Huobi Group announced on April 24 that Huobi Mining Pool officially participated in the EOS super node election. The Huobi Global Ecological Fund under the group has also established a special EOS ecological fund and will participate in the incubation of projects based on EOS development.
It is reported that for this election, Huobi Mining Pool will set up an EOS zone to develop EOS-based decentralized applications and provide more application scenarios for the EOS ecosystem.
Huobi officials also revealed that the EOS Ecological Special Fund will also use the Huobi Global General Points HT (Huobi Token) as the core to promote the establishment of a sound ecosystem for the EOS community.
So far, Huobi has also stepped into this fierce election war.
According to statistics from the blockchain community EOSGo, since the launch of the EOS supernode campaign, 18 candidates in China (excluding Huobi Mining Pool) have joined the competition, including AntPool, ONO, EOS Gravity Zone, Laomao, and Runaway The EOS Alliance invested by Prince Gong, HelloEOS and Xue Manzi, etc. As of April 22, a total of 50 candidate nodes worldwide who meet the criteria for participation have participated.
Considering that the market value of EOS has risen sharply in recent days, it may achieve higher returns in the future, and the candidates for super nodes may continue to increase in the future.
However, during the previous election process, super nodes also caused some controversy and doubts.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, published an article on his blog on March 28, pointing out that EOS is equipped with 21 supernodes in the DPOS mode, which has major flaws and hidden dangers, and will not succeed in the long run.
The digital currency trading platform Biyi also issued an announcement on April 10, stating that it does not agree with the behavior and philosophy of EOS to set up 21 super nodes, and suspended the EOS deposit service and EOS on April 14 and April 15 respectively. transactional services.
In addition, when Laomao, an investor in the currency circle, announced his election for the EOS master node, he said that he would distribute 50% of the distributable income to the verified top 50 users through manual verification, and use the rest for EOS Support for related projects. This behavior also made some investors suspect that there may be "election bribery" in the super node election.
Afterwards, the EOS team made adjustments and updated the voting rules for super node elections: any EOS can cast 30 votes; 1 EOS can vote for 30 nodes, or you can choose to vote for only a few nodes, but not Give more than 1 vote to a node. At the same time, EOS also announced that it will reduce the 5% node reward in the previous white paper to 1% to reduce node corruption and make the system more secure.
But the new rules also have certain hidden dangers. Laomao believes that under the new voting rules, the competition among supernodes will be more inclined to fame and technology; the difficulty of supernode election becomes more difficult, and the uncertainties increase. Nodes may be monopolized by exchanges with a large amount of EOS.
He Xi, the founder of Letao and Tesco website, also wrote that under the new election rules, the weak and weak basically have no chance of winning the super node, and technology + resources + capital have become the key points for the success of the election.
He believes: "The EOS super node campaign is no longer a game for ordinary players, it has become a game for giants. It not only tests the enthusiasm of the candidates for EOS, but also tests the resources of the candidates + capital strength."
Xue Manzi also said in an interview with the blockchain media chain DD that EOS super nodes should have influence and reputation, and must have the hard conditions of team, financial resources, technology and operational capabilities.
Now, as the time for the launch of the EOS mainnet is getting closer and closer, the competition among the participating organizations will become increasingly fierce. For the next development, the author will continue to pay attention until the final winner is announced.
