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DISCUSSION15 results
Discussionforum · last post 2021-07-15
P2P Validator
P2P Validator provides secure non-custodial staking for institutional clients in 20+ top-notch networks. Our team has valuable experience in decentralized…
Discussionforum · last post 2022-12-06
Validator Stealing
…crypto fund and I had a basic question Is it possible for a validator to just take the NEAR we’ve staked with them? Once we’ve delegated our stake then technically they have custody correct? What’s to…
Discussionforum · last post 2023-03-23
Validator Community Group
Introducing the Validator Community Group We are thrilled to announce the formation of the Validator Community Group, a dedicated community bringing together…
Discussionforum · last post 2023-01-29
Proposal: Increase validator stake decentralization by reordering locked tokens to another validators
…k only producer for a month. There are some questions about validators economy and getting profit for validation in mainnet or at least breakeven point. StakeWars III DNP Delegation discussion [Research]…
Discussionforum · last post 2022-01-21
[Urgent] Aurora Validator, Decentralisation Concerns
tldr; Aurora (network) is launching the Aurora Validator with an aggressive $Aurora rewards scheme that threatens to destabilise, weaken and potentially take over the network. These concerns…
Discussionforum · last post 2023-01-30
Openshards Validator Outage Jan '23
The OpenShards pool experienced an outage on Jan 29th, 2023. Root cause: Network connectivity issue at its NYC data center. Fix applied: A failover was attempted on the backup node, but it had fallen …
Discussionforum · last post 2026-02-19
HSP-002: Validator Support Program
…uest for Comment (RFC) to gather insights and feedback from validators, token holders, and the broader community. No voting will take place at this stage. The aim is to collect constructive input and …
Discussionnear/nearcore · Ideas · jakmeier
Remove gas from NEAR Protocol UX
…harged by 10x. This leads to heavy under utilization of the validator's hardware. My proposal doesn't improve or hurt this second point. It just rephrases it to $NEAR instead of gas. And with [NEP-455](https://github.com/near/NEPs/pull/455)…
Discussionnear/NEPs · Ideas · bowenwang1996
Some thoughts on fraud proofs and phase 2 of sharding
…ow, one important feature of phase 2 of sharding is that no validator node needs to track all shards. In order to achieve that, the current nightshade design relies on hidden validators and fishermen …
Discussionforum · last post 2021-05-13
[Official] List of NEAR Validators
Dear NEAR Staking Forum members, this is a curated list of validators who have an official presence on this forum. Use this thread to browse them, and make an informed decision on where to stake your…
Discussionforum · last post 2021-02-19
Proposal: random shuffle of Validators list
Alphabetical order of validators on the staking page is wrong and gives motivation to pools to abuse it by naming like “00001_pool” or “aaa_pool”. Lets reshuffle …
Discussionforum · last post 2022-04-22
[Meta Pool] Call for validators 🗣️
…, we are opening a closed channel in our Discord Server for validators. Screen Shot 2022-04-22 at 10.17.38 486×882 66.4 KB This is intended have a close communication with the validators owners/keepers…
Discussionnear/nearcore · Core Team Updates · mzhangmzz
Weekly Update 10/04/2022
…it/a10b5d7ce07eba25a0948ecb40ac452dc2b38bff) - Debugged why validators missed chunks for the first epoch after the protocol upgrade. Not sure why. The issue disappeared after the first epoch. We had discussions…
Discussionnear/nearcore · Node Public Interfaces · frol
Weekly update 2021-05-20
… new design of [Nodes page](https://explorer.near.org/nodes/validators)** :tada: https://github.com/near/near-explorer/pull/613 (kudos to @shelegdmitriy) * **exposed protocol configuration information…
Discussionnear/near-api-js · Ideas · strangeweb3guy
ViewContract or why do I need to create an account if I want to use only query methods?
…Config); const account = await near.account(""); return new ValidatorContract(account, config.poolId); ``` with an empty string, otherwise, I am not able to use the Contract, it is not an obvious thing…
DOC10 results
Docdocs
Validators
Learn about NEAR Protocol validators, their roles in network security, consensus mechanisms, validator economics, and how to become a validator. At its core, NEAR Protocol…
Docdocs
Staking & Delegation
Validator selection, delegation, withdrawal availability, and staking-pool custody. NEAR delegation uses staking-pool contracts to manage delegated…
Docnomicon
Selecting Chunk and Block Producers
…y `epoch_length`. • To meet the requirement that any chosen validator will be selected to produce at least one chunk/block in the epoch, we assume it is acceptable for the probability of this not happening…
Docdocs
Staking NEAR Tokens
Learn how to stake NEAR, delegate to validators, track rewards, and withdraw staked tokens safely. You can delegate NEAR tokens to a validator to help secure the network and earn…
Docdocs
Random Numbers
…eed` is **deterministic and verifiable**: it comes from the validator that produced the block signing the previous block-hash with their private key. The way the random seed is created implies two things:…
Docdocs
Sunsetting a Staking Pool
…s. If you are a stake pool owner and want to wind down your validator service, follow these steps to ensure delegators can safely recover their funds. *** ## Step 1: Notify Delegators Before making any…
Docnomicon
Applying chunk
…ply takes following inputs: • trie and current state root • validator_accounts_update • incoming_receipts • transactions and produces following outputs: • new state root • validator_proposals • outgoing_receipts…
Docdocs
Post validators
/openapi.json post /validators Queries active validators on the network. Returns details and the state of validation on the blockchain.
Docdocs
Post experimental validators ordered
/openapi.json post /EXPERIMENTAL_validators_ordered Returns the current epoch validators ordered in the block producer order with repetition. This endpoint is solely used for…
Docdocs
Deploying Your Own Contract
…d token is continuously adjusted based on rewards earned by validators. It’s calculated as `exchange_rate = total_staked_near / total_liquid_token_supply`​ and as staking rewards accumulate each epoch,…
BLOG8 results
BlogNEAR · 2023-09-14
Open Call for Feedback on NEAR Protocol Validator Delegation Proposals
Open Call for Feedback on NEAR Protocol Validator Delegation Proposals Community NEAR Protocol Validator Delegation September 14, 2023 Validators are the backbone of the NEAR Protocol,…
BlogNEAR · 2021-12-02
NEAR Foundation Launches New Validator Program To Further Decentralize the Network
NEAR Foundation Launches New Validator Program To Further Decentralize the Network Community Core protocol December 2, 2021 Since NEAR’s Mainnet launch in October 2020, …
BlogNEAR · 2022-01-07
NEAR Enhances Decentralization with Validator Upgrade
NEAR Enhances Decentralization with Validator Upgrade Developers Core protocol January 7, 2022 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch in October 2020, the network has seen a steady increase…
BlogNEAR · 2021-11-29
NEAR Validator Upgrade Allows Hundreds To Help Secure The Network
NEAR Validator Upgrade Allows Hundreds To Help Secure The Network Developers Core protocol November 29, 2021 Since the NEAR Mainnet launch in October…
BlogNEAR · 2022-11-21
NEAR Transparency Report: the State of Staking
… circulating supply. The staking total is spread across 131 validators, which is up on last month’s total validator number of 126, a four percent increase in the decentralization of the network. The seat…
BlogNEAR · 2025-07-02
All You Need to Know about the Proposal to Reduce NEAR’s Inflation Rate
…cipate: • Learn more about the proposal or comment here . • Validators can vote on the proposal directly at https://vote.linearprotocol.org/ • Share your opinion on incentive programs for validators and…
BlogNEAR · 2020-10-30
How the NEAR Foundation is Supporting Network Decentralization
…an support the stability and security of NEAR by staking to validators. In just a few weeks, more than 250 million NEAR tokens have been staked, representing 25% of all NEAR in existence. We’re overwhelmed…
BlogNEAR · 2020-05-19
Stake Wars Episode II
Stake Wars Episode II Developers May 19, 2020 Return of the Validators NEAR’s MainNet recently launched into its first phase, called “POA” ( see full roadmap ). This means that a small handful of validating…
VIDEO5 results
VideoNEAR Protocol · 2024-03-04
[Protocol technical on-boarding series] Block producers and validators (February 22nd, 2023)
… the block the the block producer um block producer is this validator a um it it it knows it is the block producer based on some criteria that we'll talk about later but but it looks at it looks at the…
VideoNEAR Protocol · 2019-02-07
'Sharding Research' by Alex Skidanov | Graph Day | Blockchain
…have you know ten ten ten block chains we cannot expect all validators validate all the block chains because they once they start validating one they are at capacity and that means that validators are…
VideoNEAR Protocol · 2024-02-14
Stake Wars IV: Attack of Transactions w/ Illia Polosukhin & Bowen Wang
…eturn allow to have more shards in the network have uh most validators have lower Hardware requirements and uh in increase throughput of each individual sh as well by putting State into memory uh we can…
VideoNEAR Protocol · 2018-12-12
Sharding with OmniLedger and NEAR | Stanford Blockchain Club
…e and thereby he's broadcasting it to the network the other validators in the network check that the proof is correct and then they extend the copy of their of their blockchain and thereby you have a …
VideoNEAR Protocol · 2021-07-13
NEAR Blockchain Concepts (2/6) -- Genesis, Epochs, and Validation
… sure that it it runs for a while and then we onboarded our validators to the network so that so in initially our plan was to you know collect all the distributed parties and aggregate the genesis file…
GITHUB15 results
GitHubValidator
Meta Pool
Meta Pool is the liquid staking solution for NEAR and wNEAR token holders. Users staking NEAR and wNEAR with Meta Pool receive in exchange a NEP-141 standard token, stNEAR (staked NEAR). The stNEAR to…
GitHubUtilities
NEAR Validator Watcher + Node Stats
## **NEAR Validator Watcher** – A Telegram bot + Web platform to help users monitor validators and stake on NEAR Protocol ### NodeStats is a web app that allows you - Monitor the validator's uptime - …
GitHubnear/nearcore · issue #16731 · open
Chunk witnesses are dropped with no retry after a skipped height (PV87+) and in two orphan-pool races
…e witnesses get dropped in three places with no retry, so a validator never endorses the chunk. The worst case is right after a skipped height: if most validators are still processing the parent block,…
GitHubnear/nearcore · issue #16729 · open
A restart during a shard split can strand the node or let GC delete the new shards' state
…rent; after the next restart the node stops at 73 while the validator reaches 81 | | Same, memtries on | Restart fails with `MemTrieLoadingError` | | Crash before split commit | Node stuck at 17 while…
GitHubnear/nearcore · release · 2026-10-26
2.14.0
…eprecated `num_block_producer_seats_per_shard`, `avg_hidden_validator_seats_per_shard`, and `num_chunk_only_producer_seats` fields from `EpochConfig`. They were given serde defaults in 2.12 and are unused.…
GitHubnear/nearcore · release · 2026-09-16
2.14.0-rc.1
…eprecated `num_block_producer_seats_per_shard`, `avg_hidden_validator_seats_per_shard`, and `num_chunk_only_producer_seats` fields from `EpochConfig`. They were given serde defaults in 2.12 and are unused.…
GitHubnear/nearcore · release · 2026-06-03
2.12.0
…figView`: `num_block_producer_seats_per_shard`, `avg_hidden_validator_seats_per_shard`, `num_chunk_only_producer_seats`. * New `EXPERIMENTAL_receipt_to_tx` RPC method that resolves a receipt ID back to…
GitHubnear/nearcore · release · 2026-05-25
2.12.0-rc.1
…figView`: `num_block_producer_seats_per_shard`, `avg_hidden_validator_seats_per_shard`, `num_chunk_only_producer_seats`. * New `EXPERIMENTAL_receipt_to_tx` RPC method that resolves a receipt ID back to…
GitHubnear/mpc · release · 2026-04-16
3.9.0
…6)(@gilcu3): *(test)* Localnet script deleting non-existing validator config file (#2896) - [#2892](https://github.com/near/mpc/pull/2892)(@netrome): Use `curve` instead of `scheme` in `vote_add_domain`…
GitHubnear/nearcore · pr #16740 · open
doc(nomicon): fix light client validation and outcome proof hashing
…_next` counts as not signed. - `ChainSpec/LightClient.md`: `ValidatorStakeView` is shown as the versioned enum, and the `next_bp_hash` check says how the version tag is hashed. - `ChainSpec/LightClient.md`…
GitHubnear/nearcore · issue #16733 · open
Catch-up drops a fork block that commits just after its parent is marked done, and the node stalls on that branch
…es, and nodes with rotating tracked shards. Stateless chunk validators never catch up. - **Window:** about one catch-up step (100 ms by default plus apply time), at the end of the post-state-sync chase.…
GitHubnear/nearcore · pr #16728 · open
test(spice): upgrade testing machinery
…file. - Profile A is the default: 4 producers, 3 chunk-only validators, 2 shards and an epoch length of 21. - Profile B is used by fallback: 14 validators, 6 shards and an epoch length of 27. - The resolver…
GitHubradar · 2026-10-26
[CRITICAL] Protocol upgrade 86 → 88 on mainnet
…87 from 2026-11-04T00:00 UTC, 88 from 2026-11-06T00:00 UTC. Validators and RPC node operators must run the new nearcore before voting starts; contracts relying on removed features break at the switch …
GitHubAnalytics
near.ad - Realtime intelligence for the NEAR ecosystem
Real-time intelligence for the NEAR ecosystem - 142.37 Network metrics, staking, validators, Intents volume, Ecosystem pulse - and prediction markets coming next.
GitHubAI
Public AI
## Public AI Public AI - AI data infra: open to every human contributing data to train AI and sharing the revenue. The team includes world-class AI scientists, IEEE fellows, professors, and PhDs. Miss…