Our eggnet has concluded! 🎉
The response was nothing short of astonishing, with 1100 nodes participating at its peak. 🔥
This gives way for the next stage in Marlin’s development trajectory, the Larvanet, which will begin within a month.
It has been our goal to distribute tokens amongst community members who actively participate in building and operating the Marlin network, be it via network rewards or the FlowMint stakedrop. On that front, 4.3% of the total supply of Marlin tokens will be awarded to the Eggnet participants. 💰💰💰
A big thank you to all those who participated! You guys are awesome. 💯
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/the-eggs-ready-to-hatch-announcing-the-larvanet/
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1336151616752259072
The response was nothing short of astonishing, with 1100 nodes participating at its peak. 🔥
This gives way for the next stage in Marlin’s development trajectory, the Larvanet, which will begin within a month.
It has been our goal to distribute tokens amongst community members who actively participate in building and operating the Marlin network, be it via network rewards or the FlowMint stakedrop. On that front, 4.3% of the total supply of Marlin tokens will be awarded to the Eggnet participants. 💰💰💰
A big thank you to all those who participated! You guys are awesome. 💯
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/the-eggs-ready-to-hatch-announcing-the-larvanet/
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1336151616752259072
Prateek will be speaking about the role of an efficient and secure network layer in building scalable public and enterprise blockchains at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2020.
When: December 9th, 4:00-4:40 PM CET
Event info: https://pbwsummit.com/
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/PrateekReddyy/status/1336551438407802881
When: December 9th, 4:00-4:40 PM CET
Event info: https://pbwsummit.com/
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/PrateekReddyy/status/1336551438407802881
Farming is dead 👩🌾 Or is it?
The Eth DeFi community had a fun summer with PoS token holders and validators of Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, Cosmos, IRISnet and Matic Network on the sidelines 😡 Fret not!
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/announcing-flowmint-a-cross-chain-stakedrop-for-platform-tokens/
20% of supply
Starts December 14, 9pm PT
What, why & how 👇
- What did we learn from farming? Communities and traders like to engage with new distribution models, calculates APYs, and overall degen around. Many protocols have fallen to the sweet temptation of boosting rewards and getting the word viral out there... but at what cost?
- APYs which are not sustainable, dry out. Inflation is a directional tool: a strong way up correlates with a strong way down. But it doesn't mean protocols should stop dedicating supply to the community and just keep all the tokens to themselves. Not at all!
- It's one of the most important steps in the life of any protocol to decentralize its ownership, governance, and empower all communities to become part of a new movement. While there are ways to vest LP rewards, retention mechanisms, and so on - we should do better.
- So what's Marlin's take on it? Now let's step back on WHY decentralize ownership and involve communities in the first place... well, the latter is pretty obvious, right? As for the former, many miss the point. And that's where we feel like we got in the right spot.
- Marlin at its core is a Layer 0 protocol. What does that mean, you ask? We aim to improve and upgrade every protocol from the ground-up. Don't think about the Layer above, we scale blockchains, protocols, APIs, you name it - by reducing latency and speed.
- For instance, check out this piece on the Graph Protocol we published recently where we help improve response times from 10 seconds to a few milliseconds.
- Now, back to the question of a distributed supply. By empowering all communities to participate in FlowMint - we increase the chances of Marlin ecosystem growing. For example, you run a Polkadot node? Well, you are a holder and a potential provider at the same time.
- Who decides which protocol gets to be integrated first, where we should focus within p2p area, and other important issues? Marlin relayers are impartial, they provide services to any other protocol, improving them from underneath governed equally by every other protocol community
- So there is the idea of FlowMint: over 20% of supply dedicated to staking communities & validators over the course of 24 months. This gives enough time to validators to be onboarded, integrate new chains, and start growing their user bases at the same time.
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1337025088558755841
The Eth DeFi community had a fun summer with PoS token holders and validators of Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, Cosmos, IRISnet and Matic Network on the sidelines 😡 Fret not!
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/announcing-flowmint-a-cross-chain-stakedrop-for-platform-tokens/
20% of supply
Starts December 14, 9pm PT
What, why & how 👇
- What did we learn from farming? Communities and traders like to engage with new distribution models, calculates APYs, and overall degen around. Many protocols have fallen to the sweet temptation of boosting rewards and getting the word viral out there... but at what cost?
- APYs which are not sustainable, dry out. Inflation is a directional tool: a strong way up correlates with a strong way down. But it doesn't mean protocols should stop dedicating supply to the community and just keep all the tokens to themselves. Not at all!
- It's one of the most important steps in the life of any protocol to decentralize its ownership, governance, and empower all communities to become part of a new movement. While there are ways to vest LP rewards, retention mechanisms, and so on - we should do better.
- So what's Marlin's take on it? Now let's step back on WHY decentralize ownership and involve communities in the first place... well, the latter is pretty obvious, right? As for the former, many miss the point. And that's where we feel like we got in the right spot.
- Marlin at its core is a Layer 0 protocol. What does that mean, you ask? We aim to improve and upgrade every protocol from the ground-up. Don't think about the Layer above, we scale blockchains, protocols, APIs, you name it - by reducing latency and speed.
- For instance, check out this piece on the Graph Protocol we published recently where we help improve response times from 10 seconds to a few milliseconds.
- Now, back to the question of a distributed supply. By empowering all communities to participate in FlowMint - we increase the chances of Marlin ecosystem growing. For example, you run a Polkadot node? Well, you are a holder and a potential provider at the same time.
- Who decides which protocol gets to be integrated first, where we should focus within p2p area, and other important issues? Marlin relayers are impartial, they provide services to any other protocol, improving them from underneath governed equally by every other protocol community
- So there is the idea of FlowMint: over 20% of supply dedicated to staking communities & validators over the course of 24 months. This gives enough time to validators to be onboarded, integrate new chains, and start growing their user bases at the same time.
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1337025088558755841
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Farming is dead 👩🌾 Or is it? The Eth DeFi community had a fun summer with PoS token holders and validators of @Polkadot @NEARProtocol @cosmos @irisnetwork @maticnetwork on the sidelines 😡 Fret not! https://t.co/Tx44hIXpIJ 20% of supply December 14, 9pm PT…
After some sleepless nights with Fantom, happy to share that FTM holders can also participate in FlowMint. FTM validators should register ASAP. Delegators of such validators will be able to claim a share of 20% MPOND in the StakeDrop starting Dec 14!
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-fantom-delegator-and-validator/
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-fantom-delegator-and-validator/
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Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Fantom delegator and validator - Blog
FlowMint is a mechanism to distribute Marlin tokens (MPOND) amongst token holders of different blockchains who stake towards eligible validators...
To further promote decentralization and distribution, BNB delegators on BinanceSmartChain can now earn MPOND by delegating to BSC validators on-chain!
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-bnb-delegator-on-binance-smart-chain/
Marlin FlowMint - starts Dec 14, 9pm PT
Learn more about BNB delegations at https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/delegator/del-guide.html
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-bnb-delegator-on-binance-smart-chain/
Marlin FlowMint - starts Dec 14, 9pm PT
Learn more about BNB delegations at https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/delegator/del-guide.html
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Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a BNB delegator on Binance Smart Chain - Blog
FlowMint is a mechanism to distribute Marlin tokens (MPOND) amongst token holders of different blockchains who stake towards eligible validators.
FlowMint is live. Dive in! 🤿
Where: https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint
What: A 20% token distribution of #MPOND in a cross-chain stakedrop over 24 months 👀
Who: Cosmos, IRISnet, Matic Network, NEAR Protocol, Polkadot and Binance Smart Chain with many more to be added 💯
When: Now!
Delegate your native tokens to whitelisted validators on FlowMint and earn #MPOND!
Where: https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint
What: A 20% token distribution of #MPOND in a cross-chain stakedrop over 24 months 👀
Who: Cosmos, IRISnet, Matic Network, NEAR Protocol, Polkadot and Binance Smart Chain with many more to be added 💯
When: Now!
Delegate your native tokens to whitelisted validators on FlowMint and earn #MPOND!
As many would have already noticed, our official Twitter account has not been available for the past 18 hours. We've reached out to Twitter soon after this happened and are looking to get this resolved at the earliest. Unfortunately, this is not a unique situation as xDai has experienced the same issue.
In the meantime, this is the best place to receive official communication from us.
In the meantime, this is the best place to receive official communication from us.
Fantom is now LIVE on FlowMint! 🎉
Stake your FTM tokens with whitelisted validators supporting Marlin and earn MPOND.
https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint
Guide: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-fantom-delegator-and-validator/
Stake your FTM tokens with whitelisted validators supporting Marlin and earn MPOND.
https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint
Guide: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/participating-in-marlin-flowmint-as-a-fantom-delegator-and-validator/
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Participating in Marlin FlowMint as a Fantom delegator and validator - Blog
FlowMint is a mechanism to distribute Marlin tokens (MPOND) amongst token holders of different blockchains who stake towards eligible validators...
🔊 The first proposal in POND governance by P2P Validator is up for discussion!
🔎 It suggests changing the reward function for a chain in FlowMint from a constant fraction to weighted by TVL
🤝 The proposal, if passed, stands to benefit Polkadot delegators
🧠 Brainstorm: https://research.marlin.pro/t/proposal-1-change-the-calculation-of-mpond-distributed-to-different-blockchain-communities
🔎 It suggests changing the reward function for a chain in FlowMint from a constant fraction to weighted by TVL
🤝 The proposal, if passed, stands to benefit Polkadot delegators
🧠 Brainstorm: https://research.marlin.pro/t/proposal-1-change-the-calculation-of-mpond-distributed-to-different-blockchain-communities
📢 Support for non-foundation nodes in Matic has been added in FlowMint!
👀 Updated validator list: https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint/validators
👀 Updated validator list: https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint/validators
FlowMint crossed $90m in total stake bonded from delegators of validators running Marlin gateways on Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, Fantom, Cosmos, Binance Smart Chain, Matic and IRISnet.
20% of genesis MPond to be distributed over 24 months to protocol communities adopting Marlin. 🤝
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1340203804780707840
20% of genesis MPond to be distributed over 24 months to protocol communities adopting Marlin. 🤝
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1340203804780707840
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FlowMint crossed $90m in total stake bonded from delegators of validators running Marlin gateways on @Polkadot @NEARProtocol @FantomFDN @cosmos @BinanceChain @maticnetwork @irisnetwork 20% of genesis MPond to be distributed over 24 months to protocol communities…
⌛️ Larvanet's approaching
🛡 Nodes req tokens to stake
💰 Validators need to cover costs
🐟 Marlin's a base layer 0 protocol
📈 Economic guarantees req are high
⚖️ Governance has to cater to incongruous communities
The POND / MPond design rationale 👇
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/introducing-mpond-the-marlin-network-tokens/
We introduce a dual token model comprised of a semi-transferrable MPond and completely transferrable POND with a bridge governed by token holders themselves. Inspired from Project Serum's MSRM/SRM model, Nexus Mutual's bridge design, and Fred Ehrsam's governance minimization.
We think the design of MPond/POND is an interesting experiment in exploring security design and governance in PoS systems. While POND incentivizes validators and is a route to acquiring MPOND, MPOND's design ensures that economic security and governance aren't easily compromised.
We invite you for further discussions on our Discord Channel
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1341014721042870273
🛡 Nodes req tokens to stake
💰 Validators need to cover costs
🐟 Marlin's a base layer 0 protocol
📈 Economic guarantees req are high
⚖️ Governance has to cater to incongruous communities
The POND / MPond design rationale 👇
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/introducing-mpond-the-marlin-network-tokens/
We introduce a dual token model comprised of a semi-transferrable MPond and completely transferrable POND with a bridge governed by token holders themselves. Inspired from Project Serum's MSRM/SRM model, Nexus Mutual's bridge design, and Fred Ehrsam's governance minimization.
We think the design of MPond/POND is an interesting experiment in exploring security design and governance in PoS systems. While POND incentivizes validators and is a route to acquiring MPOND, MPOND's design ensures that economic security and governance aren't easily compromised.
We invite you for further discussions on our Discord Channel
Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1341014721042870273
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Introducing (M)Pond: The Marlin Network Tokens - Blog
Marlin is a layer-0 protocol focussed on network-layer performance and security. Think of it as SilverPeak for blockchains or Akamai for decentralized...
Marlin Protocol Announcements pinned «⌛️ Larvanet's approaching 🛡 Nodes req tokens to stake 💰 Validators need to cover costs 🐟 Marlin's a base layer 0 protocol 📈 Economic guarantees req are high ⚖️ Governance has to cater to incongruous communities The POND / MPond design rationale 👇 https:…»
Over $140m in total stake bonded on FlowMint. 🤩
Delegators of whitelisted validators running Marlin gateways earn $MPond
⏲ 24-month stakedrop
💰 20% of genesis MPond
🛡 Stake directly on your native chain
🔓 No additional lock-ups
Don't forget to RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1342893631586234369
Delegators of whitelisted validators running Marlin gateways earn $MPond
⏲ 24-month stakedrop
💰 20% of genesis MPond
🛡 Stake directly on your native chain
🔓 No additional lock-ups
Don't forget to RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1342893631586234369
Happy New Year! 🎊
Our progress in 2020 👇
🕸 OpenWeaver
🐟 Marlin Cache
🥚 Concluded Eggnet
🌊 FlowMint Stakedrop
🎯 Token Launch
Upcoming:
⏳ Larvanet
⚖️ The POND DAO
and more...
Here's to 2021 and beyond!
Thank you for your continued support. ❤️
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1344715808404983808
Our progress in 2020 👇
🕸 OpenWeaver
🐟 Marlin Cache
🥚 Concluded Eggnet
🌊 FlowMint Stakedrop
🎯 Token Launch
Upcoming:
⏳ Larvanet
⚖️ The POND DAO
and more...
Here's to 2021 and beyond!
Thank you for your continued support. ❤️
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1344715808404983808
The bridge is open! 🎢
Here's a tutorial on how to convert POND to MPond for those looking to operate Marlin nodes in the Larvanet.
A user-friendly interface is in the works and will be shared soon.
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/converting-pond-to-mpond-using-the-marlin-bridge/
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1346799712066621440
Here's a tutorial on how to convert POND to MPond for those looking to operate Marlin nodes in the Larvanet.
A user-friendly interface is in the works and will be shared soon.
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/converting-pond-to-mpond-using-the-marlin-bridge/
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1346799712066621440
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Tutorial: Lock POND to mint MPond using the Marlin bridge - Blog
Our token economics post introduced the Marlin tokens POND and MPond. We had mentioned that POND would be distributed amongst eggnet participants and...
Introducing the next iteration of marlinctl based on feedback received from Eggnet participants
🤖 Support more runtimes (supervisor, systemd), platforms (Mac)
🧠 IaaC-like resource management for multiple instances
🖥 Multi-config instances on the same machine
🧊 Freeze prod version to prevent auto-updates
🔍 Integrity verification of binaries
🔧 Custom update policies
📓 Better logging and debugging support
🆘 Unstable channel support for testers
🧩 Better semantic versioning and easier upgrade path for upcoming versions
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlinctl-2-improved-process-management-for-marlin-applications/
Get started at: https://github.com/marlinprotocol/marlinctl2
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347480501343277060
🤖 Support more runtimes (supervisor, systemd), platforms (Mac)
🧠 IaaC-like resource management for multiple instances
🖥 Multi-config instances on the same machine
🧊 Freeze prod version to prevent auto-updates
🔍 Integrity verification of binaries
🔧 Custom update policies
📓 Better logging and debugging support
🆘 Unstable channel support for testers
🧩 Better semantic versioning and easier upgrade path for upcoming versions
https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlinctl-2-improved-process-management-for-marlin-applications/
Get started at: https://github.com/marlinprotocol/marlinctl2
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347480501343277060
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marlinctl 2 – Improved process management for Marlin applications - Blog
The spawn-net taught us the importance of providing a seamless experience to end users for managing nodes running Marlin applications. With this in mind...
A lot of curiosity about Layer 0 & Marlin. 🧐
Hear Prateek talk about Marlin's incentivized network layer propagation, its role in solving networking bottlenecks for blockchains & how Marlin Cache accelerates DApp queries for DeFi at KBW2020.
https://koreablockchainweek.com/watch/-MQQhpEz9IdPFjn-2FNq
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347600024645996545
Hear Prateek talk about Marlin's incentivized network layer propagation, its role in solving networking bottlenecks for blockchains & how Marlin Cache accelerates DApp queries for DeFi at KBW2020.
https://koreablockchainweek.com/watch/-MQQhpEz9IdPFjn-2FNq
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347600024645996545
Absolutely ❤️ the support that the Polkadot community is showing us!
Participation by DOT stakers and validators in Marlin FlowMint has reached record highs! 🔥
💰 +$339m in total DOT bonded
🧙 100+ validators
Stake DOT. Earn MPond. 💯
Just getting started? Our handy guide explains how you can participate in FlowMint with Polkadot and other supported chains - Binance Smart Chain, Cosmos, Fantom, IRISnet, Matic Network and NEAR Protocol.
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1351194794878504966
Participation by DOT stakers and validators in Marlin FlowMint has reached record highs! 🔥
💰 +$339m in total DOT bonded
🧙 100+ validators
Stake DOT. Earn MPond. 💯
Just getting started? Our handy guide explains how you can participate in FlowMint with Polkadot and other supported chains - Binance Smart Chain, Cosmos, Fantom, IRISnet, Matic Network and NEAR Protocol.
RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1351194794878504966