Introduction

• Staking means that you hold your tokens so that you can confirm transactions and support the network. In exchange for holding crypto and powering the network, you get rewarded. You can create passive income for yourself by staking. In addition to the staking bonus, when the price of your token or coin increases, you also receive additional profit from there. Of course, you should know that not all cryptocurrencies support staking
• The Ethereum blockchain has been working on its transition from Proof of Work (PoW) to PoS for several years. Along this path, many hardforks and softforks have been done, to pave the way for this transition; Because this type of transfer causes a total change in the infrastructure of a network and it cannot be done easily and quickly.
• The Beacon Chain introduced proof-of-stake to the Ethereum ecosystem.
• It was merged with the original Ethereum proof-of-work chain in September 2022.
• The Beacon Chain introduced the consensus logic and block gossip protocol which now secures Ethereum.
• The Merge phase itself has two hardforks, in the first fork miners are removed from the network and stakers take their place and start processing Ethereum main network transactions, and the second fork will be implemented about a month later, in this phase , the possibility of withdrawing the 32 ETHs that the validators had deposited into the Ethereum 2 smart contract in the Beacon chain phase is opened.

Ankr

Ankr is a staking-based platform and calls itself StakeFi. The Ankr platform was created with the aim of making easy access to ways to earn money in the crypto market for everyone. Ankr platform is trying to make the use of blockchain and its capabilities simple and cheap for users by creating a cloud space.

Staked.us

Staked.us operates the most secure, performant, and cost-effective block production nodes for decentralized PoS protocols on behalf of institutional investors. their multi-tier signing and listening node architecture delivers stakeholders the ideal combination of security, scalability and decentralization.[3] In addition to Ehereum network, staked.us also supports several other networks.

binnace

Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies.It was founded in 2017 and is registered in the Cayman Islands.

kraken

Kraken is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange and bank, founded in 2011. It was one of the first bitcoin exchanges to be listed on Bloomberg

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I compare Stake on two platforms, Ankr and Staked.us, with exchanges, binnace and kraken, and check things like the following Total ETH Staked dex whit cex Total Number of Stakes in dex whit cex Total Number of Unique Stakers dex whit cex Total ETH Staked ($USD) in dex whit cex Overview of ETH Staked Volume in dex and cex Number of ETH Stakes per Month dex and cex whit dex Number of Unique ETH Stakers per Month dex and cex whit dex Monthly Staking Volume dex and cex whit dex Top 10 Stakers based on Staking Count

Total ETH Staked cex in two exchanges, Binance and Kraken, is equal to 1.2 million, which is more than the total ETH Staked dex in Ankr and staked.us

The Total Number of Stakes dex is more than the Total Number of Stakes dex. I think it is because the minimum amount of stake in the exchange is more than the decentralized exchange and there is also a possibility that the stake is done by the exchange.

The Total Number of Unique Stakers in the exchange is less than the other two platforms, and I think it is because the exchange stakes itself in different ranges of values.

Total ETH Staked ($USD) in cex with a value of 2.12B is much higher than the other two platforms which have a value of 0.67B It seems that most of the crypto activists are inclined to stake Ethereum in the exchange.

• The total number of in the exchange is very low compared to the platform, maybe the reason is the limit of the amount of stake in the exchange, which is high.
• Total Number of Unique in Binance exchange is one. It seems that all Ethereums are staked in one address, but there are many in the platform because each user stakes in his own address.

The top users of platform and exchange

platform

• Stake.fish → 0x61c808d82a3ac53231750dadc13c777b59310bd9 → 41

• Ankr → 0x870f64e73e7d2dc5022b4b74e58c323b3148a984 → 42

  exchange

• binnace →0x2f47a1c2db4a3b78cda44eade915c3b19107ddcc →1

• kraken→0x267be1c1d684f78cb4f6a176c4911b741e4ffdc0→306

Conclusion

The number of stakes on the platform is less compared to the amount of staked Ethereum, on the other hand, the number of staked Ethereum in the exchange is low, but its volume is high. In the exchange, based on the amount of Ethereum staked, based on its value, it is staked in several addresses, because the stake is done by the exchange itself, but in the platform, the stake is done directly by the user. cummulative eth vol It has grown well on the platform, but after some time, the slope of its movement has been fixed, but on the exchange, this slope is still increasing. It seems that the desire of crypto activists for stakes on the exchange is more than on the platform. For convenience in typing and summarizing, the word dex is used instead of platform