Flow Ledger Delegation Guide

<p>Crypto-collectibles are currently gaining a lot of traction and the demand for non-fungible tokens (NFT) spiked with<a href="https://nonfungible.com/market/history"> over $2M weekly volume</a>. <strong>NFTs represent a proof-of-ownership for a unique asset that can be used to exchange in-game assets, to define copyrights for publishers or proof of authenticity by digital art creators.</strong> In 2017, the Cryptokitties game on Ethereum was the most popular blockchain enabled consumer application that revealed the hidden potential of crypto-collectibles. Three years later, it still remains one of the largest NFT games by sales volume.</p><p>Due to Ethereum scaling limitations and aggravating user experience, the team behind CryptoKitties spent the last two years in R&amp;D to build a new blockchain platform that could address mainstream consumer scale needs, while offering an unparalleled user experience. Flow is a new blockchain built for the next generation of apps, games, and the digital assets that power them.</p><p>Flow is designed for better user experience with multi-role architecture that allows the achievement of speed improvements without sharding, ensuring composability of applications. Resource oriented programming and upgradeable smart-contracts provide flexibility for developers. Flow uses proof-of-stake achieving relatively fast transaction finality. Though Flow is a multi-purpose general blockchain not limited to any specific use-case, <strong>it has the potential to become the leading platform for building decentralized gaming applications and power the growth of crypto-collectible economies.</strong></p><p><em>With that in mind, P2P Validator is excited to announce the launch of Collector, Verification and Consensus nodes to increase Flow decentralization as part of our commitment to support the development of open and censorship-resistant collectible economies.</em></p><p><strong>If you are interested in staking with us follow a few simple steps from our <a href="https://economy.p2p.org/flow-ledger-delegation-guide/?utm_source=flow_annoncement&amp;utm_campaign=flow_guide">staking guide</a>.</strong></p><p>Our team has extensive experience in setting up secure infrastructure. P2P Validator maintains high-availability nodes and provides secure staking services for the most groundbreaking projects in the blockchain space. <strong>We are an early Flow investor having our own skin in the game.</strong> The node infrastructure is under advanced monitoring with 24/7 technical support, backups and alerts.</p><h3 id="about-flow"><strong>About Flow</strong></h3><p>Flow is a novel developer-friendly blockchain that is perfectly fitted for games and digital assets powering collectible economies. It has multi-role architecture improving transaction speed and throughput. It is built by<a href="https://www.dapperlabs.com/"> the Dapper Labs</a> team that is behind<a href="https://www.cryptokitties.co/"> Cryptokitties</a> and<a href="https://www.nbatopshot.com/"> NBA Top Shot</a>. It is supported by notable venture funds including Google Ventures, USV, a16z, Venrock and many others.</p><p>Learn more by visiting the <a href="https://www.onflow.org/#">Flow Website</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/flow_blockchain"> Twitter</a> or<a href="https://t.me/flow_blockchain"> Telegram</a>. If you’re a developer, take a look at<a href="https://www.onflow.org/play"> Flow playground</a> and join the discussion on<a href="https://discord.gg/JuZY76"> Discord</a>.</p><h3 id="about-p2p-validator"><strong>About P2P Validator</strong></h3><p><a href="https://p2p.org/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=flow_annoncement">P2P Validator</a> is a world-leading staking provider with the best industry security practices and proven expertise. We provide comprehensive due-diligence of digital assets and offer only top-notch staking opportunities. At the time of publishing, <strong>more than 350 million of USD value is staked with P2P Validator by over 4000 delegators across 15+ networks.</strong> We are early Flow investors with a goal to provide the long term support for the ecosystem.</p><hr><p><strong>Stake FLOW with us:</strong> <a href="https://economy.p2p.org/flow-ledger-delegation-guide/?utm_source=flow_annoncement&amp;utm_campaign=flow_guide">Ledger Delegation Guide</a></p><p><strong>Web:</strong><a href="https://p2p.org/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_campaign=flow_annoncement"> https://p2p.org</a></p><p><strong>Twitter:</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/p2pvalidator"> @p2pvalidator</a></p><p><strong>Telegram:</strong><a href="https://t.me/P2Pstaking"><strong> </strong>https://t.me/P2Pstaking</a></p>

<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://economy.p2p.org/content/images/2020/12/02--1-.png" class="kg-image" alt srcset="https://economy.p2p.org/content/images/size/w600/2020/12/02--1-.png 600w, https://economy.p2p.org/content/images/size/w1000/2020/12/02--1-.png 1000w, https://economy.p2p.org/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 publishing, more than 2.9 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 4500 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>