MultiversX Validators Announcements

⏰ Wake up call for sleeping nodes! Hello Nodes Team, A new patch is ready to be rolled out with exciting new features. We will make a snapshot of all the online nodes, observers included, and add them to the validators list once we cross-check with the BoNwards form. 👉 Please do: make sure your nodes are online, snapshot at 10:00 UTC "And so, it begins" ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🧮 Help us improve explorer.elrond.com ! Hello Nodes Team, We've been making improvements to the block explorer, which is now faster and neater. Let's also add the features we want to it. We have a document where you can add your comments, let's do this, team. 👉 Please do: fill in this document (link) with your suggestions about how explorer.elrond.com should look or behave like ⚠️ Please no "Battle of Nodes" scoring etc, think mainnet features ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.85 is live Hello Nodes Team, Finally, some action! Before anything else, THANK YOU to all running nodes with us. We've kept them as observers and even stressed them as such, but you guys are like rocks. What a team to build with! The latest patch brings the previous release to everyone of us and adds a new component for computing the consensus round even faster. Take that, "cryptographic sortition" which takes ages! A poke at some academic project out there, obviously. 👉 Please do: Turn your nodes back on if you haven't already ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.84 is live Hello Nodes Team, The much anticipated patch is live! We are releasing a new feature today, End of Epoch, see below. We will use an older version of the libp2p libraries, while the P2P bug gets fixed. Your nodes are still observers, we will snapshot the ones online and include them as validators in the next patch. 👉 Please do: Turn your nodes back on if you haven't already 🧐 Why is my node an observer? The earlier announcement today got mixed responses, so we decided to make sure the blockchain has enough online validators to start. We will add those nodes which we see as online observers in the next patch, in the next 1-2 days. ⏰ End of Epoch: Elrond time is split in "rounds" - 6s, the amount of time needed to mint a block, and "epochs". An Epoch is the amount of time nodes in Elrond will stay in the same shard. Our Adaptive State Sharding mechanism will shuffle nodes between shards every Epoch, for security -> less time for validators to collude and form a malicious group. ⏱ Epoch duration on mainnet will be 24h. For now, we will test with an Epoch duration of 600rounds, aka 3.600 seconds, aka 1 hour. This is to see as many "end of epoch" events as possible. 🚧 This first public release of the End of Epoch mechanism will shuffle nodes inside the shards only. This is an important change, you will see your nodes now assigned to a shard, but some will be assigned to a "waiting list". On the mainnet, validators will not always be assigned to a shard, but will periodically be shuffled out of the shard into a waiting list, stay there for an epoch, and then get assigned to a random new shard in the next epoch. Don't worry, validator rewards will overall be the same, regardless of "luck" for being shuffled out more often than others. More on that later. "The epoch of reckoning is upon us" - The last rounds of Shardylon ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🏁 Validators, start your engines! Hello Nodes Team, The much anticipated patch is coming today! We are releasing a new feature today, End of Epoch. We will use an older version of the libp2p libraries, while the P2P bug gets fixed. 👉 Please do: Turn your nodes back on! ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🔬🦠 We're (still) hunting bugs Hello Nodes Team, The bug-hunt is going well, we've nailed down the components that need to be put under the microscope. The secondary effects of our activities are: increased CPU, RAM & bandwidth - costly elements that you shouldn't have to pay for. So, let's take a break, team. 👉 Please do: shut down your nodes if they incur extra costs due to the recent resources spikes ⏱ Check the announcements channel on Monday January 27 for the next steps 💪 You guys are awesome for sticking with us in the un-incentivized version of our testnet. We see you as the guys in the picture: fearlessly enjoying a break on top of the tallest building, as it's being built even further. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🔬🦠 We're hunting bugs Hello Nodes Team, We're hunting a nasty networking bug. Our internal tests run on a few dedicated cloud providers, so the network connections are somewhat "ideal". The real world testing with you guys highlights something we're trying to nail down. It will be messy for a bit, hang on, team. 👉 Please do: ignore your validators not working as expected right now and follow this channel for updates "It's always stormier before the hurricane" - Battle of Nodes wisdom ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.82 is out Hello Nodes Team, Patch v1.0.82 debuts with a major improvement to the consensus mechanism, which optimizes the transaction processing and reduces the time needed to produce a new block. ✅ So many online nodes, we're close to 100%! We will only selectively add new nodes for the time being, but the form is open. DM @SeverMM for any new nodes or changes ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.80 is out Hello Nodes Team, Patch v1.0.79 came and went. We successfully tested several new features in our lab environment, but the real world is so much different. We're now gradually releasing the new features one by one to pin-point which one caused the problem with the previous patch. ⏱ The genesis for the new blockchain is at 17:00 UTC 🧐 You will notice more peers than in the previous ones - up to 300 - this is fine for now ⭕️ Offline nodes were removed. The form is temporarily open for BoN veterans to add new nodes. We're aiming for 100% online, don't add nodes that you are not sure you will have online. "Silence has a sound" - Calm before the storm ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.77 is out Hello Nodes Team, One of the heaviest patches yet just dropped. It has improved network sharding, the much anticipated block-tracking feature (re-sync at 2 blocks instead of 30 & much more) and state trie pruning. Team, the excitement for these features is hard to contain. Elrond is imminent. ⏱ The new blockchain will start at 20:00 UTC ⭕️ Offline nodes were removed and the form to add more nodes is closed. If you need to add new nodes or reactivate removed ones, get in touch with @SeverMM ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 How to install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.75 is out Hello Nodes Team, We have a new patch, released retro-style. It brings new enhancements to the network sharding component. It also brings back the joy of manual updates. Just this one time, there is a typo in the tag. 👉 Please do 1: run the following 2 commands and share the output in validators chat: cat $HOME/elrond-nodes/node-0/stats/session.info | grep AppVersion sudo service elrond-node-0 status | grep Active 👉 Please do 2: manually update your nodes by running the following 2 commands on each node: cd elrond-go-scripts-v2 ./script.sh upgrade 🧐 We're going through the GitHub issues, thanks for submitting so many of them and don't shy away from submitting more, we love & reward your valid suggestions for improvement! "Well, I still update manually" - The Big Shardowski ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.74 is out Hello Nodes Team, The nasty bug highlighted by the introduction of network sharding is fixed in this new patch. We'll now be testing higher TPS. We're looking to go as close to 100% online nodes as possible soon, details below. ⏱ Patch v1.0.74 is out, genesis time 09 January 16:30 UTC 🐛 The bug which was fixed: sending the same transaction multiple times sometimes caused disagreements between the proposer and validators. As the 2nd, 3rd, ... & so on transactions after the 1st one try to spend more ERD than available, they are dropped by our anti-flooding mechanism. The proposer sometimes had all the transactions, while validators didn't have the 2nd, 3rd, etc. So they wouldn't sign the proposer's block. Fixed ✅ 👉 Please do: turn on all the nodes you have registered or contact @SeverMM to remove nodes you no longer want to keep online. We will purge offline nodes from the next patch, as we're aiming for 100% online validators to do a TPS test. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 New new patch is out! Hello Nodes Team, Master Tailor @IulianPascalau and Demolition Expert @LucianMincu have knitted us a new patch. It brings network sharding to Elrond, one of the most anticipated features. It will drastically improve network performance. Do not confuse with anti-flooding mechanisms, which are different, and still work in progress. We will be running a high-TPS environment to observe the impact. ⏱ Patch v1.0.72 is out, genesis time 07 January 19:00 UTC ♻️ Patch v1.0.71 came and went. Paradoxically, the process is both the problem and the solution. One process step was unsuccessful, so we redeployed. ⚠️ Network sharding is NOT anti-flooding. The antiflooding mechanisms are still work in progress. Previous flooding attacks will still work, thanks in advance for not repeating those - no reward for old things. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 New patch is out! Hello Nodes Team, Not even 1 week into the new decade and we have a second patch. As we were hitting the renewed gym subscription and thinking about all the delicios food we're going to stop eating, our devs made a new patch and added more nodes as validators. 💰 Earning Money in BoNwards: one issue point = $32. Earn issue points by submitting useful issues and pull requests to our blockchain GitHub 🤩 More nodes = more rewards - We will add a 10% bonus for each node the submitter operates, up to 100%, aka 10 nodes. Every node you have over 10 will bring in a 5% bonus each 🧐 If you have 5 nodes and submit an issue worth 1 issue point, you will get 1 + 5 nodes x 10% = 1.5 issue points rewarded. If you have 12 nodes and submit an issue worth 1 issue point, you will get 1 + 10 x 10% + 2 x 5% = 2.1 issue points ⏱ Patch v1.0.70 is out, genesis time 06 January 18:00 UTC “I'm the little girl who threw the block" - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue

🚧 Slow synch due to bug Hello Nodes Team, The new antiflood + peer rating mechanisms have unearthed a bug which makes the network slow. We're working on releasing a fix for this. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 New Patch, New Features, New Incentives Hello Nodes Team, Serious people such as ourselves celebrated New Years Eve using the increasingly reliable 6s block timer. Every patch brings us closer to being able to set our watches to the Elrond unstoppable tx churn. Today we get the most comprehensive flood prevention yet, with some other new features and tweaks worked in as well. Please read on for the BoNwards incentive program. 👉 Please do: if you are sticking with us through BoNwards, our un-incentivized version of Battle of Nodes, fill in this form (link) with the nodes you want to keep or add <- no action needed if you filled this in already, thanks! 💰 Earning Money in BoNwards: one issue point = $32. Earn issue points by submitting useful issues and pull requests to our blockchain GitHub 🤩 More nodes = more rewards - We will add a 10% bonus for each node the submitter operates, up to 100%, aka 10 nodes. Every node you have over 10 will bring in a 5% bonus each 🧐 If you have 5 nodes and submit an issue worth 1 issue point, you will get 1 + 5 nodes x 10% = 1.5 issue points rewarded. If you have 12 nodes and submit an issue worth 1 issue point, you will get 1 + 10 x 10% + 2 x 5% = 2.1 issue points ⏱ Patch v1.0.68 is out, genesis time 03 January 12:00 UTC "Thank you for sharding" - Big Blockchain spokesman ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 BoNwards and Shardwards! Hello Nodes Team, Thank you for sticking with us through the end-of-year hiatus. Our devs have been busy with the new anti-flood component, which will be released today in a new patch. 👌 All nodes which were online at 12:00 UTC were added in as validators. 👉 Please do: if you are sticking with us through BoNwards, our un-incentivized version of Battle of Nodes, fill in this form (link) with the nodes you want to keep or add (please make sure input the data of ALL the nodes you want in) 💰 Help us improve via GitHub (link) submissions and we will reward you ⏱ Genesis time for v1.0.66 is 16:00 UTC. Thank you for staying with us. Elrond is imminent. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

🎉 Battle of Nodes Rewards Are On Their Way! Hello Nodes Team, Your efforts are being rewarded. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we double and triple checked everything. Calculations are final and payments underway. Congratulations to all! Details below. 💰 The Overall TOP 10 earners are also the overall winners of Battle of Nodes: Shadowshards. Winners, congratulations, you can bask in your glory here (link) 📊 Leaderboard - fixing it to display the correct values was not possible with everything going on. We distributed the nodes to tiers, as seen here (link). A lot of the nodes got some minor bonuses because of the score delays, we hope you enjoy! 🏅 Top 7 scores - the second half of the prizes were granted to the overall Top 7 accounts (link). 6 of the original 7 successfully defended, while a contender successfully attacked their way into top 7. Good job! 🔎 Our Vulnerabilities prize pool is yet to be depleted. Attacks, bugs, issues, proposals and new tools were awarded, as well as our other challenges. Still, $8.000 remain. They will carry over to Battle of Nodes: Onchained (tba). You can check out which issue got rewarded how much at this link. 💪 #ratemynode was one of the best challenges ever. The work you guys put in resulted in great articles that we can all be proud of. Check out the final ratings here (link). ⚖️ The VPS comparison guide drew a few nice pieces (link). We could only reward the top entry, but all 3 are pretty good, especially if you're looking to see what alternatives to Contabo exist on this planet. 💸 We used the ERD/USD parity 0.00192871, the 7 days MA (link) for ERD on Binance 📇 KYC was an issue for some of you, we unfortunately can't pay people who do not pass, even if we acknowledged your efforts. 🙏 Please remember to fill in our post-BoN survey (link) and to sign-up for BoNwards (link), the non-incentivized testnet over the holidays. A recap will follow after we get some time off for Christmas. Thank you all so much for joining us. We hope you enjoy some well earned rest. Have an awesome end of year and we see you back soon(tm) "This consensus round is over, but the epoch is just beginning" ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

🎬 ...and cut! BoN: Shadowshards is over! Next steps Hello Nodes Team, Time flies when you're having fun. Was it yesterday when were penalizing 24hrs version delays? When we were discussing firewall setups? Windows issues? So many things have happened. The incentivized testnet part is over for now. More will come. Please leave your node running if you're under no financial pressure to close it down and read on, maybe we have some fun over the holidays as well. Please fill in our surveys and read about the next steps below. 💰 Official monitoring for Battle of Nodes: Shadowshards is over as of Monday 23 December 12:00 UTC 📊 Leaderboard scores are being compiled with our data, it will take a bit to fix, but we will do everything today 🔎 GitHub issues are being rated as we speak. We are considering bugs, issues, pull requests, the articles and tools in the proposals. We will then score them, split the $20.000 pool per point and reward each accordingly 💪 #ratemynode - so amazing! Congratulations to all of you for the awesome articles 👉 BoNwards: if you want to keep validators running over the holidays, please fill in this form (link). We will not incentivize participation over the holidays, but if you're looking to run mainnet nodes early, this might interest you. Signing up in the form is no guarantee that you will be selected to run a mainnet node in Phase 2! 🙏 Survey - Kind request from Sever: we love honest feedback, it helps us improve. Please share your direct, honest and anonymous thoughts with us in this survey form (link), so we may do better next time. ⏱ A lot of open issues with scoring, GitHub issues rating, KYC last minute issues and so on. Looks highly unlikely that we pay everything today. 24 December looks more likely. ⚠️ Keep your eyes on the announcements channels for the results of #ratemynode, VPS comparison guide, final standings, closing words and so on. "So, I've decided to take my work back undergrown, to stop it from falling into the wrong shards" - ERD & Enter ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 ——————————————————— * Installing and maintaining a node - cheatsheet * GitHub - submit issues and PRs * Leaderboard * Blockchain explorer * Wallet * Removed Offline Nodes * * Earn $ with "Rate my node" challenge *Rate My Node submissions * * Earn $ by creating tools for Elrond * * Announcements channel * KYC * DM the Admin * * Elrond is imminent *

🏳️ Patch v1.0.65 released & Cease fire! Hello Nodes Team, I'm sure you heard about "blockchain never sleeps" before, but our devs take everything to the next level. So after the "Red Sharding" attack last night, we already have a new patch released. A cease fire, meaning no more attacks, is in effect. Out of respect for #ratemynode authors and their supporters, let's give the blockchain a breather so voting can happen. 🤩 One of the most awesome patches yet, v1.0.65 preserves the state of the previous blockchain to some extent, meaning all the balances from earlier today are restored in this new patch. 🎖 MIssion #6 therefore carries on as originally planned 😃 Fun fact: a typo caused the version of the binary to be "1.0.65", without the "v", which caused an endless update loop. This patch shall henceforth be known as: " " for " endetta" ⚠️ Some of the Elrond infrastructure is not up to date. explorer.elrond.com will therefore not display correct info until it gets some love from our sys admins, which should be Soon(tm) 📊 Known issues to the Leaderboards make it so a few new nodes are not displayed or have incorrect scores. The data exists, we just need to display it properly. Ideally we fix this all on Monday! 💪 #ratemynode is going strong! 28 entries so far, a lot of Medium claps and Twitter action. Reading them has been informative, hilarious and most of all, an honor. Seeing so much dedication from node runners is truly awe inspiring. You guys! 🙌 🏳️ Cease fire until Monday 23 December 12:01 UTC, end of monitoring time for Shadowshards. The clever attacks executed so far exploited issues that we are yet to fix. This new patch is just a blockchain restart. Please let's end this battle peacefully, for the respect of the authors of #ratemynode and people voting for them. And people playing "No, Thanks" “You run a node for so long, you forget who you were before it.” - S for Shardetta ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 ——————————————————— * Installing and maintaining a node - cheatsheet * GitHub - submit issues and PRs * Leaderboard * Blockchain explorer * Wallet * Removed Offline Nodes * * Earn $ with "Rate my node" challenge *Rate My Node submissions * * Earn $ by creating tools for Elrond * * Announcements channel * KYC * DM the Admin * * Elrond is imminent *