🥳 A massive thank you to everyone who participated in our recent competition where you told us why you love Elrond! We really wish we could have picked every single one of you as a winner as every answer was amazing.

That said, we've internally gone through each one 3 or 4 times and the following 3 people have won the top prize of .5 EGLD each.

@Atoms_to_Bits, Emilian Calina & @lucky_chip 👊🏼

On top this we've have also at random picked 24 people to win a Helios Staking hoodie or a T-Shirt. Those are as follows:

Hoodies

Martijn @SnowCrash1992 @Anfloresg @cmarafusta @warrior90902 @Hmn321 diamond Hands @TitiEgld @DrElrond123 Cosmin Stoican @jbizzle001 @Sma3068

T-shirts

Sed Ionut @aurisekera25 Wissam Mel @Yugo_13 @CMToka @AndreGSN @Nina612 @Frozenleaf @sku_ares @MafteiClaudiu @NechePrince @cleliver

Congrats to all the winners & in order to claim your prize please DM @cryptokev79 to organise it. For the Hoodies & T-Shirts please allow us the week to organise the sending of these.

✅ UPDATE

Just an update here from us.

We are waiting on the official response from the Elrond Team before making any decisions. Last night we had a very productive call that stretched late into the evening. We expect the official plan of action will be released over the next day or two.

Stay tuned & as promised Kevin will schedule a Live Stream after the plan is released.

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨

As you may have noticed all staking providers have increased their CAP's. We have followed suit based on a positive solution that will be communicated by the team.

For now please enjoy the extra room & stake your $EGLD. After the official annoucement in the next day or two @CryptoKev79 will do the live stream to answer all your questions.

The most important piece here is that now every Staking Provider will be on the same level playing field with similar returns.

Overwhelming demand for eGold staking phase 3.

1.3bn staked, w/ 26.000+ users securing the network.

15k users staked on their mobile via Maiar

This is how the next wave begins.🔥

It's time. Elrond foundational nodes make room for community nodes.

Find out more: https://elrond.com/blog/accelerated-decentralization-more-community-nodes

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1376942917269479430?s=20

🚨Helios $EGLD Pool Update 🚨

As you know we've been waiting for an official announcement from the Elrond team in regards to the high demand for delegation & community nodes availability from April 6th.

🥳 That day is here & we could not be happier!

What this means for us:

✅ 22 of 26 nodes on our network will become active validators. This is the current waitlist numbers which most likely improve.

✅ The cut off is 1394 nodes and our remaining 4 are no higher than spot 1400 on the waitlist. This means we will very quickly see these active. This is great news!

✅ In regards to top up / compounding this means we will be able to gradually add space as new nodes become active until we reach the original CAP of 250k EGLD or 100 nodes.

✅ We'll be keeping our top up amounts in line with the Elrond Network at 831.8 EGLD per node and only add CAP to our pool as our new nodes become active to preserve the APY.

The Timeline

✅ New nodes are scheduled to go live on April 6th but keep in mind that it may take up to 5 days after this to ensure the network security is not compromised.

✅ This means for the first 5 days until the new nodes are released we won't have a high APY. This is unfortunate but just a small bump in the road.

Live Stream

Tomorrow we will announce a time for the live stream with @Cryptokev79; however, it will most likely be on Thursday at 1500 UTC.

Please don't hesitate to ask us any questions now in the main chat.

The bottom-line is this is a solid result for the Helios Pool & the entire Elrond community!

No one is left behind or will there be big APY gaps between agencies.

Together we are strong! 👊🏼

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1376966035144867847

✅ With the recent announcement from the Elrond Network team our Founder Kevin Lydon (@cryptokev79) will be doing a live stream on YouTube answer any questions and discuss the next steps for the Helios staking pool.

Tune in: April 1st, 2021 at 15:00 UTC

This will be recorded for those you who can't make it.

https://youtu.be/Fe97m5s50mY

✅ Helios Staking 🛠 TESTNET Version: T1.1.39.0

We've all been been waiting for this one: ESDT & NFTs!

⏱ Epoch 99 - Thursday, April 01, 13:00 UTC

✅ ESDT & NFTs

$EGLD 🔥

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1377328136321388546?s=19

⏰Reminder, in just over 2 hours time @Cryptokev79 will be doing a live stream at the link below to discuss the @HeliosStaking $EGLD delegation pool.

👀See you all there at 15:00UTC 👇🏼

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1377603489195560968

https://youtu.be/Fe97m5s50mY

✅ @Cryptokev79 is now live streaming discussing our $EGLD pool!

https://youtu.be/Fe97m5s50mY

🥳 It's with great pleasure today that we announce @HeliosStaking is LIVE on @InjectiveLabs
Equinox staking!

You can now stake your $INJ with us here: https://staking.injective.network/validators

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1377645250936705026

https://medium.com/heliosstaking/helios-staking-is-live-on-injective-protocols-equinox-staking-fd8b128e2d2b

📺 Check out this interview that @cryptokev79 had the pleasure of doing with fellow $EGLD community member @jbizzle001!

They talk about #Elrond, #Maiar & everything in between! It's well worth it! 👊🏼

Watch it now 👇🏻

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyskM3N_NZU

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1378031179883028482

✅ Helios Staking Running 🛠 TESTNET Version: T1.1.42.0

This release includes some fixes for block processing issues and minor ESDT & NFT improvements.

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1378602877023883265?s=19

Hey guys!

Let's make some noise and leave a comment with your chosen staking providers!

https://twitter.com/getMaiar/status/1379023378653319168?s=19

🚨Update on Hoodies and T-shirts.

The shipping bags we ordered showed up today but were not shipping bags! We got sent a box of Kleenex tissues by accident. 😳

We should have the shipping bags within the next day or two & we'll ship them right away.

Apologies for the delay.

📊 Helios Staking Delegation Update & Top-up Schedule

Today was the first Epoch for eligible rewards and we got some, albeit quite small. We have one active node again this epoch so will get rewards tomorrow and one new node moved from the wait list.

As you know there is a slow roll out of adding new nodes into the system that is happening up to April 10th and after which we'll be at full scale. Once we’ve confirmed that all our nodes are fully staked and not in the waitlist we will release more top-up until we reach 831 EGLD per node or 21,906 EGLD total extra top up.

Schedule:

✅ 10,660 EGLD at Epoch 254 April 11th, 15:00 UTC.

✅ 500 EGLD per day between Epoch 255 to Epoch 276 at 15:00 UTC.

Initially we will do a bigger increase as we have a lot of demand from the community for people who have not yet got into our pool and would like to. It’s important we grow our pool and decentralise it with new delegators. The second reason is so we can get 4 new nodes into the waitlist right away.

We believe the above is the fairest way for the community and build our pool sustainably at the same time. After we reach the top up level we will then have to wait as each new node becomes active to add more. Hopefully with the above new nodes we will have some coming active before the end of the 22 day slow release schedule.

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1379806745128751114

🚨Helios Staking $EGLD Delegation Update

Hey guys just a quick update here on the status of our pool and wait list nodes. We currently now have 8/26 of our nodes out of the wait list and 5 active today. Tomorrow will be our best day to date for rewards. 😀

That said the Elrond foundational nodes have not yet been un-staked as the team have had their hands full this week with the amazing news and Maiar Exchange. We can confirm these nodes will be unstaked with a few days delay.

As a result we will be amending our top up release schedule to be in line with these nodes becoming active. We have yet to get a confirmed date but as soon as we do we will update here.

Apologies for any inconvenience and delays! It was a monster week for Elrond so it's understandable that this is delayed slightly.

🚨Helios Staking $EGLD Delegation Update

Just a quick update on things. As you know we had a slight delay with the Elrond Foundational nodes not being un-staked. For the next few days the team have started un-staking 121 nodes per day.

With that said we are happy to report that today we’ve had 7 new nodes added to the active list. This means we now have 15/26 nodes active and 11 in the wait-list! 😊

If all goes according to plan we should be at full capacity by the end of the week at which time we will proceed with our slow release schedule of new $EGLD delegation space. We will give you a full 24 hour notification period before we start the release.

Updates on the Hoodies / T-Shirts: We finally got the proper shipping bags in the mail today and will be shipping these tomorrow after we get them all packed this evening.

Again apologies for any inconvenience and the delays!

As we know this is just the beginning and we thank you for being part of the Helios Staking family, you guys are the reason we do this!

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1381978111059890182

✅ Helios Staking Update

First off and foremost we wanted to let you the Hoodies / T-Shirts have been sent out. Apologies for the delay.

Secondly and more importantly all of our nodes have now been moved off the waitlist putting us at full strength. It will take a day or two from this Epoch for our nodes to become eligible. So rewards will improve.

That said we are going to give a 48 hour notice to the start of our slow release schedule which will start at 15:00 UTC on April 17th.

We will release more top-up until we reach 831 EGLD per node or 21,906 EGLD total extra top up.

Schedule:

✅ 10,660 EGLD at Epoch 260 April 17th, 15:00 UTC..

✅ 500 EGLD per day between Epoch 261 to Epoch 282 at 15:00 UTC each day.

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1382680968729878531

🚨Reminder 🚨

At 15:00 UTC today we will add 10,660 EGLD for new stakers 😊

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1383363096798916608

✅ We are happy to announce that we have now opened up space for 10660 $EGLD to our #Elrond Delegation Smart Contract.

Use any of the below:

https://elrond.heliosstaking.com
https://wallet.elrond.com
https://maiar.com

Get in fam! 👊🏼

RT: https://twitter.com/HeliosStaking/status/1383435153503002624

✅ 500 EGLD as been added to the Delegation contract.

Tomorrow we will update the release schedule and @cryptokev79 will do live stream Tuesday at the latest, if not tomorrow.