QuarkChain Staking 1.0 A DeFi Product Helps Miners and Holders Achieve Coop.

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Today let us proudly introduce QuarkChain Staking 1.0, a product that offers a way for miners to find the staked QKC tokens and the QKC holders to get extra income.

In addition to improve the flexibility through heterogeneous sharding technology, QuarkChain’s unique consensus algorithm, PoSW (Proof of Staked Work), becomes the basis to realize a cutting-edge DeFi system, which enables a division-and-cooperation mechanism that miners and token holders can work together on mining efficiently and share the profit afterward.

Unlike the high inflation rate of PoS with an obvious Matthew effect, PoSW still requires miners to compete with hash power. The total mining amount of QKC is 4 billion, and ~245 million has been mined in the first year. The annual mining output will be fixed to 88% of the previous year. that is to say, the new-generated token rate by PoSW will be much lower than PoS.

PoSW allows miners to enjoy the benefits of lower mining difficulty by staking mainnet QKC tokens. After the mining function on QuarkChain mainnet is enabled, miners and token holders have spontaneously formed a cooperative relationship that benefits both of them. However, a lot of small token holders are hard to meet the minimum requirement of the staking amount set by miners, which prevents them from participating in staking activities. After the QuarkChain Staking 1.0 smart contract is launched, multiple small and medium-sized token holders can stake QKC together into the same contract which cumulatively meets the requirement of minimum staking amount. More QKC holders can participate and share mining rewards, and the miners can also find enough staking tokens more easily.

Reward base: The reward is based on the efficiency difference between QuarkChain mainnet staking mining and non-deposit mining.

Miner participation: Minors provide mining machines, deploy the contracts according to the consensus, and set a revenue share ratio.

Token holder participation: Token holders choose a credible contract with official verification and transfer the mainnet QKC into the contract address after confirming the profit-sharing percentage with miner after confirming the profit-sharing percentage with miner(s).

Return ratio: It should be negotiated by both parties.

Earnings acquisition: Token holders deposit the returns into the contract real-time, and withdraw the tokens at the agreed time with the miner(s).
Redemption: After negotiating with miners, shut down the mining machine for redemption.

This cooperation model is simple and user-friendly. The token holders only need officially verified contracts and QKC tokens on the mainnet. There is no need for other tokens during the whole process. The currently launched contract is our first available version. QuarkChain will make further improvements on it, and bring to our users a dApp with customization and matching functions in the coming two quarters. Then miners can issue staking smart contracts more easily, and token holders can directly select contracts on the dApp page and complete the deposit with fewer steps.
The most important thing to the public chain is the forward-looking layout of specific functions. QuarkChain has realized the value of DeFi and joined in this game from the first day we set off. Now, we are creating future DeFi with the eco-partners from various fields together.
In the next generation of DeFi, QuarkChain will achieve more breakthroughs in efficiency, ease of use, and security.

You can learn more about Staking Pool Contract User Guide in official Quarkchain Medium page.