The Nxt (NXT) and Avidity (ARDR) blockchains have seen a spike in the number of network'southward nodes afterwards rolling out an incentives program.

Jelurida — the company behind both blockchains — told Cointelegraph on April 28 that both networks experienced a dramatic increase in the number of nodes after the firm launched a node rewards program on April Fool's Day.

The node rewards program compensates node hosters with Ignis (IGNIS) tokens. Jelurida intends to distribute 10,000 tokens (near $212) daily among node hosters every 24-hour interval for the adjacent six months.

Incentivization worked "across expectations"

According to the information provided, the Ardor blockchain'southward node count increased by well-nigh 200% from 241 to 708, while Nxt's blockchain increased past 315% from 159 to 659. The number of archival nodes increased even more sharply: Nxt archival nodes count increased past 2311% from 17 to 410 and Ardor'southward by 1110% from 38 to 461.

Jelurida co-founder and director Lior Yaffe said the results had exceeded the house's expectations and would have a positive bear on on the network's health and resilience:

"For a public blockchain protocol having a strong network of nodes using many dissimilar hardware brands, operating systems, cloud providers and geographies is especially important to brand the network more resilient to attack, manipulation or technical failure."

Yaffe also pointed out the business firm yesterday updated Nxt to let total-nodes to run on mobile phones. He said he was pleased with the design of the program because — while usual staking programs generally advantage large token holders — this initiative incentivizes people without big crypto holdings.

The demand for blockchain nodes

Nodes are a sometimes overlooked, but crucial office, of blockchain infrastructure that are ofttimes run at the hoster'south expense. While nodes let direct access to the blockchain and improve privacy and security when used for one's ain transactions, hosting them isn't normally compensated.

Considering of this, it is important for cryptocurrency firms to make running a node equally cheap as possible. When it comes to Bitcoin, equally Cointelegraph reported in June 2022, all one needs to host a node is a minor Raspberry Pi which costs almost $35 and fits into 1'southward hand. In tardily October last year, HTC as well launched a phone which is capable of running a Bitcoin full node.