Chev Young - The Luminary Edition

Mitigating an Attack on the Proton Network

It was recently brought to my attention that a handful of block producer nodes on Proton Mainnet (including the one that I administer) were "producing empty blocks". An empty block is exactly what it sounds like – a block that contains no data. Apparently, someone was flooding the network with invalid

Issues After Updating to Latest Commit

I just had a rather frustrating experience. Upon updating to the latest commit, my node would not start. So I had to revert back to the previous build. See asciinema here: But then we noticed that our node was dropping in the leader board stats, so I went to investigate

Becoming a Near Validator

Our companies next project is becoming a NEAR validator, so I will be documenting that process. There is currently a "Staking Wars" challenge going on. Those whom win will become validators and may even receive the NEAR that they will be staking. Before I begin documenting the process, I would

Claiming Rewards

Proton is so mysterious and scary at times. The first time that I tried to claim validator rewards, I thought that I accidentally sent them the wrong account. Thus I figured that a post about how to do this correctly would be useful. Voter RewardsTo claim voter rewards, unlock your

Deploy on the Main Network

In this series of the Luminary Edition, I will document the process of configuring your main network block producer node. Note that in order to launch a node on the main network, you must successfully run on the test network for at least two weeks. If you've been approved then

Becoming a Proton Block Producer

In this article I will detail the process of configuring a node on the proton test network. Although there are several guilds on the internet available, I did not find one that was very comprehensive, and spent much time Googling my way through issues. So here I will document the