Validators, rich list and statistics
Three pages that describe the chain as a whole rather than any single transaction. None of them asks anything of you.
Validators
Validators are the computers that produce the blocks. Blockchain and then Validators shows the whole set, ranked by voting power, which is the amount of L2P staked behind each one.
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Validator | Its name and address |
| Voting power | How much L2P is staked behind it, and what share of the total that is |
| Commission | What it keeps of the rewards it earns for the people who staked with it |
| Status | Active, Candidate or Jailed |
Active means it is in the set and producing blocks. Candidate means it is registered and waiting to be elected, which happens when enough stake sits behind it. Jailed means it was punished for being offline or for misbehaving, and the page shows when it comes out.
A validator's own page adds its rank, its share of the network, its maximum commission, when it started and the addresses belonging to it.
This is a read-only view. If you want to put your own L2P behind a validator and earn a share of its rewards, that happens on the staking site, and Delegate to a validator walks through it.
The rich list
Rich list ranks addresses by how much L2P they hold, with the circulating supply, the largest holder and the average balance at the top.
It is interesting, and it is easy to misread. Three things to keep in mind.
One person is not one address. Anyone can hold as many addresses as they like, so the top of the list is not a list of the richest people.
Some addresses are not people at all. Exchanges and contracts hold coins on behalf of many others, and one of those addresses can represent thousands of holders.
A balance is not wealth. It is what an address holds at this moment, nothing more.
Statistics
Blockchain and then Statistics shows how the chain has behaved over time, either day by day for the last month or hour by hour for the last week.
| Chart | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Transactions | How much is happening on the chain |
| Average block time | How quickly blocks are being produced. A steady line is a healthy chain |
| Average gas price | What it has been costing to send a transaction |
| Burnt fees | How much L2P has been destroyed by the fee burn |
| Block rewards | What validators have earned |
| Active addresses | How many addresses did something that day |
| Gas used | Total work done by the chain |
| Contracts created | How many new contracts were deployed |
If a chart is empty, that period simply has nothing recorded yet.