Polygon (Matic) Delegators do this One Mistake all the time
How NOT to stake your Matic and avoid the most common delegator pitfall.
If you are staking your Matic with a Polygon Validator, you have already faced this question at least once.
“How do I choose the best Matic Validator?”
I admit that the answer is more obvious to me, or anybody who runs their own Validator for that matter. But what about the rest of you?
Here is what many Matic owners end up doing and why it’s 100% wrong.
They go to Polygon’s official Validators’ page.
They sort by Performance (default sorting).
And they select the top Validator, whoever that is.
Alas, what they thought they have done, is not what they did. In other words, they did not delegate their Matic with the top-performing Validator. Here is why.
Polygon sorts all Validators' performance according to the percentage of checkpoints signed over the last 72 hours. However, there is a subtle misunderstanding.
Most Validators have a performance score of 100%.
Therefore, sorting by performance is — you guessed it — mostly irrelevant.
In fact, the seemingly Top performing Validator on the list is the newest kid on the block (pun intended)!
This is because Validators are first sorted by checkpoints signed and then, by reverse chronological order. Therefore, if you choose the first Validator in the list, you choose the Validator that has the shortest validation history.
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