Chainlink has announced that its Staking v0.2 version is now live on the Ethereum mainnet.
BlockBeats News, on November 29th, Chainlink announced that its Staking v0.2 version is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. Stakers from the v0.1 version can migrate their LINK tokens and accumulated rewards to the v0.2 version during the nine-day priority migration phase. Starting from 12 pm Eastern Time on December 7th, LINK token holders who meet the predefined eligibility requirements will have the opportunity to stake up to 15,000 LINK within a four-day period, which is the early access period before the public launch. From 12 pm Eastern Time on December 11th, anyone can stake up to 15,000 LINK, provided that the staking pool is not full.
At the launch of Staking v0.2, the total staking pool of 45,000,000 LINK will include 40,875,000 LINK allocated to community members, with the remaining portion distributed among the node operators who currently provide data for Chainlink. Community stakers can stake a minimum of 1 LINK and a maximum of 15,000 LINK per address during both the early access and regular access periods. Node operators can stake a minimum of 1,000 LINK and a maximum of 75,000 LINK.