MultiversX Validators Announcements

📊 Leaderboards update! Hello Nodes Team, The long awaited update of the scores is done, go check it out (link) ⏱ Scores are updated until 22 November 14:00 UTC (end of Round 1 Phase 2) ⏳ Final scores will be processed over the weekend (official end is 06 December 23:59 UTC) and published early on Monday 🎖 Mission #5 scores were normalized to decrease the leaderboard jumps from 600 spots to max 200-ish 🤔 Why? Raw scores caused leaderboard shifts of 600 positions in some cases, it was game breaking. Sorry, we're not game designers, but we're fair, so we normalized the results 🧐 How: We decreased the overall Mission score value from 50% per day to 25% per day, so from a total of 20.000 points per node to just 10.000. We applied a cubic root to smoothen the differences. Logarithms are nicer, but our core devs are busy, so we had the old man calculate them by hand instead 🧮 Wanna have a look at our internal score sheets? Here you go (link) 🤬 "Changing the rules of the game is wrong!" - yes, it is! But the context is different than our plans. We wanted this week to be a high TPS environment that would even the playing field, but didn't get that. Revisit this post (link) please! We hope you get a feeling about how we calculate the scores better and we trust you will understand our decision to make sure that Mission #5 was fun, rewarding and not a game breaker ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📢 New Scripts Are Up! Hello Nodes Team, We have a new version of scripts that will help solve the current problems reported with the installation and autoupdate scripts 👉 Please do: follow the steps described in the cheatsheet (link) to update your client and scripts ⏱️ Please get this done before Friday 06 December 14:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡️

📣 Patch v1.0.54 is live Hello Nodes Team, There is another version out! It fixes some earlier issues and sneaks in some finalized features. Sadly, it didn't take because of old databases or un-restarted nodes. 👉 Please do: check your node version. If it's not v1.0.54 as of 18:00 UTC, your autoupdater is not working. Please let us know so we can help you fix it! 📊 No version penalty for anyone. @KoenApps 's arguments echoed justice and truth. Until we have super stable and easy to understand procedures, #nobodygetsleftbehind So we're also not penalizing over the weekend 🧐 Remember to check our updated cheatsheet (link) for fixing your issues with our new tool 🚧 Immediately after the blockchain started, it is obvious someone did not delete their database and tries feeding its peers higher nonces than have happened ⏱ New patch soon. Autoupdater ❤️ "Yo dawg, we heard you like patches, so we patched our patches to issue a patch for your unpatched nodes to be patched with!" - Shardzibit ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

🏆 Get ready to claim your rewards! Hello Nodes Team, Battle off Nodes is nearing completion and the rewards are nigh! Let's make sure everyone is ready to claim them. 💎 Your well earned rewards will be paid out on Monday 09 December before 23:59 UTC 👉 Please do: if you're uncertain about your KYC status, check it here (link) . If you are not "whitelisted" (successful), please email support@westart.co with "ElrondBoN" in the email subject, to get priority! Let @SeverMM know if you're not getting a solution by Friday evening 👌 KYC Tier 2 is what you need! 👉 Please do: check our KYC's partner account participation page (link) for the provided BEP2 wallet - is it accurate, do you own the private key, do you need to update it for any reason? Please take the needed action, so you are sure you own the wallet we send your rewards to! 👉 Make sure you provide a BEP2 address you created via Binance DEX or Trustwallet, NOT a Binance CEX one! We can't send payments with memos. ⚠️ Any changes you want to make to any of your details regarding payments after Sunday 08 December 23:59 UTC should ONLY be made via dm to @SeverMM - we plan to make payments on Monday 09 December so we will use WeStart data from monday morning! 📊 Leaderboard update coming soon, with some score explanations. We made the score formula to be super fair by looking at the real data. Also, Mission #5 brings an interesting dynamic that required adaption to keep things in proportion ⏱ Last minute GitHub issues/pulls to share in the vulnerability pool this round? 🧐 Make sure you read the important prize related information in the latest BoN Medium post (link) ! 🔥 The explosive Shadowshards is around the corner! Battle of Nodes participants carry over automatically. "This is the way BoN ends, not with a whimper but a bang" - T. S. Shardiot ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 Patch v1.0.52 is out! Hello Nodes Team, Time to put these robots to some serious work. Patch v1.0.52 is out! 👉 Please do: NOTHING! If the autoupdate works, awesome. If not, we'll be in touch. ⏱ Official monitoring for Round 4 of Phase 2 starts on 05 December 12:00 UTC - one hour from now. No patch penalties for now, as we struggle to get everyone on the autoupdater running. But being online is important! "sudo make node work good ok" - Sever tries Linux ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

Introducing Battle of Nodes Shadowshards - with a $30.000 total prize pool over two hardcore weeks, newcomers will get the chance to join veteran validators in an all-out-battle where everything goes. All about it👇🏻 https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-schedule-next-steps-8725e735967b

🚧 Blockchain in recovery mode! Hello Nodes Team, A change pushed to our own 100-ish nodes 15 minutes ago triggered an edge case. The recovery mechanisms of the protocol have kicked in. We are monitoring as the chain recovers and will keep you guys updated. "I gotta get my tool" - Kip, Gone in 60 Seconds ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 Round 4 of Phase 2 Hello Nodes Team, After having our fun with the new autoupdater, we've made some improvements to how it works and updated the cheatsheet to be a lot more helpful to everyone. It's important to note that all these changes are community driven, based on your feedback, ideas and requests. If ever there was a time to feel proud for having done something together, team, today is one of those times. 👉 Please do: backup your keys 👉 Please do: follow the updated cheatsheet (link) carefully and step by step. This will install the latest client version and configure the autoupdater ⚠️ Carefully check every step of the process, compare the output with the cheatsheet. Please report any inconsistencies in the chat so that we may fix them ⏱ Official monitoring for Round 4 of Phase 2 starts on 05 December 12:00 UTC 📊 @alwin79 & @KoenApps keeping things real for everyone, thank you guys! "First Time Again" - The Walking Slashed ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 Round 3.2 of Phase 2 Hello Nodes Team, Autoupdaters are fun. We released patch v1.0.47! 👉 Please do: backup your keys, update your nodes to the latest version 👉 If autoupdater doesn't yet work: - navigate to "elrond-go-scripts-v2" folder - do "git pull" - follow the steps in the cheatsheet (link) ⏱ Monitoring for Round 3.2 of Phase 2 will start on 04 December 23:59 UTC 🙏 Thank you all for helping each other out! We're lucky to have you guys. "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl! 🛡

📣 Round 3.1 of Phase 2 Hello Nodes Team, Round 3 of Phase 2 started on time, 03 December 2019 20:00 UTC. But then... well, shard happens. We sent out a special transaction as a test before starting Mission #6, but it got a different response from the metashard than we expected. The metachain tried recovering for a bit, but it wasn't going to recover. So we issued a new release. 👉 Please do: backup your keys, update your nodes to the latest version 👉 If autoupdater doesn't yet work: - navigate to "elrond-go-scripts-v2" folder - do "git pull" - follow the steps in the cheatsheet (link) 📊 Nodes that were online at 20:00 UTC with patch v1.0.44 will get full score, nodes with v1.0.42 will get 80% of the score ⏱ Monitoring for Round 3.1 of Phase 2 will start on 04 December 23:59 UTC 🙏 Thank you all for helping each other out! We're lucky to have you guys. "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." - Frank Herbert ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl! 🛡

📣 Round 3 of Phase 2 & Autoupdater Hello Nodes Team, Our new patch and installation tool and autoupdater are finally here! 👉 Please do: backup your keys, delete existing databases 👉 Install patch v1.0.42 by using our new installation scripts & enable autoupdate 🧐 Follow the instructions in the readme.md (link) or get started with this cheatsheet (link) <- authored by @IulianPascalau ! 🎞 Check out this super detailed video guide (link) by our own @Micabytes 📊 Round 2 of Phase 2 ended just as it was starting, Monday 02 December 19:00 UTC. If your node was online with v1.0.41 at that time, congratulations: you got 5.000 points - the maximum score for Phase 2 of Round 2 ⏱ Round 3 of Phase 3 officially starts Tuesday 03 December 20:00 UTC ⚠️ Please make sure to have v1.0.42 running with autoupdate, patch v1.0.43 will arrive Tuesday 03 December 20:01 UTC, version scoring starts Tuesday 03 December 20:30 UTC "This release shall henceforth be known as Episode III: Return of the Seedth" - Valley of Wolves ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl! 🛡

📣 End of Round 2 of Phase 2 & Next Steps Hello Nodes team, Round 2 of Phase 2 will end tonight. We're then going to launch a new patch, together with our installer and autoupdater. We're giving you guys an uptime score for all nodes online with v1.0.41 at the right time! Bonus announcement of Shadowshards 👉 Please do: install v.1.0.41 if you haven't already, make sure your node is online on Monday 02 December 19:01 UTC (Today!) 📊 Nodes running v1.0.41 at 19:01 UTC will get a flat 5.000 points added to their score for Round 2 of Phase 2 ⏱ Stay tuned for a 19:00 UTC announcement with the new patch and installer. The 24 hours notice will apply, for the last time! 🤩 Battle of Nodes will keep to its scheduled payouts, and be extended with more rewards! - scoring for BoN will be over on Friday 06 December 23:59 UTC - payouts for leaderboards, top accounts (*important note), community and security (*important note) will be done in max 3 days after - Battle of Nodes: Shadowshards will start Saturday 07 December 0:01 UTC. Details soon! *️⃣ - Top accounts & Vulnerability are both prizes that we linked to exploiting the network somehow. The attacking action will mostly be done in Shadowshards, so the payment for these parts will be explained in detail in a future post about the BoN follow-up. (spoiler: we pay more money overall, with some reasonable changes) "Shadowbringers, Shadowkeep, Shadowlands... it's been done to death. We need something original, guys!" "I got just the thing..." ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl! 🛡

📣 Official Patch Release and Round 2 of Phase 2 Start Hello Nodes Team, Weekends are great - everyone recognizes your right to be left alone and do the things you love most. Which we embrace fully, so we can focus on our work. We're counting on you guys being normal people, so even if we're launching the patch on a Saturday, we will only start monitoring on Monday. 👉 Please do: Backup your keys, delete the old database, set up the latest version of the node, restore keys, start node ▪️ Linux installation guide ⚠️ Does not work on Windows ▫️ MacOs installation guide ⏱ This announcement is in effect as of Saturday 30 November 19:00 UTC. Official uptime monitoring starts Monday 2 December 19:00 UTC, 48 hours (because of the weekend) from the announcement. Be sure to update your nodes before that time. ⏲ The genesis time was Friday 29 November 11:00 UTC ⚙️ Relevant tags: v1.0.41 and BoN-ph2-w2 👻 Remember: we removed ghost nodes. We defined a node as "ghost" if it was offline for 7 days or more during Rounds 4 & 5 from Phase 1 👨‍🍳 The installation & auto-updater tool are still in the oven, our chefs are cooking around the clock 🖼 Bye-bye Windows! This patch will not work. This is the last call to move to Linux! "I've ran out of emoticons." - not Sever ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 Final Phase 1 Scores are up Hello Nodes Team, The final Phase 1 scores have been uploaded. You will see how 153 nodes share the first place with max score, trailed 350 nodes with less than 10% score difference. Phase 2 will rock the leaderboards, though! 👌 We see the current tight scores as a success in terms of how you guys managed to keep the nodes online, patched on time and also do missions. Good job, team! 📊 The Leaderboard is updated with Phase 1 scores 👉 What will you do with your ERD holdings at mainnet? Please help us plan the mainnet launch as good as we can by filling in this survey (link) ⏳ Auto-updater & next patch: Soon(tm), not today, likely tomorrow. Please follow this channel for the official announcement "Honey, why is the heat not working?" - #nopressure ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

📣 Purging Ghost Nodes! Hello Nodes Team, While we wait for the new rating system, which will dynamically adapt the shards to discard "lazy" nodes, we are manually removing some ghost nodes. This will increase the liveliness of shards and allow for higher TPS for our tests. 👻 We defined a node as "ghost" if it was offline for 7 days or more during Rounds 4 & 5 from Phase 1 👉 Please find the nodes to be purged at this sheet (link). If you find your node there and want to turn it back on, please let @SeverMM know about it. 👴🏼 Thanks in advance for not trolling the old man, he foams at the mouth quite easily. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! ⚔️

⏳ Auto-Updater delayed, Round 2 of Phase 2 starts "normally" Hello Nodes Team, The Auto-Updater will not be ready today. We decided to do a number of changes all at once, so we do it right from the get-go. New features: 🔹 running the Elrond nodes as daemons - for the Windows guys: the "service" equivalent on Linux 🔹 having a very competitive set of installation, update and auto-update scripts - competitive as in "you guys raise the bar so high, we feel obliged to keep up". Thank you for that! 🔹 an updated TerminalUI - the nice window with all the node info 🔹 proper tests for everything Thank you for understanding regarding these timeline changes. Until further notice, the overall Battle of Nodes timeline stays unchanged: we finish on 06 December. ⏱ Patch v1.0.41 is undergoing tests and ideally comes Tuesday 26 November (time tbd). Monitoring for Round 2 of Phase 2 starts 24 hours after the patch will be launched. 🖼 Windows guys! Are there any of you left? We really don't want to make this unfair to anyone - if you're still running a native Windows client, please shift to Linux! Just ask in the channel and let's get you the help you need to come over to the dark side. "It's ready when it's ready" - ex-project manager ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

⏳ Auto-updater status Hello Nodes Team, Our auto-update solution has become a lot more elegant than initially planned, but also created one additional dependency, which needs a bit more work. 👉 Please stay tuned for the official announcement of the auto-updater tool and relevant instructions. ⏱ We'll communicate again latest in 6 hours with an update. Thank you for your patience, it's needed for us to do everything right. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

🎬 Closing Round 1 of Phase 2 Hello Nodes Team, Round 1 of Phase 2 is now over! It was a very good run, thanks for all your participation. We had the epic 5 Generals mission, our longest round yet, TPS was nice, some new errors were found, fun was had by all. 📊 Monitoring has stopped Friday 22 November 14:00 UTC, exactly 1 week after the start of Round 1. It is now safe to turn off all nodes until Monday (please read below) 🚧 Shard 2 had troubles adding new blocks for the last 14 hours or so. We actually know why for a long time and the development for the improvement is done and it will be included in the next patch. So we grow! 📡 An automatic update script is being tested right now. We will offer it to you guys on Monday 25 November 12:00 UTC (estimate). From that point over, all nodes will have 24hrs time to opt into using the script. After the 24 hour grace period, a patch will be issued. The Latest Version penalty will henceforth be decreased from 24 hours to just 1 hour. 🧐 Why an auto-updater: This is so we can release patches faster, restart the blockchain faster and overall be more confident about spamming the network. Remember that Phase 3 is coming as well, recovering from those deadly attacks will be interesting! 👉 Please do: make sure you watch this announcement channel in the 24 hour period starting with Monday 25 November 12:00 UTC and onwards for the autoupdater instructions. 👌 Delete the databases, they are no longer needed, Round 2 starts fresh 👻 While we wait for the hot new rating system to clean out offline nodes and low performing ones, ghost nodes will be purged. 70-ish nodes haven't been online in a while, so we will remove them in Round 2 of Phase 2. They can be re-added to the next Round, if you decide to turn them back on. "Some say Mondays are terrible. Nothing a new patch can't fix." - aspiring ex-smoker ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl! 🛡

🚧 Shard 2 is stuck Hello Nodes Team, Shard 2 hasn't added a new block in more than 9 hours. There are ongoing discussions and checks, a decision on the topic will come soon. We will communicate back in maximum 3 hours with a status and next steps. 📊 Scoring will be unaffected, we will communicate exactly the decision to make things fair. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

🎥 Battle of Nodes Recap & Next Steps Hello Nodes Team, We're working to bring you a very friendly and non-intrusive Validator client auto-update tool. In the meantime we're increasing and decreasing TPS and interpreting results. 🎖 The next mission will be to update your node in under 1 hour from the patch release with this tool. The tool will be released at time "x", then a new patch will be issued at time "x + 24 hr" and mission scoring will happen at time "x + 25hr". You will have a 24 hours interval to deploy the auto-update tool on your node and then we plan to see all nodes updated within 1 hour from the new patch. "x" = soon(tm) 📊 To even out scoring between those who had full uptime but no time for missions and those who dilligently did missions even if they couldn't maintain 100% uptime, we're normalizing the score for the coming period. Please check the current calculations here - feedback welcome! 🖼 Still running on Windows? You're OK and getting 100% score for Round 1 of Phase 2. Please consider migrating towards Linux for Round 2 of Phase 2, we will only award 80% of score for Windows clients starting then (date not announced). Do the poll and reach out if you still need help: https://t.me/ElrondValidators/33137 💌 In the meantime, our war correspondent writes home to his wife about his experiences on the battle #fiedl. A romanced recap of the Battle of Nodes event so far: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/tales-of-war-a-letter-from-the-front-line-950ff6b5b465 "The toughest mission so far challenged the trust we have in one another and had us doubt our comrades. They wanted to re-enact the Byzantine Generals problem and have us risk it all on trusting just a few of us. But we pulled through, thanks to our field medic and his heavy lifting robot." ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡