APR refers to the simple interest accrued from a particular investment over a 1 year period. APY refers to the compounded interest accrued from a particular investment over a 1 year period. APY reflects more accurately the expected yearly returns of that investment. More info about compounded interest here.

The rewards can vary each day, they are not fixed. Every day only 50% of the nodes are generating rewards. This is how Elrond blockchain works. So there are days with higher rewards and days with smaller rewards. But on a timeframe of 3-4 weeks you will see the reward rate will be closed to 18%-19%. Here is the longer explanation: Each shard has 800 validators assigned to it. 400 are eligible and 400 are waiting. The ones waiting are showing with a clock in the explorer. Round time, is the time measured in seconds required to create successive blocks on the Elrond blockchain (6 seconds). In each round, a new consensus group is selected using a randomness source that can be neither predicted, nor influenced. The consensus group consists of 63 members. So, it follows that not all validators are in a consensus group at all times. Validators who are in consensus must do the work required to prepare and sign blocks, and must complete the work within 6 seconds. A rating system is used where the rating is increased slightly each time work is successfully submitted, or the rating is decreased slightly if the work is not submitted on time. The default rating for new nodes deployed to the network is 50. Rating will increase over a few days until it will finally reach 100. If a validator node goes offline, it will obviously not be doing it’s work, and so the rating will decrease. If the rating is ever decreased to 10 or less, the validator is taken out of service and a new one is taken from the validator waiting queue. The epoch time is 24 hours. At the end of each epoch, 80 validators from each shard (total 320) are randomly selected and shuffled randomly into each of the 4 shards. The validators that were shuffled are put on the shard waiting list (showing with a clock in the explorer). Validators will spend 5 days on the waiting list until being selected again to be eligible. During the waiting time, the validator details page in the explorer will show “not in consensus”. Over time, the amount of time spent in the shard waiting list and the amount of time spent in the shard working will average out to 50/50. This is the normal operation and lifecycle of a validator node. As long as the rating is increasing toward 100, the node is doing its job and rewards are being generated and credited at the end of each epoch where the node was active and not waiting.

On 30th of March, Elrond announced some changes in regards to their upcoming network upgrade. Due to increase demand from the community, more nodes than anticipated initially were receiving delegated stakes from the community. New validator slots and nodes were quickly filled by the community. In order to accommodate this demand, Elrond will reduce the number of nodes run by them, making more room for nodes run by staking providers and the community. This is very good news for everybody and it basically mean that we will be able to provide an APR of around 20% as initially promised. Based on this information we are able to run some estimation on how things will look like. By running this estimations we can now say that: PrimalBlock is offering the best APR on Elrond network and is one of biggest staking providers in terms of amount staked to us. Here are some stats for those interested (as of 1st of April 2021): Contract Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqx8llllsxavffq APR: 19.93% Max delegation cap: 160000 eGLD (96.5% filled) Nodes: 60 active + 1 staked Delegators: 713 Total active stake: 154467 eGLD Top-up per node: 74 eGLD Service fee: 10.00% Thank you for your ongoing support and contribution.

On 26th of March, Elrond network was upgraded to support more nodes (an increase from 2169 to 3200 nodes) and staking pools, so that eGold holders can delegate their stake towards different staking providers, like us. In less than 24 hours, we see already that more than 250 people delegated to our staking pool: PrimalBlock, more than 140 000 eGold ($21m at current price). The additional 1031 nodes will gradually start becoming active on 5th of April. Here is the exact timeline: On April 5 ~14:30 UTC at epoch 249 the nodes from the Validators Queue and newly deployed staking pool will become Validators and be placed on the waiting list. This will happen in the order they have been added in the Validators Queue and staking pools, which is in effect a single queue, serving new nodes on a first-come, first-serve basis. On April 6 ~14:30 UTC at epoch 250, 320 new nodes (80 for each shard) become Active Validators. On April 7 ~14:30 UTC at epoch 251, these nodes distribute their rewards towards their stake owners, whether directly staked or delegated, in effect producing the first rewards for Staking Phase 3. Also at this date and time, the next 320 new nodes become Active Validators, and so on. PrimalBlock has right now 100 validators nodes prepared to accept staking delegations. From those 100 nodes, around 56 nodes (at the time of the writing) are staked and on the Validators Queue. We estimate that around April 9 and April 10, around 40-50 nodes to become active validators. This mean on April 10 we expect first staking rewards to become available to be claimed. On medium term, our target is to provide an APR around 20%. The APR depends on many factors, some on our direct control, some we do not control, like how the queue will progress or how other validators will choose to deal with top-ups, etc. On short term, what we will do, so that we are as close as possible to our target APR, is to lower our fee if needed (even to 0% for a period of time) or un-stake some funds and nodes so that the optimal ratio between active validators nodes, amount staked and top-ups is reached. We expect in the next 2-3 weeks things to stabilize and have a better understanding where we are. Our promise is that we will optimize things so that we can offer the most competitive APR possible without compromising security and stability of our setup and of Elrond network. Thank you all for your support and trust! PrimalBlock Team.

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