Economics

Lightning Economics

Lightning Nodes

Since Plenny’s DON is based on the Bitcoin Lightning Network with +32k Lightning Nodes as of January 2022), it builds upon an existing decentralized infrastructure with further potential for growth. The Ethereum Network consists of lesser nodes (almost 5,500 in January 2022).

Existing Decentralized Oracle Networks based on the Ethereum infrastructure only use a small number of these nodes (e.g. +130 clients at the industry-leading Oracle provider, as of July 2021). Given these proportions, it can be concluded that Plenny’s DON is bound to achieve a plausible degree of decentralization with a participation of ≈1% of the existing Lightning Nodes.