{"id":30144,"date":"2020-10-15T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30144"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:46:46","slug":"non-custodial-zilliqa-staking-attracts-1-billion-zil-tokens-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/non-custodial-zilliqa-staking-attracts-1-billion-zil-tokens-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-custodial Zilliqa staking attracts 1 billion ZIL tokens after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the blockchain project Zilliqa <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zilliqa.com\/non-custodial-seed-node-staking-goes-live-today-marking-a-new-milestone-in-zilliqas-history-70cd67448de4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> the launch of non-custodial staking on the mainnet. In the first hours of operation, users staked 1 billion ZIL tokens.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1,000,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ZIL&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ZIL<\/a> staked in only a few hours time. And we are just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cDl8D76I0U\">pic.twitter.com\/cDl8D76I0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zilliqa (@zilliqa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zilliqa\/status\/1316426200462614528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The solution allows ZIL holders to stake their assets without an intermediary. Staking is possible via the Zillion platform or through one of the wallets from third\u2011party developers.<\/p>\n<p>The Zilliqa team also introduced a new governance token ZILs (gZIL), issued for every 1,000 ZIL. Its issuance is capped at 722,700 gZIL.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, the smart contracts have been audited by PwC and underwent open beta testing. Zilliqa expects staking to increase node decentralisation and attract new participants.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s mainnet, with sharding support, began operations in late January 2019. During testing it reached a throughput of 2,828 TPS.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on October 5, the Switcheo team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/switcheo-launches-decentralized-trading-platform-on-the-zilliqa-blockchain\">launched<\/a> the decentralised exchange Zilswap with automated market-maker technology on the Zilliqa blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Zilliqa blockchain project announced the launch of non-custodial staking on the mainnet. In the first hours of operation, users staked 1 billion ZIL tokens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1289,1550],"class_list":["post-30144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-staking","tag-zilliqa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30146,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions\/30146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}