Artela
How to run your Artela via SATEA
Step 1: Purchase Artela nodes
Login app.satea.io and select Artela
Select the number of nodes and node duration
After confirming that there are no errors, please follow the instructions to complete the payment.
Step 2: Submit node customization information
After the payment is done, you can customize the node name, profile and avatar, please click open ticket in Satea Official Discord: https://discord.com/invite/satea for selecting “Open Ticket” to open the ticket and submit it.
Submit Contents:
Satea Registration Email
Node Name
Node Profile
Node Avatar
If you have purchased more than one Artela node for the same account, please send all the information required for the node.
Please send your customize node information within 24 hours of your node purchase by opening a ticket in Satea Discord, and the Satea team will reply in Discord to confirm this. If you do not send your customize node information within 24 hours, the name, profile and bio of the node you purchased will be randomized by Satea.
Notes on filling in node information:
As the node name, profile and bio can be linked to the node runner's social media, website, etc., which in turn reflects the node runner's experience and community contributions, try to keep it consistent with your common social media. Alternatively, if you have experience running a verifier node on another project, you can use your previous verifier node name and profile for Artela's node verifier.
The system will automatically perform node configuration and synchronization, which is expected to be completed within 24 hours, with no additional operations required during this period.
Once configuration is complete, the platform will disclose detailed node information to fill out the node tutorial. Node information includes:
Node Name
Running Infrastructure
Validator Address
Delegator Address
Faucet Address
Step 3: Complete the Artela Verifier Node Registration Form
Node Verifiers will also need to fill out the registration form at https://atkty6pceir.typeform.com/to/o4359Rsd?typeform-source=artela.network in order to be selected by the Artela Foundation as a selected delegate recipient to receive the Foundation's exclusive Verifier Incentive. The form should be submitted to the Artela Foundation.
Upon successful submission, Artela may approve the application and contact you via email if your combined contributions fulfill the criteria.
In addition, in the registration form, you can also add specific contributions during the run of the node verifier and synchronize these contributions for submission on https://github.com/artela-network/contribute-to-artela.
Below is a reference tutorial for filling out the form:
Part I：Fill in the basic information:
Validator's Name
Introduction of your validator
Company website & social media
How can we contact you if you are selected?
Fill in the above content truthfully, the validator profile can be filled in with your main business, such as eco-developer, specialized node operator, etc. Validator name should be the same as social media/official website name as much as possible to increase credibility.
Part II：Validator Details:
Please describe your uniqueness and highlight as an Artela validator. This question is required.
How long have you been running nodes?
On how many chains are you running the validator?
Do you have a proven track record?
This part is mainly about showing the strength of the node operator, including but not limited to financial strength, hardware strength, past operation experience, etc. The node operator can submit records of RPCs in other public chains.
Part III：Assets and monitoring:
Total staked asset amount & Total delegator amount?
Based on the “Number of chains running verifications” submitted earlier, count the amount of assets pledged on the total number of verifier nodes and the total number of principals participating in the pledge.
Do you have a monitoring system in place?
“Yes”, and fill in the node server running monitoring software, such as Zabbix, Prometheus and so on.
Part IV: Backup and Key Management:
How do you organize backup solutions?
Fill in the backup strategy for the node servers, such as generating daily snapshots and copying them locally to other servers.
How do you organize key management?
Fill in how the key is held, e.g. encryption is kept locally, etc.
Part V: Software Updates and Community Engagement:
Do you upgrade your software on time without missing too many blocks? (“Yes”)
Are you a known entity within the community?
Do you run different types of nodes, relayers, create tools, block explorers and other smart contract contributions for the blockchain?
Do you engage in the community, create and distribute educational content?
This section is fill in with your contributions to the Artela community. If you are active in Artela Discord / Github and have generated contributions, you can submit IDs, screenshots, etc. If you are a good developer, you can try to contribute to Github; if not, you can try to stay active on Discord and get community medals.
Part VI: Infrastructure and Security:
Do you run infrastructure in a country that contributes to a higher geographical decentralization of the set?
Fill in the country in accordance with the IP, and try to fill in web3 friendly countries, such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.
Do you run their infrastructure on local hardware or rely on cloud providers?
Which provider?
Fill in the form accordingly, if it is a cloud service, you need to fill in the cloud service provider, and it is recommended to use Hetzner, AWS, and other well-known high-quality providers for cloud services.
Do you engage actively in governance discussions and vote on every proposal?
Yes! If you have any prior history of governance involvement in this or other projects, please attach it.
What country is your legal entity incorporated in?
It is recommended that you fill in the country of registration if you are a business. Individual users should fill in their nationality.
Do you have a website where you advertise operations as they see fit as well as a communication channel? Can you verify yourselves?
Can you provide your blog, Twitter, and other media.
Can you ensure running your infrastructure during an extended bear market?
Yes ! If so, list your nodes that ran during the 22-23 year bear market.
How much commission do you take and how fast can you increase it? Did you ever change commission?
The commission rate for node pledge earnings is not recommended in Artela's official documentation and can be set freely. It is recommended not to change the commission percentage in order to improve stability.
Above, we have completed the deployment and registration of Artela nodes.
Step 4: Viewing Your Verifier Node
You can find your verifier node in the Inactive node in the Artela Test Web Browser at https://explorer.nodestake.org/artela-testnet/staking.
Search within the page for the node name you set, e.g. Moreno, to find the node.
Click on the node to view the node details.
*Other suggestions to increase community contribution
1. Verifier Node Incentives Explained
For all verifiers, Artela Foundation will follow the guidelines of verifier points.
The Artela Foundation will monitor the performance and specific contributions of each verifier according to the Verifier Points Guidelines.
In each phase, Artela will select 35 to 40 Verifier nodes as Delegated Acceptors, and Artela will award 2,000 ART tokens for each Testnet phase in which each selected Verifier participates. The list of delegated recipients will be updated every quarter and will be allocated based on the ranking of each selected Verifier's contribution points, so the higher the points, the better the chances of being a selected Verifier.
Even if they are not selected but have contributed to Artela, Verifiers will still be able to indicate their contribution by creating an issue in the contribute-to-artela repo.In its official blog, Artela states that all contributions will be valued and will continue to be tracked for future selection of Verifiers and various rewards. And informs the verifiers “Please remember to keep the wallet used for the Artela verifier node. artela will track contributions to the testnet through this address!”
It is therefore foreseeable that verifier nodes that are not selected may or will also be incentivized after achieving higher verifier contribution points. So be sure to mention your contributions to the contribute-to-artela repo in a timely manner.
contribute-to-artela repo, contribution submission URL: https://github.com/artela-network/contribute-to-artela
Detailed guidelines for verifier contribution points
Points tasks are divided into 3 parts: General Tasks, Public Welfare Contributions and Community Contributions.
1.General Tasks
There are 5 tasks in this section, the basic ones are “Set up your validator” and “Maintain high uptime”, complete the validator node setup and maintain high uptime. For users who have completed the one-click node hosting with Satea, this part will be done by Satea on their behalf, and Satea backend operation will guarantee the nodes are running stably.
‘Vote on Governance Proposal’ and ‘Tasks participation’ require users to enter code in the node client, which is difficult to operate. Satea will provide detailed tutorials for Artela when there are governance votes or other tasks. As for “Sign the genesis block”, no specific instruction has been given by the official, Satea will update it after Artela official gives specific explanation.
2.Contribute to the public
This section assesses the verifier's technical contributions to Artela, including building tools and DAPPs for the Artela ecosystem, contributing to the codebase, finding security bugs, etc. It is more suitable for developers in the Artela ecosystem, and is more difficult for general users to participate.
3.Community contributions
This part of the contribution is more realizable.
Educational contents: Write articles contributing to Artela, including technical blogs, project highlights, etc.
Events: Organize events related to Artela, such as hosting an AMA as a KOL, inviting Artela to co-speak, or introducing Artela in a positive light.
Community moderation: Participate in community management in Discord, organize community events, etc.
Validator moderation: Organize the Validator program and other activities to help manage validators.
Dev community moderation: organizing hackathons and other events to educate and incubate developers.
Of the above, Educational contents is the easiest to achieve, and the threshold for writing popular science articles or project introduction articles is relatively low. If you are a KOL or other project side, you can consider co-organizing events with Artela to achieve events tasks. Additionally, staying active in Discord and becoming a MOD is a great way to increase community contributions.
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