Over the previous week (03/10-03/16), the Pocket Network protocol successfully relayed over 1.5 Billion application requests (up by 7.1%) & settled at 36k staked nodes (up by 2.4%)! Weekly Relay Recap & Analysis 👋Relays from FUSE Mainnet saw a massive increase of 570% this week, achieving 121.6M application requests.The most reliable RPC endpoint for the Polygon networkThe second key driver of relays was Polygon Mainnet, increasing by 355% this week, requesting 225M relays compared to 49M the previous week. This was largely due to Pocket being added to the networks RPC endpoint aggregator across several different types of providers.“There is reason to believe that as our service continues to improve, that we'll get even more relays coming to the network.” Says Richard Cuellar-Lopez, our Head of Marketplace.The node infrastructure continued to grow with another 832 nodes getting added in this week.

The average daily relays were up by 7.1% compared to the previous week at around 220M relays.Over 6.5B relays have been processed in total throughout the last four weeks. The exact figures are displayed in the table below:

For those interested in diving deeper into the metrics, one can find them on C0D3R’s Pocket Network charts.The pie chart below shows the distribution of all POKT rewards minted over the past week between the service nodes, block producers, and the Pocket DAO:

At the time of this writing, Pocket Network now has 36,050 nodes!

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