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Incentivized RPC Pools: December '24 To January '25 Report
Incentive Pools
Lava Foundation
Jan 17, 2025
Lava is the first modular data network that scales RPC & APIs for rollups. Add any chain's RPC module to Lava - the network of node operators will optimize, scale and decentralize the traffic.
While contributing to a more performant and chain-agnostic infrastructure layer for web3, Incentivized Public RPC also gives anyone an opportunity to monetize their nodes.
This is a summary of April activity for Incentivized Public RPC. You can read previous summaries below:
Evmos:
🥇crypto.worm
🥈Impulse-Asia-HK
🥉LAVA555
Axelar:
🥇dig
🥈Albinos
🥉crypto.worm
NEAR:
🥇Impulse
🥈Pathrocknetwork
🥉dig
These providers excelled by servicing many requests for users, while maintaining low latency, high uptime and sync 💪
This month, there have been multiple active providers who were participating with a higher stake than the allowed limit, across all chains. This can help them gain an unfair advantage over other providers which is why
Lava Foundation and Evmos agreed to enforce a penalty in the reward calculation.The penalty is a CU reduction equal to half of the overstaking rate, up to 50%. So for example if a provider had 50% more stake than the allowed amount, they received 25% CU reduction. In the case that a provider crossed the limit with multiple providers, the penalty was a 15% reduction across all their providers.
These penalties are only a warning at this stage, and will be the same across April-May. We ask all providers to self-enforce the 50,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000 (for only a handful of specific partners) staking limits as future penalties will be much more significant.
Total relays: 235M relays
Total CUs: 4.2B compute units
Total rewards distributed: 149,066 EVMOS
Number of providers: 73
Highest payment: 13,154 EVMOS
Average payment: 2,042 EVMOS
Total relays: 1.15B relays
Total CUs: 11.4B compute units
Number of providers: 95
Highest payment: 480 AXL
Average payment: 54 AXL
Total distributed: 5,200 $AXL
Total relays: 2.7B relays
Total CUs: 39.2B compute units
Number of providers: 63
Highest payment: 276 NEAR
Average payment: 47 $NEAR
Total distributed: 3000 $NEAR
Lava works with blockchains and rollups to make their public RPC unified, faster, more resilient.
Learn more about Incentivized Public RPC in our introduction article.
