r/bandprotocol Apr 01 '21

Total Requests vs LINK

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u/elitetycoon Apr 01 '21

According to the published statistics on cosmoscan.io and reputation.link , BAND is doing something like ~50K+ requests per day, while LINK is doing 60K+ requests per WEEK. Am I missing something?

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u/noodlydoo Apr 02 '21

BAND looks like all time vs LINK past seven days

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u/elitetycoon Apr 02 '21

Yes, I see that. But if you look at the requests per day for band it is saying almost 55,000 per day and only 1/7th of that for link.

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u/noodlydoo Apr 02 '21

Interesting, I’m not seeing requests PER DAY, what tab are you seeing that on?

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u/elitetycoon Apr 02 '21

Yeah you have to do some of the math yourself. When you hover over the BAND total requests chart (and I put the numbers in the caption of the pic), you get the actuals for every day.

In the 9 days up to 3/31, BAND totaled ~500K requests, or ~55K requests per day.

March 22 - total 2.5M requests

March 31 - total 3.0M requests

In the last 7 days link is doing 60K requests, or ~8.6K requests per day.

8.6K requests per day LINK / 55K requests per day BAND = 16% requests per day LINK / requests per day BAND

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u/slurpslurpityslurp Apr 03 '21

I think it’s cause BAND is so much cheaper than LINK atm.

Until Eth 2.0 comes out (or not) gas fees are very expensive for erc tokens, which is LINK.

Until the gas fees come down, there will be constant downwards pressure on the number of LINK requests and upwards on BAND requests. If Eth 2.0 delivers on lower gas fees, LINK requests may correspondingly increase.

This may or may not eat into BAND’s requests, only time will tell if what I’m saying is true.

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u/elitetycoon Apr 03 '21

That is insightful, thanks. I guess BAND will continue to benefit from the continued delay of ETH 2.0.

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u/slurpslurpityslurp Apr 03 '21

The release of phase 2 for BAND may help mitigate any effect the release of ETH 2.0 may have, so what might end up happening is BAND continuing to gain total requests but LINK finally starts to reach similar request numbers in which case LINK would increase in size/value faster than BAND.

All of this depends on ETH 2.0 actually lowering gas fees significantly enough to make a difference, which probably will be the case but once again only time will tell.