Yes, we spun our first node yesterday for the Polkadot (DOT) network and it is synchronising the database (50% progress at the time of publishing this note)… exciting times lie ahead!
Today Gatotech have joined the testnet of Aleph Zero as one of the first community validators to spin their nodes and sync the blockchain. We wish all fellow validators success in their operations and commit to the Aleph Zero Foundation to follow their community guidelines in the testing stages and beyond. cheers to that!! 😺
Kusama’s untold motto is “expect chaos“… and you better believe that its community embrace such a motto with passion!, however, the rollercoaster sometimes gets a bit to frenetic🙀😼😸… A new Polkadot binary (v0.9.18) was just released, and this binary included some minute changes to the experimental database called ParityDB which, in fact, broke its functionality…
Polkadot and Kusama networks’ demands have been growing dramatically during the past couple of months. During validation of para-chains activity the consensus committees run a healthy competition to collaboratively confirm that the information can be registered on the relay chain, and the validators are encouraged to confirm that very quick! To better serve the networks,…
It is easy to survive the storms when you have built a good shelter for yourself.. Our backup node in London was targeted by an apparent DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack earlier today. These kind of attacks can see massive amounts of requests being sent by multiple sources orchestrated by an entity, or syndicate…
Gatotech has just contracted out its second Bare Metal server, this time it was decided that this node should be located outside of the city of London and from a different hosting provider to meet the decentralisation goals of the networks we are proud to serve at the moment (Polkadot & Kusama) and to continue…