Ankr’s all-in-one suite, extensive Polkadot support, new DeFi products & more!
After successfully finishing 2020 and launching an array of new products throughout those unusual months, we at Ankr are getting prepared to kickstart the upcoming year.
To give you a clearer picture of what our priorities will be in the near future, below are Ankr’s main plans for Q1 2021.
Introduce a suite for all Ankr services; website redesign
2021 is shaping up to be a very busy and exciting year for Ankr and our ecosystem, as we will focus on consolidating the products we launched last year into one suite. Our services may attend to different problems, but they are all related to Web3, which is a core principle for Ankr.
Essentially, all our services are to be divided into two separate categories available within the suite of Ankr’s products:
- Infrastructure services: staking nodes, API services and enterprise services
- DeFi solutions, like Eth2 staking and more upcoming new products
We are also working on rebranding and redesigning our main website ankr.com and Eth2 staking services to incorporate all the services under the Ankr brand.
Make nodes and staking even more accessible
Ankr started to build the one-click node-as-a-service platform in early 2020. Over the year, we have added support for over 40 blockchains, learning a great deal about staking communities and end users in the process.
One of the most important points about staking nodes is that they are not always accessible for regular users due to high-entry barriers. We have therefore made it our mission at Ankr to break down any technical entry barriers by creating easy node deployment applications, enabling even non-technical users to deploy and run any node of their choice. That’s what made our Eth2 staking service so popular for ETH2 staking, for instance.
In 2021, we will focus on the most popular and widely used protocols to deliver the very best experience for stakers. Those protocols include Ethereum, Polkadot and BINANCE Smart Chain, for which we will as well provide API services for developers. All of them gained a lot of adoption and traction in 2020, so we expect them to thrive in the upcoming year.
Expand Ethereum and Polkadot based solutions
Ethereum remains the most used blockchain and with the Ethereum 2.0 transition and migration to the PoS model, we expect it to attract even more user and developer activity.
In the meantime, Polkadot, and its wild cousin Kusama, are gaining a lot of traction in the developer space, becoming the number-one network for staking, based on the volume of staked tokens. In 2021, we expect Polkadot to have an even more successful year. With some big events upcoming like the parachain auctions and DOT and KSM staking, we intent to provide all relevant services to their Polkadot and Substrate-based ecosystem participants.
While we continue to work on our infrastructure for one-click deployment of Ethereum and Polkadot nodes, we also will expand our easy API access for developers through our dedicated API service for better user experience and access.
Integrate more DeFi products
We will continue collaborating closely with various projects who complete our ecosystem with their DeFi services. For instance, Bounce Finance enables decentralized auctions of digital assets and NFTs, while OnX Finance provides farming and lending solutions with Ankr-related assets as collateral.
This year, we intend to boost our ecosystem with DeFi products who utilize our syntetic staking derivative assets, such as aETH (and more to come ??), as we expect DeFi to grow further as an industry. Stay tuned for announcements and details coming soon.
Add more use cases for ANKR and aETH
While improving and expanding governance use case for ANKR token, we will also heavily focus on incentivizing developement, liquidity and yield strategies for Ankr-related tokens, mainly aETH (but again, more to come..) on various exchanges and DeFi platforms.
We see 2020 as the foundation year for our tokens. In the upcoming months, we will focus on getting more exposure for them, making ANKR and aETH key assets in the context of decentralized infrastructure.
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