Weekly Churns

There is no a consistent trend for the churns amount per week.

• Normally, the range for number of churns per week is between 16 to 30 per week.

• However, there is also some weeks where the total amount of churns below 10.

• The highest churn amount can reached up to 36 per week.

Daily Churns

The chart above is showing the daily amount of churning events happened on Thorchain.

• First two months of MCCN launched, there are mostly 5 churns per day, on the highest day, there are 18 churns per day.

• There are a halt of network since end of July 2021 to September 2021. Hence, no churning events happened on the period of time.

• Then coming to January 2022, on average there are 8 to 10 churns per day.

• The highest amount of churns happened a day is 20.

Node Churning on Thorchain

Churning Out

On every churn, the network several nodes to be churned out of the network which usually will be back in the network again. Multiple nodes may be selected for a churn out event in a single churning event but never more than 1/3rd of the current validator set. The criterion the network will take into account is the following:

1. Requests to leave the network (self-removal)

2.Banned by other nodes (network-removal)

3. How long an active nodes has been committing blocks (oldest gets removed)

4. Bad behavior (accrued slash points for poor node operation)

Churning In

Same as churn out event, churning in may select one or more nodes to be churned into the network but never adds more than one to the total. Which nodes that are selected are purely by validator bond size. Larger bond nodes are selected over lower bond nodes.

Monthly Churns

• Most of the months having around 90 in total of churns happened.

• There are months where is no churning event at all due to the hack event and the network halted.

• The lowest churn count on a month is only recorded with a total of 22 only.