Provider pools

The pool side of the rewards engine: who holds a pool, how much traffic is served by sellers who do not, what the next rollover changes and what every pool still holds. The pools and positions themselves are on the Staking page →; this epoch's split is on the Rewards page →

Epoch 23 · ends in 4d 11h · live on-chain

Provider pools · epoch 23

Staker bucket

100.00k

ANTS this epoch, of a 2.00M ANTS ceiling · at the 2% floor

Pools with active stake

of 269 sellers that ever settled or staked · 26.00 ANTS in total

Active sellers with no pool

of 38 serving this epoch · 2 proven wash traders excluded

Network power · epoch 24

5.14M

stake times lock, up to 104x · epoch 22 paid 0.0194 ANTS per unit

Their share of the epoch

41.1%

$673.51 across 1,591 settles · of non-wash volume

The bucket's share rises with active stake on a saturating curve: 400.00M ANTS staked would take it to the halfway point of its 2–40% range (21%), and the ceiling is approached but never reached outright. In epoch 23 the only active stake is the one-per-seller seed of 1 ANTS, and those 26.00 ANTS are what keep the bucket at its 2% floor rather than at zero; positions created since activate in epoch 24. The 1.90M ANTS between this epoch's budget and the ceiling stays unallocated: burned at settlement up to the epoch cap, the rest minted to the reserve. No seller without a pool accrued points in our index this epoch. Sellers proven to be wash trading on-chain are held out of the count above, since their zero is the wash policy rather than the pool gap. A position activates one epoch after it is created, so stake already committed for epoch 24 is not counted above: the Staking page carries it, and its totals are larger for that reason.

What the rollover changes

Until real stake arrived every pool held the same 1 $ANTS starter position, so power was the same everywhere and cancelled out of usage times power — the budget was split by usage alone. It no longer cancels. Taking epoch 22's usage exactly as it happened and re-splitting it under the power each pool holds for epoch 24:

▲ Apex Ant21.8%to49.2%

Open Forge7.26%to32.8%

Super Seeder8.75%to18.0%

Vito-Minimax16.1%to0.004%

Auralis AI | Medical9.48%to0.002%

Auralis AI | Legal7.48%to0.002%

Venice.ai Proxy7.34%to0.002%

the 26 pools with only a starter61.5%to0.052%

A hypothesis, not a forecast: it holds usage fixed at what it actually was so that the effect of the power change alone is visible. Real usage in epoch 24 will differ, and any pool can change its own side of it by staking.

What every pool still holds

Nobody can buy their way into a pool: $ANTS transfers are disabled, and no wallet holding a position is on the token's whitelist. The only route in is converting rewards you have already earned, which works because those $ANTS are minted straight into the pool and never touch a wallet. Every position on the network arrived that way — two of them funded by buyers staking their own usage rewards behind a seller they use. That leaves 68.70k ANTS earned by pools and not yet staked, worth 7.14M of power — about 1.4x everything that exists today. Where the power share would sit if each pool locked what it already holds:

▲ Apex Ant20.4%to19.1%

Auralis AI | Medical0.002%to10.6%

Auralis AI | Legal0.002%to10.6%

zro0.002%to10.6%

Phala0.002%to10.6%

Same caveat: nobody has to do any of this, and the maximum lock is only one of the choices. What it shows is that today's concentration is a question of who has acted, not of who could.