Centralization. Whales Voting on Dapps

Yesterday, after conducting in-depth analysis, we discovered that the Skylab dapp has been supported for the same amount of tokens since August 2023, about 30 million (a little more or a little less) this, despite the fact that dappstaking has changed substantially and that all dapps, even top-tier ones like Neurolanche, have undergone a considerable change in the astars staked by people.


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After an onchain analysis it turns out that of 30 million (the same as August 2023) 29 belong to 2 accounts (20 + 9) and that the same accounts are connected to each other with internal transactions. It is likely that the management is the same, so we are talking about a single entity.

Certainly there may be people wealthier than others, as far as we remember, on our dapp that had 200 stakers, the wealthiest person had staked about 1 million astar for example and I think that in general the dapps REALLY voted are on the same size.

The questions are 2:

Are these two accounts belonging to the Astar team? @Gaius_sama

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Is there anyone who can publicly clarify this?

I hope that those in charge can give the correct answers.

WOULD IT BE RIGHT to have a graph like the one shown above for each dapp that generally shows the real distribution of stakers and funds?
When we are asked to vote onchain, and we are told that everyone can be fundamental to change things, these types of situations are exactly those that disprove these words.
Currently, despite the attention received (few people), that wallet makes them untouchable and makes the efforts of others, such as finding real loyal users, FUTILE.

@Maarten Why are you censoring the discussion more and more every day? Actually it’s not possible add this research to original post.

The above message has been modified because certain parts refer again to an earlier topic here: ❇️ UCG: SkyLabs - Next Steps

You can check the modifications made by checking the history of the thread above. We are not censoring because the history is still available for everyone to check. Anything related to the Skylabs can be shared in the thread pointed out above.

The forum topic has also been closed because of false accusations towards Astar Foundation. Many projects in the Astar ecosystem have investors that are also invested in Astar Network: Polkadot Parachain Astar Network Raises $22M From Polychain, Alameda Research

Astar Foundation is aware that some investors do support the projects they invested in through Astar dApp Staking, this is the power of the system were investor can do more for the builders long-term future.

They maybe whales but they are staking on the dApp they would like to support and this is their own decision and shouldn’t be justified with community consensus.

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The forum topic has also been closed because of false accusations towards Astar Foundation.