Solana Staking Trends

    Question:

    What percentage of the average Solana's user portfolio is staked Solana? Create a visualization showing % SOL staked over time.

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    Are new wallets more or less likely to stake Solana than established wallets? What type of wallet activities tend to lead to a wallet staking Solana? Are there any noticeable user trends that lead to staking with Marinade specifically?

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    Methodology:

    • In this dashboard we will be looking over:
      • Number of transactions on stake vs Others over time
      • New vs Old wallet dominance
      • Marinade vs Others staking Trends
    • All the above data has been curated from the events table and that would be used to get further information.
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    Summary:

    • Number of daily transactions staked vs Others
    • Number of transactions staked vs Others distribution
    • Marinade vs Others Distribution
    • Marinade vs Others Normalised view
    • Daily Transactions Marinade vs OThers
    • Action Distribution Marinade vs Others
    • Old vs New Wallet share

    Explanation & Insights:

    • Marinade just has about 10% or less common of all transactions on Stakes . That is, whoever is staking SOL has 1 in a 10 chance or less that the user is also staking on Marinade

    • At it’s best, (from normalised view), the Marinade dominance has been as high as 13% but has been reduced over time

    • Most of the transactions (about 85%) belong to swap while 9-10% belong to transfer and only 6% or less go to

      stakers

    • New Wallets here are those wallets which have made their first transavction in the last 90 days

    • Among the wallets, new wallets have a 36% share in the total stakes made in the past 90 days

    • About 1k-2k transactions are made towards staking on a daily basis

    • In the past 90 days only, about 100k transactions to stake have taken place


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    Conclusions:

    In this dashboard we saw a lot of data ranging from the type of transactions to the action distribution to the comparison of Marinade vs Others

    Here are some quick highlights:

    • Other transactions have a better position than stake
    • Marinade stakers are only about 10% of that of SOL stakers or less
    • Old wallets have a sizeable share when it comes to staking as compared to new wallets