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Autonity is a public blockchain built on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and utilizes a proof-of-stake mechanism to facilitate the decentralized clearing of smart derivatives contracts.
Its goal is to transform any market risk that participants want to speculate on or hedge against into a smart derivative product, enabling fully decentralized trading and price discovery within its ecosystem.
Proof-of-Stake is a newer form of consensus algorithm that relies on a stake rather than electrical power. This makes it more efficient and environmentally adapted. By offering a stake in the form of locked tokens into a smart contract. This stake is used to secure the chain and validate blocks.
By locking a protocol’s native tokens (ie NTN) to give “validators” the right to secure a chain. Validators propose new blocks or attest other validators’ blocks, gaining rewards for doing so.
Staking is one of the safest and most predictable ways to get rewarded in the crypto space as the value originates from the blockchain’s native currency inflation and a share of transaction fees. You help secure the network and get rewarded by staking your NTN.
If you do not stake, your asset's token share will be diluted among other people’s tokens that are being staked and accumulating new tokens into the network.
No staking rewards rate is available yet for Autonity which is currently in testnet phase.
Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake NTN, and to whitelabel NTN staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, data, and commission management.
We are serving thousands of businesses worldwide so that everyone can securely and seamlessly. Our clients can stake their tokens from our dashboard, a hardware wallet, a browser wallet, a B2B custodian, a crypto exchange, or just their favorite investment app. Kiln makes staking NTN easy, secure, and accessible to everyone.
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is a type of consensus mechanism used to validate cryptocurrency transactions. Through PoS, validators can contribute to the block production of a chain while keeping environmental concerns to a minimum, which is becoming an increasingly large issue in Proof-of-Work.
By staking capital rather than energy, validators risk losing a portion of their value and future potential for staking by misbehaving while creating blocks. This incentives collaboration and fair practices while validating information in a similar way that PoW has with incentives and punishments to curtail malicious activity in the consensus process.
NTN rewards become claimable at the end of each epoch on Autonity and accumulate until the delegator manually claims them.
Yes, rewards compound when staking NTN.
The Autonity protocol's Penalty Absorbing Stake (PAS) model prioritizes slashing a validator’s self-bonded stake before affecting any delegated stake when penalties are applied for accountability issues. A validator self-bonded stake is slashed before any delegated stake.
Delegated stakes are only slashed if the self-bonded stake is insufficient to cover the penalty, with both unbonding and bonded delegated stakes being slashed proportionally if necessary.
There is no minimum stake amount.
While you may maintain self-custody of your staked NTN (ideally using a Ledger hardware wallet), you may also choose a third-party custodian to control the withdrawal of your staked NTN (i.e. Fireblocks).
In the context of Proof-of-Stake blockchains, the gross reward rate (GRR) refers to the total or gross amount of rewards earned from staking before deducting any fees or expenses. This is a reward rate that fluctuates with the operations of the protocol and the performance of validators, it is not set by Kiln. The net reward rate (NRR), on the other hand, takes into account the deductions or expenses, providing a measure of the actual rewards received after subtracting fees or costs.
You can learn more about Autonity on their website and official documentation.