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Name | Coinmotion Oy |
Relevant legal entity identifier | 743700PZG5RRF7SA4Q58 |
Name of the crypto-asset | Acala |
Consensus Mechanism | Acala operates as a parachain within the Polkadot ecosystem, leveraging Polkadot's shared security model. Acala utilizes collators to aggregate transactions and produce blocks, which are then validated by the Polkadot relay chain validators. |
Incentive Mechanisms and Applicable Fees | The native token of the Acala Network, ACA, serves multiple roles, including transaction fee payments, staking, and governance participation. ACA holders can stake their tokens to secure the network and earn rewards. |
Beginning of the period | 2024-06-09 |
End of the period | 2025-06-09 |
Energy consumption | 52560.00000 (kWh/a) |
Energy consumption resources and methodologies | For the calculation of energy consumptions, the so called “bottom-up” approach is being used. The nodes are considered to be the central factor for the energy consumption of the network. These assumptions are made on the basis of empirical findings through the use of public information sites, open-source crawlers and crawlers developed in-house. The main determinants for estimating the hardware used within the network are the requirements for operating the client software. The energy consumption of the hardware devices was measured in certified test laboratories. Due to the structure of this network, it is not only the mainnet that is responsible for energy consumption. In order to calculate the structure adequately, a proportion of the energy consumption of the connected network, polkadot, must also be taken into account, because the connected network is also responsible for security. This proportion is determined on the basis of gas consumption. When calculating the energy consumption, we used - if available - the Functionally Fungible Group Digital Token Identifier (FFG DTI) to determine all implementations of the asset of question in scope and we update the mappings regulary, based on data of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation. |
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