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📣Intro

Shortly after mainnet launch I posted my thoughts (Incognito Mainnet Launch) on the launch and the perception issues that it brought forth. Although not much has change on the perception front there seems to be a fair amount of people looking for more details on statistics of the platform. So I thought I would take a shot at pulling what information is available into a more comprehensive form. Getting details for statistical purposes seems to be a challenge at times so I have referenced what details I could and will provide rationale of any assumptions I have made. I have referenced the whitepaper¹, but have tried to verify with the Incognito team anything from there as I have been informed² that it is no longer accurate and not being updated.
For this exercise I will be using Epoch 388 since it is the most recent completed epoch when I started this post.

📊Stats

💰Rewards

🎯Per Epoch

      Total Shard Reward = 32 validators³ x 8 shards³ x 10.92 PRV⁴
      Total Shard Reward = 2795.52 PRV

      Community Shard Rewards = 10 validators³ x 8 shards³ x 10.92 PRV⁴
      Community Shard Rewards = 873.6 PRV

      Incognito Shard Rewards = 22 validators³ x 8 shards³ x 10.92 PRV⁴
      Incognito Team Shard Rewards = 1921.92 PRV

      Incognito Team Beacon Rewards = 7 validators⁵ x (10.92x2) PRV⁵
      Beacon Epoch Rewards = 152.88 PRV

      Total Reward = Shard Reward + Beacon Reward
      Total Reward = 2948.4 PRV
      Community Total Reward = 873.6 PRV
      Incognito Team Total Reward = 2074.8 PRV

🎯Through Epoch 388

      Total Reward = 1,143,979 PRV
      Community Total Reward = 338,957 PRV
      Incognito Team Total Reward = 805,022 PRV

🎯6 Month Outlook

      Total Reward = 3,184,272 PRV
      Community Total Reward = 943,488 PRV
      Incognito Team Total Reward = 2,240,784 PRV

📈Circulation

This one is a little tricky and I have had to make some assumptions. It is unclear where the Incognito 5M pre-mined PRV resides⁶. I assume it is being partially used to fund the staking pool as there has not been enough PRV rewards to support the staking of all the nodes.

      shard nodes = Incognito team nodes³ + community nodes⁴
      shard nodes = (8 x 22) + 860 = 1036
      Total Staked = (shard nodes x 1750) + (beacon nodes x 5250)⁵
      Total Staked = (1036 x 1750 PRV) + (7 x 5250 PRV)
      Total Staked = 1,849,750 PRV > Total Reward = 1,143,979 PRV

We do know that only physical nodes purchased from Incognito can use the staking pool and that virtual nodes require staking PRV from rewards or Test Net pre-mined³. Although no physical node sales numbers have been provide, they have shipped 300+⁷ so that is the best information I have.

      Community Nodes = Physical Nodes + Virtual Nodes
      860 = 300 + Virtual Nodes
      Virtual Nodes = 560 Nodes
      Virtual Node Stake = 560 x 1750 PRV = 980,000 PRV       Circulation = Rewards + Test Net pre-mined³ - virtual node stake       Circulation = 1,143,979 + 179,682 - 980,000       Circulation = 343,661 PRV^b       _{b - Assumes Incognito Team nodes and all physical nodes staked from 5M pre-mined}

📝pDEX

Pooled PRV (only pairs with significant amount) on Jan 1st, 2020 8AMEST
Total Pooled PRV = ~157K ![image.png](https://img.whaleshares.io/wls-img/bushkill-witness/75074fef45eb39a0e2d488db4dad2eaeae55b8a3.png) I assume that none of the pre-mined 5M⁶ is being used as part of the PDEX pool since that would put in into circulation. Therefore it is being funded with the rewards from both the community virtual node (physical nodes have not been able to withdraw rewards until recently?) and Incognito team rewards. Incognito team rewards must also be being sold to community for staking virtual nodes (or they are staking their own "community" nodes) since Test Net pre-mined and community rewards total less than half of virtual nodes staking.

💵 Earnings Outlook

Another question that is often asked is about the earnings and potential for the future. At main launch the number of community virtual nodes was (500/16)⁷ = 31. Since this was less than the 80 substitutable positions each should have earned 10.92 PRV per epoch. This also means that Incognito team was picking up the other 49 positions (and reward). We also don't know how many nodes Incognito team has running in the substitutable (community) pool. As of this morning it looked like there were 334 in COMMITTEE CANDIDATES FOR THE NEXT SHARD and 64 in SELECTED CANDIDATES. With the current 80 validators in current shard that gives us a total of ~ 478 nodes vying for the 80 substitutable positions. Or an average earning of 1.83 PRV per epoch. We know many physical nodes are having issues getting online but it seems with the latest updates more and more are starting to work. So shortly we should be close to the 860 nodes vying for the 80 substitutable spots which would give an average earning of 1.02 PRV per epoch. I have also seen numbers mentioned of now being close to 1000 nodes now.

$25 a month

Although no promise can be made for the earnings of a node, the Incognito website indicates a $25 per month earnings is a reasonable expectation.

Short term

With 1000 nodes the average PRV earned per month would be 157 PRV. To earn $25 a month per node PRV price needs to average to $0.16. Although PRV price has recently been slowing dropping it is currently well above this price. Currently 1 PRV = $0.38 pUSDT.

Mid term (6 months)

I'm defining mid term up to the point that the Incognito team fully releases their fixed validator slots. Latest word is they *"will be gradually released to the community beginning in March 2020"⁴*. This clarifies the confusion from Mainnet launch where two differing statements were made, *"We expect to remove this fixed block producer setup within 3 months of the Mainnet launch"³* and *"We expect to remove this fixed committee setup within 3-6 months of the Mainnet launch"³*.
We have seen ~1000 nodes join in the first 2 months and their goal is to have 32K+ nodes post 1 year⁴. Let's take a conservative approach and say node growth remains the same (500 nodes/month) for the next 4 months. That will bring a total or 3000 community nodes at 6 months which would bring an averaged earned PRV per node per month of 52 PRV. To earn $25 a month per node PRV price needs to average to $0.48.

Long term

There are also plans to increase the number of shards and validators per shard, however, the rewards per epoch remain the same. This does not affect the calculations, it just means a node will be potentially earning less PRV more often. Although there has been no explicit mention of ending the fix beacon validators I am assuming that will also occur as part of the March "gradual" release. This means ALL epoch rewards will be available to community nodes.
32,768 nodes⁴ would bring an average earned PRV per node per month of 16.2 PRV. To earn $25 a month per node PRV price will need to be $1.54.

📓Closing

My intent was not to draw any conclusions, but rather present the hard data to inform the community. May they draw their own conclusions if they choose to. I have tried my best to make honest and reasonable assumptions. I welcome input from others and especially @incognito if I have erred in anyway so that I can make corrections if necessary. I think we all would appreciate any additional information that the incognito team could share so that future efforts to determine statistics of the platform does not require speculation on our part.

References:

_{1. Incognito Whitepaper V0.8

2. Whitepaper not updated

3. Incognito Mainnet v.0 Configuration

4. Now and in the future: what it’s like to be an Incognito Node

5. Beacon chain discussion

6. 5M Incognito team pre-mined

7. Newsletter #2: November highlights}

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