MultiversX Validators Announcements

📣 Release v1.0.124 is out Hello Nodes team, This release is a hotfix to address some outstanding issues and to add the much needed "jailed" information - soon available in the explorer as well. 💰 Hotfix means state is retained, so the previous rich are still rich. Drop your erd1... wallet address in the chat along with a polite request and you'll get test xERD 🐦 Retweet for awareness: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1267933796801929216?s=20 ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Perform KYC | Install up to 6 nodes | Register your nodes

📋 Battle of Nodes: Onchained - Registration Cheatsheet 1. Perform KYC (link) 2. Install up to 6 nodes - official guide (link) 3. Register your nodes in the form (link) 4. Join Announcements & Chat 👇 Important: • Observers: will be converted to Validators with a new patch, no action needed yet • Wallet: each node must have its own wallet, for mission tracking • Form: If you made a mistake, fill it in completely again and we will only consider the latest entry • KYC: If you were in Battle of Nodes before and successfully performed KYC, no need to do it again • Email: use the same one in KYC and the form • Rewards: Both ERC20 & BEP2 addresses are fine, just no exchanges and make sure you own the private keys • Max score: have your nodes ready Thursday 04 June 12:00 UTC • Registration: open until Monday 08 June 10:00 UTC • Leaderboards, Scoring, Prizes & other details will be released soon ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Perform KYC | Install up to 6 nodes | Register your nodes | Announcements Channel | Validators chat

✅ We are ready. Battle of Nodes: Onchained Starts Thursday 4th of June The Elrond blockchain is ready to launch. We are submitting it for one last public round of testing to showcase its capabilities ahead of minting the 💥 Genesis Block. Battle of Nodes: Onchained will demonstrate Elrond’s readiness to fulfil the internet’s need for a layer of trust which scales with needs & expectations. “Battle of Nodes: Onchained is the final and most important step before the Elrond mainnet. Through it, we will demonstrate a robust and performant network leading to the launch. This is a remarkable milestone, and once 15 days have passed where the network runs without interruptions in a high TPS environment, we will know Elrond is ready to go live.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO The final testnet challenge sets the stage for launching our mainnet as a catalyst for adoption exactly now when market sentiment, consumer attention and enterprise appetite are bursting with interest. Read the official announcement: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/we-are-ready-battle-of-nodes-onchained-starts-thursday-4th-of-june-7765a8f871fe RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1267805432493551619?s=20

📣 Release v1.0.123 is out Hello Nodes team, For this latest release, we only included validators which were active and running the latest version of the Elrond software. This was how we used to do things also before the Peer Rating and node shuffling. We decided to go back to this approach due to a (small) number of nodes with issues that were forgotten on auto-pilot and creating irelevant issues. 💰 First 10 validators to post their erd1... addresses will become testnet rich. Please be kind and pass it forward to those asking for xERD, so testing can happen! 🐦 Retweet for awareness: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1267577851404001282?s=20 ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Guidelines for Genesis Validators | Staking Calculator | Register a Node | How to setup a node| 👉 Help us test | Submit an issue

📣 Release v1.0.119 v1.0.120 is out Hello Nodes team, This latest release is packed with improvements and bugfixes. The TxPool was rehauled for increased performance, flood protection and correct processing 💰 First 10 validators to post their erd1... addresses will become testnet rich. Please be kind and pass it forward to those asking for xERD, so testing can happen! ⏱ Genesis time 16:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Guidelines for Genesis Validators | Staking Calculator | Register a Node | How to setup a node| 👉 Help us test | Submit an issue

🌎 The Elrond Validators We’re minting the 💥 Genesis Block in good company. There is nothing left to chance in the imminent $ERD ecosystem launch. Handpicking the starting Validator line-up is a privilege not many projects have. We do have it, and we are grateful for it 🙏 “Our node runners are enthusiasts that not only understand what makes the Elrond blockchain tick but put in the necessary effort of making it do so. They challenge the team with clever questions, raise issues and ask for features.” Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO We have selected the Validators to mint the genesis block with us. We will use the full extent of our own knowledge, the ideas of our community and the experience of our professional partners to put together the most secure, highly-available, performant and robust network to launch our mainnet on. Find out more about our Validators in our blog post https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-validators-df51f09ec93e?sk=a1de670061409b9aee1cc5bd2c3aa5a7 RT: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1265228915787927552?s=20

📣 Release v1.0.118 is out Hello Nodes team, The latest releases fixes a few last-minute bugs and restores functionality. Your testing and feedback were instrumental for this release 🙏 💰 First 10 validators to post their erd1... addresses will become testnet rich. Please be kind and pass it forward to those asking for xERD, so testing can happen! ⏱ Genesis time 23:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Guidelines for Genesis Validators | Staking Calculator | Register a Node | How to setup a node| 👉 Help us test | Submit an issue

💥 Genesis Validators: From 🟡 to 🟢 Hello Nodes Team, Already 220 of the allocated community nodes have their collateral staked. That's a great achievement. 📑 Those who got whitelisted and did not stake yet, we encourage you to complete the process within the next few days. ⏳ To those patiently waiting: thank you. We are processing the remaining open slots and clarifying the situation of those who did not stake yet. Wave 2 will be announced soon and we will contact you via DM - you won't miss the news if you are accepted. 🛠 Rewards are already being accumulated and so too our work together begins. Here are the expectations we have of Genesis Validators for the next few weeks leading up to the mainnet launch: 🖥 Run at least 1 node in BoNwards (now) ⚔️ Join Battle of Nodes. Run minimum 1 node for every 5 nodes you staked for Genesis (no action needed now) 💥 Run the exact number of nodes you staked for Genesis in parallel with Battle of Nodes (no action needed now) We appreciate the attention on the above matters. Thank you for embarking on this journey with us. ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Becoming a Mainnet Validator | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | 👉 Help us test | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Release v1.0.117 is out Hello Nodes team, New release is out. Thanks to your testing of our new transactions, several bugs were ironed out. More importantly, nodes can now be shuffled between shards from one epoch to the next. 💰 First 10 validators to post their erd1... addresses will become testnet rich. Please be kind and pass it forward to those asking for xERD, so testing can happen! ⏱ Genesis time 23:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Becoming a Mainnet Validator | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | 👉 Help us test | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

📣 Whitelist status updated - all Veterans are in! Hello Nodes team, The much awaited status regarding Validator whitelisting is here. 🤝 Veterans that participated in previous Battle of Nodes events, as well as those that only joined us earlier this year but ran nodes in BoNwards, are in. What does this mean: • You can stake as Validator on https://genesis.elrond.com • Please use the Ethereum address you submitted via the Whitelist • After you do so, your nodes will be marked as 🟡 “Pending” - that is 👌 correct for this stage ❕ This is not a guarantee that you will make it to the mainnet. Battle of Nodes is ahead of us. Be there, do well, and then the 🟡 “Pending” turns to 🟢 “Accepted”. Running nodes on BoNwards until then will further cement your participation. ⏱ Please stake as early as you can. This locks your pledge in and gives us information about what is still available for newcomers. 🚧 Those who joined us recently and submitted interest to the Whitelist have not yet been approved. This does not mean that you have been rejected. But staking as a Validator is not possible for you at this time. 👉 How to increase your chances of being accepted: Install a new node and register it on the BoNwards form. Be active, engage with the Validators community and help us test 🙏 💬 @SeverMM will send you a DM to inform you if you did NOT get in, so you can make an informed decision about your ERD holdings - whether you want to Delegate now, or work your way into the Mainnet Validators list. 👌 Any changes to the number of nodes & Ethereum addresses is still possible. @luciantodea & @SeverMM will take your questions on the channel.

✅ Introducing the Staking Smart Contract & New Monitoring solution from @flyingstone Hello Nodes team, The Staking SC is a system smart contract that manages the entire staking process. You need to call it from an Elrond wallet and tell it what you want to do with your node(s). It supports a number of functions that you can already try. 💰 Ask for test xERD via DM to 🧙‍ @SeverMM 🌍 Send a transaction from a wallet at https://wallet.elrond.com and using the instructions in the specific command, such as destination address, amount to be sent, gas limit and text in the Data field 👉 Change the Gas Limit by pressing the ▶️ near the Fee Limit ❕ Change the Gas Limit AFTER you put in the transaction data in the Data field 👌 If you are a Validator already and send a stake transaction, you will get your money back. That's normal, you already are a Validator, no need to stake :) 🙏 How to help us testing: 1. 💢 Unstake. 2. Wait 10 epochs (hours) 3. 💢 Unbond and get 2.500.000 ERD 4. ✅ Stake, using more than 2.500.000 5. ❎ Claim the extra stake 6. Turn your node offline and get "jailed" (low rating) 7. 🔰 Unjail 📡 New monitoring project from our community member Flying Stone, check it out in detail here: https://t.me/ElrondValidators/72076 The transactions: ✅ Stake | ⭕️ Unstake | 💢 Unbond | 🔰 Unjail | ♻️ Change Rewards Address | ❎ Claim ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Becoming a Mainnet Validator | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

❎ Claim - if you sent more than 2500000 ERD with your Stake transaction, you can claim the excess. • Address:

erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l

• Amount: 0 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData: claim

♻️ Change reward address - tell the network to send the ERD rewards for your nodes to a different wallet; must be sent from the address used for the stake delegation • Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l • Amount: 0 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData: changeRewardAddress@hex.Encode(bech32Decode(erd1....NEWADDRESS...))

🔰 Unjail - tell the network that your Validator is ready to resume working, after being kicked out because of low rating • Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l • Amount: 2.5 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData: unJail@YourNode’s192BLSkeysFromValidatorKey.pem

💢 Unbonding - tell the network you want to get your stake back after your node stopped being a Validator • Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l • Amount: 0 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData: unBond@YourNode’s192BLSkeysFromValidatorKey.pem

⭕️ Unstaking - tell the network you want to stop being a Validator • Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l • Amount: 0 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData: unStake@YourNode’s192BLSkeysFromValidatorKey.pem

✅ Staking - tell the network you want to add your node as Validator Go to https://wallet.elrond.com, log into the wallet you wish to stake from, and send the following transaction: • Address: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqplllst77y4l • Amount: 2500 • Gas limit: 6000000 • TxData:

stake@0001@YourNode’s192BLSkeysFromValidatorKey.pem@abc123

• Example:

stake@0001@51636e43c2728e9ff56d327df37f8389f573c04265f11ef05ff3c3d730f31724fca5cbc27125f254793100b565c15cdf9bad0b682da2383614457a972292c6ceecfe8b2a7c58d54c6ee908d5cba8225871058b7c8d60e3b54a10959143766b0b@abc123

• Multiple Nodes at once:

stake@0004@BLSKEY1@abc123@BLSKEY2@abc123@BLSKEY3@abc123@BLSKEY4@abc123

• Multiple Nodes at once requires Gas limit of 6000000 x number of nodes included, i.e. 18000000 for 3 nodes • What this means: stake - the command 0001 - the number of nodes string of 192 chars - the BLS public key of your node, get it from validatorKey.pem abc123 - placeholder for a signature. Only use HEX characters (0-9, a-f) here or it will fail The rewards wallet is automatically set to the one you are sending this transaction from.

📣 Release v1.0.115 is live Hello Nodes team, This patch has a lot of important updates and fixes, which you can read about in the release notes. What started out as a mechanism to help with Battle of Nodes scoring has now been perfected into an indispensable component - the ♥️ Heartbeat The seed nodes will henceforth be registered to the ⚔️battleofnodes.com🛡domain. The Submit an issue link has been updated to point to the 🤩 AWESOME new templates ⏱ Genesis time 20:00 UTC ⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl ! 🛡 The correct spelling for BoN: ⚔️♥️🛡 💥 to be added soon. Mainnet Whitelisting Form | Becoming a Mainnet Validator | Validator Calculator | Add BoNwards Node | Install a new node | Monitoring guide | Submit an issue | Earn money in BoNwards

💥 The Elrond Genesis Staking is live You can now go to https://genesis.elrond.com and start the Genesis Staking process. Cheatsheet: 🌍 Create an Elrond wallet 🦊 Have your Metamask wallet ready 💎 Have your $ERD & gas fees in it 🌐 Follow the website instructions 🦸‍♂️ Be a hero in the Elrond story 👌 There are no silly questions when it comes to your own assets. We will do our best to answer any inquiry. ⚠️ Validators: no addresses from the Whitelist form have yet been added - it is not an automated process. Thank you for your patience. The process is covered in detail in our blog post (link). Be sure to read it and the included FAQs, as they will offer useful guidance in the process. RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1260333740678623238?s=20

💥 Genesis Validators - How do I become one? Hello Nodes team, The day of the 💥 Genesis Staking is upon us. As a reminder, we are using this process to do an ERC20 $ERD ⏩ mainnet $ERD token swap while staking. A bit like using Internet Explorer to download Chrome, but your other downloads started on IE automatically resume on Chrome. Easy peasy. ❕ Genesis Staking is different for Validators and Delegators. We will publish clear instructions and detailed guides at start. 🧐 How are Genesis Validators selected? Genesis Validator - a node that will be a Validator on the Elrond mainnet at the 💥 Genesis block. We've started the BonWards testnet multiple times, so you know what that means: if the update comes and your node is in the "nodesSetup.json" ✅ Steps to becoming a Genesis Validator: • Whitelist form: put the number N of nodes you want to run at Genesis & the Ethereum address you will be doing that from • Genesis Staking: stake N * 2.500.000 ERD from the Ethereum address in the Whitelist form • Participate in the next ⚔️ Battle of Nodes 🛡 incentivized testnet event 💚 Higher chances: - you were in the previous two Battle of Nodes events and scored above average - you stayed with us in BoNwards, the un-incentivized testnet that is running now - you are 🛠 Elrond in the true culture sense: willing to put in the work and help others ❎ What if I stake and get rejected? - You can withdraw your Validator stake and follow the Delegator process instead - No rewards calculated for this period - think twice about your chance of being selected, considering the above criteria 🧙‍♂️ DM the old man @SeverMM: - you want to change info in the Whitelist - you are unsure if you will "make it" - have ANY unclarities or questions at all Team, this isn't easy. It requires work and communication. There is A LOT to process. Nobody ever made history by showing up clueless on the day. We are making history, together, well informed and communicating transparently. 💥 Elrond begins.