NNS Power Concentration
Voting power on the NNS, measured across all 439,117 neurons rather than the named ones. Snapshot of 31 July 2026, top 1,000 neurons by stake, covering 81.7 percent of network deciding voting power.
Source: ic-api neuron index, sorted by stake, ten pages of 100. Network totals from our daily staking snapshot.
97
439,117 neurons
795.6M
5
Cumulative voting power by neuron count
0.022 percent of neurons hold half the voting power. The curve flattens past 750 because the remaining 438,000 neurons are individually tiny.
Dormant power
281
56.4M ICP
10.8%
NNS neurons must refresh their following confirmation. Voting power that is not refreshed decays toward zero, so a neuron can hold a large stake and carry no deciding power at all.
Voting-power refresh age across the top 1,000
| Refresh age | Neurons |
|---|---|
| Under 7 days | 165 |
| 7 to 30 days | 66 |
| 30 to 180 days | 452 |
| Over 180 days | 317 |
The 452 in the middle band are the pipeline. Left unrefreshed they follow the 317 into decay.
Genesis holders are decaying fastest
378
48%
Against 16 percent among non-genesis neurons. 155 of the top 1,000 were created on 10 May 2021, the launch week. The first generation staked, and then stopped voting.
Concentration is not coordination. Some of the largest neurons are near certainly operational neurons of DFINITY and the Neuron Fund: six of the ten largest neurons by stake were created within 79 seconds of each other on 31 December 2021. We measure how voting power is distributed, not who controls it or whether they act together. Neuron identities are not published by the NNS and we do not guess them.
Snapshot 31.7.2026. Refreshed monthly.