.org/nucypher">https://p2p.org/nucypher</a></li><li><strong>Web:</strong><a href="https://p2p.org"> https://p2p.org</a></li><li><strong>Twitter:</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/p2pvalidator"> @p2pvalidator</a></li><li><strong>Telegram:</strong><a href="https://t.me/p2pvalidator"> https://t.me/p2pvalidator</a></li></ul>