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Blockchain Validators

Every validators/node is publicly displayed on the explorer:

You can check on the explorer the nodes of every blockchain.

NOTE

We call nodes or validators the computers who participate in the blockchain to execute transactions. The more available nodes, the more decentralized the blockchain is.

Let's stick to the MultiversX. Go to the Nodes Section.

Nodes

Observe the nodes public information:

  • Public Key
  • Name
  • Shard
  • Node Software Version
  • Status
  • Rating
  • Nonce

We recall that the Nonce is the number of transaction that user transmited on the blockchain.

Rating​

Each individual validator has a Rating score, which expresses its overall reliability, performance and responsiveness. When validators join the network immediately after staking, they start with an initial score of 50 points.

Validators gain or lose rating points in a round depending on their role in that round (consensus proposer vs. consensus validator) and on their behavior within that role.

For the overall health of the network, if the rating of a validator drops below 10 points, it will be jailed. Being jailed means that the validator will be taken out of the shards, it will not participate in consensus, and thus it will not earn any rewards.

Rating affects the probability of a validator to be selected in the consensus group of a round. This is done by applying rating modifiers on the probability of selection for each validator.

You can read more on rating shard validators here.

Node details​

The explorer offers details on each node participant to the blockchain.

Node Details

Practice​