Welcome to my CTP weekly stats report. It is compiled for everyone interested in the development of CTP Talk and CTP token, so please continue to read for your weekly stats dosage.

Weekly summary
I’ll start with a summary of the market stats and key performance indicators on one slide for week 18. In the sections after, I will provide further details for each of these numbers.
The report is divided in the following sections:
• Daily posts and earnings on CTP Talk
• Top CTP Talk post authors and earners
• New, active and total post authors
• Daily comments and earnings
• CTP Talk frontend utilisation
• CTP on Hive-Engine & Market capitalisation
Daily posts and earnings on CTP Talk
The first section contains the daily posts and earnings in week 18. During this week, 482 (+6.2%) unique authors published 1,756 (+11.0%) posts and generated 22,701 CTP in earnings. The first chart below presents the number of posts published per day.
The second chart shows the earnings these posts have generated per day.
In the past months, the number of unique authors kept growing with 5.2 authors weekly, although we now notice in the chart below that the increase is stopped.
Also the number of posts increased, with 6.5 posts weekly, but again here we see a similar trend.
Top CTP Talk post authors and earners
The next two charts present the top post authors and earners in week 18.
The TOP 3 CTP authors with the highest number of posts were @regenerette (26), @alokkumar121 (26) and @harpreetjanda (19).
Furthermore, the TOP 3 CTP post earners were @jongolson (911 CTP), @ctpsb (889 CTP) and @liotes (746 CTP).
Studying the post earnings breakdown of the Top 20 authors versus all other authors, the Top 20 authors received 60% of all post earnings in week 18. In the chart below you can find the earning percentages for the Top 20 authors since October.
New, active and total post authors
In week 18 we had 57 new authors on CTP Talk.
I would like to welcome @brainylady, @joytheteacher, @artemisha, @alejandria12, @tecd10, @dorianny28, @huss, @soyjudith, @kelapkelip, @coolxxx, @limbo2013, @gulia.peito, @totyahmed731993, @esmeesmith, @aftabkhan10, @luiscrdsag7, @siniceku, @linkxdx, @butherfly87, @almor69, @ameerbushra, @haseeb.leo, @thebeardflex, @emybaby, @mariadiaz, @josej739, @nana03, @sheila23, @etiboy56, @din0baba, @mineopoly, @thatsweeneyguy, @dammyone, @bitte.mach.das, @marcocasario, @bethsyhansen, @katleya, @flauwy, @darmst5339, @khairamuliani, @rishik.hakim, @cwow2, @chocopao, @mariana30, @nourtawfiq, @blockchainyouth, @racemlaadhar, @flordi, @elgatoshawua, @muratkbesiroglu, @kimavalon, @tokutaro22, @naireth83 and @ceekz to the CTP tribe, having published their first post during this week.
Looking at the overall trend, the number of new authors is further increasing with 0.2 authors weekly. As a result, the total number of CTP Talk authors has now reached 1,958.
The 14-days retention rate (which provides an indication of CTP Swarm engagement, interest, and loyalty) has reached 597 authors and remained on the same level as last week.
Daily comments and earnings
This week we had in total 12,709 comments, which has slightly moved up again as compared to last week.
This week the comment upvote value also increased week to 1,260 CTP (+10.1%).
CTP Talk frontend utilisation
In the sections above I have highlighted the posts and comments generated using the CTP tag. These posts and comments could have been entered using many different frontends. When we specifically look at the CTP Talk frontend, 440 posts and comments were published in week 18, which is 30% higher as compared to last week.
The Top 3 authors were @king.sports (12 posts), @alente (6 posts) and @hirohurl (3 posts).
The Top 3 comment posters were @harpreetjanda (159 comments), @jfang003 (52 comments) and @king.sports (42 comments).
The two graphs below present the TOP 10 post and comment authors.
As mentioned above already, the frontend was used substantial more as compared to last week, which you can clearly see in the chart below.
CTP on Hive-Engine & Market Capitalisation
The following charts present the development of the CTP token on Hive-Engine.
The first chart provides an overview of the total CTP supply, the number of tokens staked, liquid and burned.
In week to 9 May, the total CTP supply increased with 27,004 CTP to 3,254,165 CTP. The number of tokens staked went up to 2,850,917 CTP or 89.98% of the total number in circulation. Finally, 550 CTP were burned.
The total amount of CTP in circulation is held by 3,265 (+2%) account holders, which is steadily increasing.
The next chart presents the Top 20 CTP holders. This week @ph1102.ctp moved to second place overtaking @clicktrackprofit. Furthermore @imfarhad and @globetrottergcc swapped places.
The following chart is taken from Hive Engine and presents the price development in the last three months. As you can see there has been a steady decline in price after the peak mid-February. The price stabilised at the end of March and is now slowly increasing again.
The final chart of this report highlights the CTP Market Capitalisation development. On 9th of May the CTP Market Capitalisation was $112k USD.
This concludes my weekly update, until the next time and stay safe! 😀
(Information source: Hive blockchain, CTP Talk frontend, Hive-Engine and Coingecko)