📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.43.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release includes the latest updates that have been deployed to our mainnet.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.43.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 363 Elrond nodes to be removed over 3 days, 121 per day. Starts April 13 (tomorrow).

Hello Fellow Validators,

The removal of Elrond Foundational Nodes starts tomorrow. We will remove ~121 nodes per day, for 3 days in a row, until we reach our 363 nodes target.

⏱ If all goes well, you should see the change in the network as early as tomorrow, Tuesday, April 13, 09:00 UTC

We’re assessing the options for removing even more nodes without compromising security and stability. As soon as we reach a decision on that, we will share that info as well.

As you know, there is a delay between the time a queued node becomes a Validator and the time it is actually producing rewards.

Please consider your nodes’ position in the queue and factor in the time it will take for them to produce rewards.

Thank you for the support!

https://elrond.com/blog/accelerated-decentralization-more-community-nodes/

PS: Testnet upgrade incoming.

📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.46.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release is a mainnet release candidate, and it brings ESDT, NFT & SFTs.

Here's how to build with our token standards: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-tokens-esdt-nft-sft-specs/

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.43.0

⏱ New features activate at Epoch 10, Tuesday April 13 05:00 UTC
- ESDT, NFT, SFT

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

🛠 Reminder about Elrond Foundational Nodes making way for Community nodes: https://t.me/ElrondValidatorsAnn/352

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📣 TESTNET Reset (pre-Upgrade): T1.1.43.1 - Remove DB

Hello Validators,

We will reset the testnet and bring it to the same version as the mainnet. We immediately follow-up with an upgrade.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

✅ We delete the existing TESTNET databases.

🛠 Version: T1.1.43.1

👉 Let's upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh stop
./script.sh remove_db
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

⏱ Genesis time: Wednesday April 14 (today!), 19:00 UTC

• 1 testnet epoch = 2 hours
• unbonding period = 2400 rounds / 2 epochs / 4 hours

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📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.47.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release is a mainnet release candidate, and it brings ESDT, NFT & SFTs.

Here's how to build with our token standards: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-tokens-esdt-nft-sft-specs/

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.47.0

⏱ New features activate at Epoch 7, Thursday April 15 09:00 UTC
- ESDT, NFT, SFT

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.48.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release adds new fields to the getTokenProperties function.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.48.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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🏛 Validators Town Hall Meeting - Friday April 16 11:00 UTC

Hello Validators,

The imminent launch of the Maiar Exchange and Maiar Launchpad will come after an important mainnet upgrade (tokens!). Adoption is about to kick into high gear and we will be prepared.

We invite you to a 1h conversation about the next steps:

1. Decentralization - Elrond Foundational Nodes removal: status
2. Mainnet upgrade - new features and timeline
3. Maiar Exchange & Launchpad - infrastructure implications
4. Q&A session

🔎 Intended audience: people who run a validator on the mainnet, either active or in the queue

📅 Friday April 16 11:00 UTC

Link: https://zoom.us/j/93646157083?pwd=bHVvVDFPTnJ0VVhFOS9mblQ2SGg2QT09
Passcode: 156706

📺 Yes, a recording will be posted.

See you soon, team! 🙌

📣 TESTNET Reset (pre-Upgrade): T1.1.43.2 - Remove DB

Hello Validators,

We will reset the testnet and bring it to the same version as the mainnet. We immediately follow-up with an upgrade.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

✅ We delete the existing TESTNET databases.

🛠 Version: T1.1.43.2

👉 Let's upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh stop
./script.sh remove_db
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

⏱ Genesis time: Friday April 16 (today), 12:30 UTC

• 1 testnet epoch = 2 hours
• unbonding period = 2400 rounds / 2 epochs / 4 hours

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We are LIVE - join now 🟢

1. Decentralization - Elrond Foundational Nodes removal: status
2. Mainnet upgrade - new features and timeline
3. Maiar Exchange & Launchpad - infrastructure implications
4. Q&A session

🔎 Intended audience: people who run a validator on the mainnet, either active or in the queue

📅 Friday April 16 11:00 UTC

Link: https://zoom.us/j/93646157083?pwd=bHVvVDFPTnJ0VVhFOS9mblQ2SGg2QT09
Passcode: 156706

📺 Yes, a recording will be posted.

Elrond Validators Town Hall April 16 REC

Validators Town Hall April 16 - recording

Hello Validators,

We uploaded the call for those of you that missed it.

Highlights:

• 342 Elrond Foundation nodes removed
• Mainnet upgrade tentative timeline: release April 21, new feature activation April 29
• New Exchange & Launchpad implications on infrastructure performance: we want to be prepared.

Important call to action to all Mainnet Validators:
👉 Let's 2x our system specs: 4x dedicated CPUs, 8GB RAM

Why: we are already losing 2% of the rewards. The network is at 98% hitrate, meaning 2% of the blocks do not get validated due to "lazy nodes".

When a block is not validated, there are no rewards for that round. This results in 2% of the yearly rewards being lost.

At $220 EGLD price, that's $9.5 million dollars lost in rewards per year. (2,169,025 EGLD network rewards in year 1)

With $50 per node per month in addition (likely less) the cost to 2x the entire network specs is $1.9 million dollars per year.

That's a $7.6 million dollars net benefit, assuming the EGLD price will also be the same in 1 year from now.

+$50 per node per month means +$600 per year. When you subtract that from the +$100k rewards per year, that still leaves +$100k rewards per year.

👌 Let's 2x our specs, team. Easy math.

📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.49.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.49.0

⏱ New features (ESDT!) activate at Epoch 3, Friday April 16, 18:30 UTC

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.50.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This latest release includes some optimizations and fixes for the Arwen WASM VM.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.50.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 MAINNET Upgrade V1.1.50.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the MAINNET!

This release is perhaps one of the most important since the mainnet launch and Smart Contract deployment: it brings ESDT tokens.

The Elrond Standard Digital Token model is perhaps the biggest innovation to blockchain tokens since their invention. ESDT tokens, NFTs & SFTs (semi-fungible) are embedded into the Elrond protocol, which has deep implication for speed, cost & performance.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-tokens-esdt-nft-sft-specs/

🛠 Version: V1.1.50.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our MAINNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-mainnet/


./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

⏱ New features activate at Epoch 272, on April 28 ~14:30 UTC

🏛 Validators Town Hall Meeting

Focus: Stake Pool owners, all validators welcome

TL;DR - pools that include queued validators earn fewer rewards.

Queued Validators do not participate in consensus, and thus do not earn rewards.

Examples included in the table below - we used 20% APR for base stake and 10% APR for top-up, for ease of calculation:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_J8GMC8DOrZj_Gf6KnvtjO-6fAtn5V3dk5oX50hTVE

Please consider:
• Consult your community about the implications
• Optimal solution: unstake queued Validators, so their stake becomes top-up for the active Validators -> more rewards
• Outcome: more rewards for delegators, fewer nodes in the queue

💡 Staking Providers considering securing a place in the queue, either do that by starting a new staking pool using your own funds, or inform your delegators about the implications of queueing with their funds.

Let's do a call on this topic ⬇

⏱ Wednesday April 21, 11:00 UTC

https://zoom.us/j/91365135664?pwd=TVlBb0hIYjJVOXdOSCs0TXY2NEFDdz09
Passcode: 217939

🏛 Validators Town Hall Meeting

Focus: Stake Pool owners, all validators welcome

TL;DR - pools that include queued validators earn fewer rewards.

Starts now:

https://zoom.us/j/91365135664?pwd=TVlBb0hIYjJVOXdOSCs0TXY2NEFDdz09
Passcode: 217939

🏛 Validators Town Hall Meeting - Summary & Recording

Hello Validators,

Here's the recording of the call today.

Summary:

Queued nodes do not produce rewards. To increase Delegator rewards, Staking Pool owners should consider to:

- unstake the queued nodes. Their stake will move as top-up on the remaining nodes, generating rewards for the delegators
- communicate with your delegators and let them know about the implications of queueing for a slots

Since our call and until now, several providers unstaked their queued nodes. Thank you team for acting in the best interest of the community.

For the others, please consider doing the same.

Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_J8GMC8DOrZj_Gf6KnvtjO-6fAtn5V3dk5oX50hTVE/edit#gid=0

📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.51.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release includes bugfixes. If successfully tested, mainnet upgrade follows soon after 🔥 - no mainnet action needed atm.

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.51.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 MAINNET Upgrade V1.1.51.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the MAINNET!

This release fixes a few bugs in v1.1.50.0. Please upgrade within the same timeline - before April 27.

🛠 Version: V1.1.51.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our MAINNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-mainnet/


./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

⏱ New features activate at Epoch 272, on April 28 ~14:30 UTC

📣 DEVNET Upgrade D1.1.51.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the DEVNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database. This upgrade brings the DEVNET in line with the mainnet. In short, tokens!

👌 Devs: no on-chain data loss because of this upgrade.

⏱ New features: ESDT + NFTs activate at epoch 444 ~17:40 UTC

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: D1.1.51.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our DEVNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-devnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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📣 TESTNET Upgrade T1.1.53.0

Hello Validators,

We are upgrading the TESTNET. We upgrade the nodes and keep the database.

This release includes a bugfix that will go live at Epoch 169

⏱ Bugfix activates Epoch 169 Friday April 30 ~14:50 UTC

⚠️ Do not upgrade your mainnet validators! You risk getting jailed and jeopardizing the mainnet.

🛠 Version: T1.1.53.0

👉 Let’s upgrade our TESTNET VALIDATORS. Please do:

cd ~/elrond-go-scripts-testnet
./script.sh github_pull
./script.sh upgrade
./script.sh start

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