The Provider, the APR and the State Migration

General
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Thanks for raising the concern around stake distribution visibility and early-network decentralization. We agree that clear, accurate attribution of stake and provider activity is important, especially in the early stages of the network.

That said, it’s important to clarify how the system works today:

  • The Staking Registry contract - which facilitates delegations to providers - is onchain and permissionless
  • Provider registration and delegation are explicit onchain actions
  • The staking dashboard does not infer or assume relationships, it indexes and displays what has actually occurred onchain

In the cases referenced in your post, the providers in question registered a provider but did not delegate stake to that provider, instead opting to self-stake. As a result, the dashboard correctly shows 0 delegations, because 0 delegation transactions occurred onchain. Manually overiding or editing onchain data would call into question the integrity of the data on the dashboard, as the chain is the source of truth.

The Aztec staking dashboard is just an indexer-backed frontend. All core functionality including staking, delegation, provider registration is implemented via onchain contracts on Ethereum. Please see here

Over the past weeks, our focus has been on making the dashboard production-ready for TGE and Alpha users, including:

  • Governance dashboard launch
  • Reward management
  • ERC20 support

These were critical prerequisites for network launch. We plan to fully open source the dashboard codebase and accept community PRs. This work is scheduled after the current TGE-critical milestones, and so we hope to finish open-sourcing the entire staking dashboard website by next week.

Separately and in the meantime, we’ve spent time supporting third-party indexers by answering detailed questions around how dashboard values are computed and derived from onchain data. Please refer to this post between us last week.

The staking dashboard reflects onchain reality by design, and that principle is foundational to building a healthy, decentralized network.