MultiversX Validators Announcements

📣 Patch v1.0.99 is live Hello Nodes Team, The most elegant attack on our testnet today was signed with this pic, which will henceforth live in infamy. It exploited a bug which was now fixed. New patch, more nodes, more hunting. 👉 Please do: stay safe & validate ⏱ Genesis time: 22:00 UTC "Zug-zug?" - Atouk ⚔️ 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 v1.0.98 is live Hello Nodes Team, The Elrond Bugbusters team stayed up late last night to find all the bugs and spent the whole day fixing them. We get a new patch, with numerous fixes for pruning, end of epoch, nodes coordinator and more. 👉 Please do: stay safe & validate ⏱ Genesis time: 21:00 UTC "If you're seeing things / Running through your shard / Who you gonna call?" ⚔️ 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

🏁 Validators, start your engines! Hello Nodes Team, Patch is coming today! Start your nodes, an "online" snapshot will be made at Tuesday 24 March 12:00 CET, try to be online by then. 👉 Please do: Turn your nodes back on! Online check at 13:00 UTC - offline nodes at that time will NOT make it as Validators in the new patch. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

♻️ Let's take a break! Hello Nodes Team, Thank you for submitting relevant GitHub issues about the current bugs, very helpful. As of now, the dev team determined exactly what the issues are and what is needed to solve them. Standard Sunday evening work call at Elrond. 👉 Please do: turn off your nodes if they incur costs, until the next patch ⏱ Patch should come around Tuesday 24 March 🤖 Register your nodes with @BoNmonitorBot if you haven't ✍️ Register for running a validator on Day 1 of the mainnet via this form (link) 🙏 @Sage_Knight is in our thoughts for a speedy recovery "Standard Sunday evening work call at Elrond." Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Validator Calculator | Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.96 is live Hello Nodes Team, For operators looking to see their nodes become validators, the time has come! The new patch is absolutely epic, it brings Network Sharding, the new anti-flood mechanism, improved peer rating, the latest Arwen VM and more. 👉 Please do: stay safe & validate ⏱ Genesis time: 22:00 UTC "Some people have been saying that, for the Elrond team, the mainnet launch is as serious as a matter of life and death. I can assure you, it is much more serious than that." - innocent bystander ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

The Validators Community Call was engaging, thx to all participants. We’ve had 44 participants for a scheduled 30 minutes quick sync, which turned into a very useful 1h30m conversation. Watch it here https://youtu.be/i7MpSYXbfDw Don't miss @beniaminmincu 's intro about the mainnet launch, development status, Elrond's effective action plan for #COVID19 and more. Watch @luciantodea explaining the Validator Calculator, which can be found here: 🧮 http://bit.ly/Validator-calculator @LucianMincu & several of our core devs managed a brilliant Q&A about the genesis process, staking, delegation, VPS requirements. Best for last: ⚔️Battle of Nodes🛡 starts ~30th of March! Stay tuned for the official announcements. #Elrond is imminent. RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1240957855550918661?s=20

📆 Validators Community Call Time & Date 📣 Patch v1.0.95 is live Hello Nodes Team, Those of you who already generated new keys and registered them in the form are now validators, congrats! Those of you who didn't get a chance to yet, no problem - please do so, new patch with more features is coming soon. Patch v1.0.95 brings ❤️ Peer Rating ❤️ and important changes to the Virtual Machine. The Validators Community Call will happen Thursday 15:00 UTC. 📆 The Validators Community Call is scheduled for Thursday March 19 15:00 - 15:40 UTC - add to calendar (link) 🧮 Main topic: Validator Calculator Meeting Agenda (UTC time) 15:00 - 15:05 Welcome Validators - Beniamin 15:05 - 15:15 Validator Calculator overview - Lucian 15:15 - 15:30 Community Feedback - all 15:30 - 15:40 Validator focused Q&A, closing statements - all 📹 We will do a Zoom video-call, business video-conference etiquette applies 👉 Please do: register your new keys with the bot 🤖 👌 Not a validator yet? Not a problem. Your registered nodes will be added to the next patch “Hope clouds observation.” - last minute notes ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Validator Calculator | Generate New Keys | Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Generate New Keys, GitHub Payments Done, Validators Call Schedule Hello Nodes Team, Our much anticipated change in cryptography is done and deployed via patch v1.0.94. Your validators will update and start as observers - this is normal. There will also not be a running blockchain this round, we first need your new keys for whitelisting. So, you need to generate new keys. We've rewarded the GitHub contributions, thank you to all! Scheduling the validator call turned out tricky, availability is an issue, so we created a poll. 👉 Please do: generate new key pairs for your nodes 1. Update your node to the latest version, either via auto-update or by running ./script.sh upgrade 2. Go to the utils folder and use the key generator to generate new .pem files, by running these commands:

cd $HOME/elrond-utils/
./keygenerator

3. Copy the .pem files to the right directories - node & backup

cp *.pem $HOME/elrond-nodes/node-0/config
zip node-0.zip *.pem
mv node-0.zip $HOME/VALIDATOR_KEYS/

🔁 Repeat for each node, be mindful of the

$HOME/elrond-nodes/node-N/config

correct path 👉 Please do: add the NEW keys to the form (link) 👉 Please do: Validator Community Call - indicate the timeslots that suit your availability in this poll (link) 🏆 GitHub issues have been rewarded, thank you for the contributions, check out the list (link) ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Validator Staking Calculator & Genesis Node Whitelisting Hello Nodes Team, Phase 2 of our bootstrapping process is near. We're excited to launch with 1.500 nodes, which makes us one of the biggest blockchains, straight from Day 1. Here's how you can run a node from the very beginning and start earning some of the most competitive rewards in the PoS space. Battle of Nodes veterans will get the chance to spin up the first nodes, help bootstrap the network and get rewarded for their service. We are creating an overview about how many nodes you want to run, so we can analyze your request and whitelist your application. Please check out the official Validator Calculator to understand the economics of running a node. Please fill in the form with the number of nodes you want to run on Day 1 - be accurate. We will analyze the input and get back to you individually with the allocated number of nodes. Subsequent to our discussion, these numbers will be locked, once you actually stake the needed collateral. 👉 Please do: check out the Validator Calculator (link) 👉 Please do: fill in this form (link) to register the amount of nodes you want to run on day 1, based on actual ERD holdings 📆 We will have a community call with you on Tuesday 17 March 15:00 UTC to collect feedback, proposals & answer your questions - details will be posted on Monday 16 March latest 🙋‍♂️ FAQs: Q: Who is eligible to run a node? A: Battle of Nodes participants with good results have priority. We need trained & competent validators to help us bootstrap the network. In return, your support and hard work up to this point will put you in the first line of receiving full validator rewards from Day 1. Q: When can I stake the needed collateral? A: We will soon launch the transition smart contract from ERC20 tokens to mainnet staking & delegation. It will require native ERD wallet addresses, new validator keys and so on - more info will be released during the next 1-2 weeks.

♻️ Weekend break! Hello Nodes Team, Fixing yesterday's bug will not be done today. We nailed it, but we have a code freeze in effect, so we can merge some big chunks of code into the main branch. Please register your nodes with the bot, and safely turn them off. The bot will ping you to bring them on in time for the patch, likely Monday. 👉 Please do: turn off your nodes if they incur costs. No harm in leaving them on if they don't, of course 🤖 Register your nodes with @BoNmonitorBoT, if you haven't 🧐 New nodes must now be registered in the form AND the bot - it really helps making the old man's life easier ⏱ New patch likely Monday 09 March 💰 GitHub rewards: if you contributed Issues or PRs to our GitHub, please DM @SeverMM with your github name and ERC20 address for some 💎 "Act as though you have it. Be a team player, keep it for yourself." - #nothealthadvice #DYOR ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🚧 Patch v1.0.92 is live-ish Hello Nodes Team, Patch v1.0.91 was dead on arrival, due to the low number of online nodes, or so we thought. As a result, we purged the BoNwards registration. Only the online nodes during v1.0.91 are left. You can check by querying the lovely BoN monitoring bot, @DrDelphi was kind enough to help. Patch v1.0.92 is displaying the same behavior - metachain is not starting and some nodes are not synching. We're troubleshooting. In the meantime, please register your nodes with the bot if you haven't, it will help with the deployments moving forward. 👉 Please do: register your validators with @BoNmonitorBoT 🤖 - click on the bot - type /start - click "Add Node" - add keys as instructed by the bot - press "Nodes Status" ⚠️ If your node is not registered, DM @SeverMM and he will fix 🙏 Again many thanks for investing your resources in the un-registered BoNwards testnet. You guys are making history! ⚔️ 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, Patch is coming today! Start your nodes, an "online" snapshot will be made at Tuesday 03 March 15:00 CET, try to be online by then. 👉 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

📣 Patch v1.0.89 is live Hello Nodes Team, This patch brings Economics v2, has epochs that last 600 rounds = 3600 seconds = 1 hour, p2p rating and a few neat other things. Notably, trie pruning is not in yet. 👉 Please do: if your node is still an observer, DM @SeverMM and the old man will fix it ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

🚧 Patch delayed due to GitHub intermittent failures Hello Nodes Team, There will be a delay with the new patch, as the team is being hindered in their work by GitHub's intermittent failures. https://www.githubstatus.com/ 👉 Please stay tuned & leave your nodes on "Waiting for the battle is still the hardest part 2" - follow-up quotes ⚔️ 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, Patch is coming today! Start your nodes, an "online" snapshot will be made at Thursday 27 February 14:00 CET, try to be online by then. 👉 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

♻️ Break Continues, No Patch Wednesday (today) Hello Nodes Team, The current version we are working with for the next patch still has a known issue that needs to be fixed, and it will not be ready today. Likely tomorrow, stay tuned for announcements on this channel. 👉 Please do: turn off your nodes if they incur costs. No harm in leaving them on if they don't, of course ⏱ We estimate a new patch to be ready Thursday 27 February, watch this channel for announcements "Waiting for the battle is still the hardest part" - follow-up quotes ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

♻️ Short Break for our Nodes Hello Nodes Team, The lack of state trie pruning for our metachain has taken its toll - most of the nodes have reached their allocated storage, which in turn has made adding new blocks impossible. As we prepare the next stable deployment, we can take a break. 👉 Please do: turn off your nodes if they incur costs. No harm in leaving them on if they don't, of course ⏱ We estimate a new patch to be ready Wednesday 26 February, watch this channel for announcements "Waiting for the battle was the hardest part" - improbable quotes ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.88 is live Hello Nodes Team, We share our love for blockchain with you all. New chain is up! 👉 Please do: 💚 ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡

❤️ Special Patch "Less Than Three" Hello Nodes Team, We honor the timeless tradition of spreading the love with what validators like best - a new patch! Star your engines, patch soon. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Patch v1.0.87 is live Hello Nodes Team, This patch brings a few bug fixes. Our "Moby Dick" peer-to-peer bug is still narrowly escaping capture, but Captain @IulianPascalau Ahab is tirelessly hunting it down. 👉 Please do: if your node is still an observer, DM @SeverMM and the old man will fix it "... and if his chest were a cannon he would shoot his heart at the beast" - from the Elrond troubleshooting guide ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Add more nodes | Install a new node | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards