MultiversX Validators Announcements

🔰 Level up your node I am sure you already noticed the “Validators” tab in the blockchain explorer. It represents the node operators, be it people or companies. All their nodes are grouped together under their unique identity, which is managed via Keybase, which was just acquired by Zoom, btw. Validator pride starts here 👇 🔐 Make a Keybase.io account 🤵 Mirror Elrond's professionalism with your chosen identity 📁 Create a folder named elrond in “Files > public>(keybasename)” folder 📄 For each node: create a simple file & rename it as the node BLS key - 192 char public key from validatorKey.pem ⤴️ Upload those files to the keybase/public/(keybasename)/elrond folder ✍️ Add this to your prefs.toml file for each node:

# Identity represents the keybase's identity
Identity = "keybasename"

♻️ Reboot your nodes

⚡️ The Elrond Genesis SC AMA is LIVE These last few days have been filled with excitement and announcements, and there is a lot more coming. Stay ahead of the curve and catch all the most important updates & next steps about the Elrond ecosystem straight from our CEO & COO. ⚡️ Join Beniamin Mincu and Lucian Todea for a Live AMA on Periscope 🕚 Friday 08 May at 11:00 UTC - NOW! 👉🏻 https://www.pscp.tv/ElrondNetwork/

🗺 Battle of Nodes: A World at Consensus Decentralization is a core value and metric for any blockchain. Elrond does it right straight from the testnet phase. An enthusiastic team of validators went the extra mile and mapped the validators supporting the Battle of Nodes public testnet. 🙏 Those are all nodes ran by community, in an un-incentivized manner. Thank you, Nodes team, you are the best! 👉🏻 https://medium.com/@staking.agency/hello-world-9402408fe58d

🌴 The Palm Tree Network joins Elrond as Genesis Launch Partner The Palm Tree Network team has been a constant presence in the validator community, have contributed feedback and suggestions to the team, support to other members and even valuable tutorials for all to use, like their recent monitoring guide. Elrond is therefore happy to announce that The Palm Tree Network will extend their development and bootstrapping support beyond the Elrond Mainnet. “Battle of Nodes helps us discover more than just bugs in the code. It is an opportunity for our community to prove their knowledge, commitment and willingness to help us and each other. The Palm Tree Network team were amongst those who stepped up to the challenge in a very good way. We feel confident and proud to entrust them with operating nodes at Genesis.” said Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-palm-tree-network-joins-elrond-as-genesis-launch-partner-staking-provider-49a5b187d03d RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1258413424637288449?s=20

📣 Live AMA with Beniamin Mincu & Lucian Todea These last few days have been filled with excitement and announcements, and there is a lot more coming. Stay ahead of the curve and catch all the most important updates & next steps about the Elrond ecosystem straight from our CEO & COO. ⚡️ Join Beniamin Mincu and Lucian Todea for a Live AMA on Periscope 🕚 Friday 08 May at 11:00 UTC 👉🏻 https://www.pscp.tv/ElrondNetwork/

📣 Release v1.0.113 is live Hello Nodes team, The latest patch adds the Protocol Treasury, which collects 10% of rewards for the sustainable development of the ecosystem. There is a bigger change implemented as well, but we will address that in a separate post. 📋 Full patch nodes are here (link) ⏱ Genesis time 22:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📘 Validators Documentation update Hello Nodes Team, 1st of May 🌤 is free for everyone, Friday is right before the weekend, so I know exactly what is on everyone's mind - UPDATED DOCUMENTATION FOR VALIDATORS. Say no more, we have you covered. 👉 Please do: give https://docs.elrond.com/validators a read and share your feedback Highlights: 🔑 Key management: validatorKey.pem locked in, use of wallet & .json is now mandatory 🌴 ThePalmTree Network monitoring guide added to the links ⚠️ Contabo warning in the VPS section "Writing makes the world go round" ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Release v1.0.112 is live Hello Nodes team, The latest release brings a lot of new improvements and fixes. Block proposers now wait for all the signatures they can get in the allocated subround - this means all nodes have a chance to get + Peer Rating for signing a block, not just the 2/3+1 physically closest to the proposer. 📋 The changes in this patch are extremely well documented, please look over them in detail here. 👉 Please do: confirm validatorKey.pem is in the ~.../config folder for each of your nodes - see this the previous post for more details https://t.me/BattleOfNodes/160 ⏱ Genesis time 17:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

👉 Action needed before Patch v1.0.111 Hello Nodes team, A new patch is coming today with exciting new things. Before that, let's address the final step of sunsetting the initialNodesSk.pem name in favor of the new validatorKey.pem file name. ⚠️ Back up your keys to a safe location outside of server where the node is running. 👉 Make sure the ~/VALIDATOR_KEYS folder contains the .zip of your current validatorKey.pem file. If not 👇 👉 Please do: run the following commands for each of your nodes. Make sure to replace "node-0" with "node-1" etc where needed.

cd ~/elrond-nodes/node-0/config
zip node-0.zip validatorKey.pem
mv node-0.zip ~/VALIDATOR_KEYS/

ℹ️ Info: initialBalancesSk.pem is officially not needed anymore. The Keygenerator now only creates a validatorKey.pem file. You can still use your old initialBalancesSk.pem to access wallets. But consider getting a password protected .json file from our wallet, instead, which also has an erd1... address. The new BoN will require it, so you'll have to do it eventually. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Release v1.0.110 is live Hello Nodes team, We have a new patch with some important improvements, such as less CPU load due to not re-checking signatures for valid transactions & optimized trie synching via batching. Importantly, the initialNodesSk.pem file is renamed to a more intuitive validatorKey.pem ⚠️ If your node doesn't start, please check if you have the validatorKey.pem file in the config folder of your node - default at $HOME/elrond-nodes/node-0/config 📋 Full release notes: New: - Skip transaction revalidation in order to save CPU time - Added the metric in node/status rout that specify the current number of shards without metachain - Optimized trie nodes synchronization by requesting a batch of hash nodes instead of requesting one by one - Changed the validator key filename from initialNodesSk.pem to validatorKey.pem - The node removes the inactive observers from the heartbeat cache in a predefined time (usually 10 minutes) Fixed: - Fixed concurrency issue in trie pruning and trie snapshotting: the trie snapshot and trie pruning for a certain root hash needed to be executed in this order. There was an edge case when the pruning occurred before the snapshot, the result being that the hashes needed for the snapshot were removed before they were saved in the snapshot, thus the error - Fixed a bug that prevented journalized data tries being deleted when reloading the trie from a previous hash - Fixed the peerType and shardID for the inactive inactive validators that were not updated during the offline period ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.109 is live Hello Nodes team, The latest patch fixes a number of errors, like the annoying bech32 warning message when changing epochs, a trie bug after deleting a node and an edge case which occurred when trying to revert to the first block in an epoch. ⏱ Genesis time 21:00 UTC ⚠️ Notice to Contabo users: the following error resulted in improper node behavior and only happened on Contabo nodes [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x 👉 Reminder: poor node performance leads to a lower Peer Rating and therefore less rewards 🤔 Please consider what is the price of "cheap" for your mainnet nodes when choosing your VPS provider 🧾 The node registration form is updated to only accept "erd1..." addresses for the rewards wallet. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 "Hope clouds observation." - every premature launch, Lessons Learned Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.107 is live Hello Nodes team, We issued a new patch last night to improve validator management based on rating, which was previously acting in an unpredictable manner. 🐇 To those celebrating today - Happy Easter! ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.106 is live Hello Nodes team, We finish the week with the latest patch which brings the new miniblock whitelisting mechanism and a few important fixes to epoch changes & the anti-flood component. ⏱ Genesis time is 20:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.105 is live Hello Nodes team, This latest patch fixes the bugs discovered after last night's release. If you had issues with your nodes, updating the scripts to the latest version and performing a cleanup is best. @ALwin79 recommends: ❗️If your nodes were NOT running (because of the issues that needed fixing), please do: cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-v2 && ./script.sh upgrade Do you want to remove the current Node DB & Logs for node-x ? yes Your node will probably still be running as a service, so it should come up automatically. Otherwise, do an additional ./script.sh start ⏱ Genesis time is 15:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.104 is live Hello Nodes team, The bech32 - check-summed base32 format - addresses are here. Any inconsistencies you notice with auxiliary tools, like the explorer, are known, please don't log GitHub issues. Expect them to catch up to the blockchain in the next couple of days. ⏳ A detailed article about all these updates will answer all your questions tomorrow. This is too important and exciting to condense in a Validators update post, and it's too late for us, almost 1:00 AM. ⏱ Genesis time is 22:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.103 is live Hello Nodes team, The latest patch just dropped, with some fixes and a few items that we are very excited about. Our code is open so you can snoop around already. We will soon present in detail what these items mean, why they are important and how they work. ⏱ Genesis time is 22:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Validator Calculator update & Patch v1.0.102 Hello Nodes team, New patch is out with the latest version of Arwen which now runs as a separate process, the start in epoch components, bugfixes and v1.3 of the scripts. We've worked the newest update of the economics into the Validator Calculator to include a Protocol Fee. The Protocol Treasury now captures 10% of rewards for the sustainable development of Elrond, changing the Validator APR to 36%. 👉 Please do: review the Validator Calculator ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwardsbug

📣 Patch v1.0.101 is live Hello Nodes team, It's the end of the week - we are technically off-the-clock and a bit of fun is allowed. We all know the "joke" in this meme is actually a praise for our devs, who keep issuing update after update, at night and over weekends, to constantly bring us the best possible version of Elrond. They never seem to be off the clock. This new patch addresses an important epoch change issue, fixes the rating and adds a cleaning component for cross shard transactions. 👉 Please do: enjoy your evening and weekend, see you in the morning ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.100 is live Hello Nodes team, We're celebrating the 💯th testnet patch with peer rating v2, a neater consensus selection mechanism, improvements and fixes aimed at stability & efficiency and more. Blocks will be minted starting with 23:00 UTC. Nodes which were recently signed up will be validators. 🍻 Enjoy Internet-Ale recommended by brother Valy D'Attorre from the Saint-Shardus brewery 👉 Please do: check out the improvements to our blockchain explorer - you can sort by peer rating, see deeper stats for nodes and more 🧐 "Muh noed is observre!1" - probably just on standby. If your node is here, you're in. “We found kindred spirits in the brothers, because just like the Elrond team, they too constantly deliver." ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🌤 Sunday reading Hello Nodes team, It's a beautiful day indoors! The monitors are shining, the smell of coffee fills the bedroom/office/library air, and most importantly, we're ~50.000 rounds into this patch, which peaked at 11.4k TPS. So far, so good! While the dev team is hard at work fixing bugs and readying the next patch, we invite you to do some reading - the official Validators section has been updated. 👨‍💻 Updated Validators documentation 👉 Please do: read & provide feedback and ideas about what we can add to make it better "To the window to the wall" - Lil BoN ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards