Dear community
As all of you know, decentralization is essential for Astar, it is one of our core values.
Decentralization is a very vast topic where nothing is just black or white, but it is a goal we have to aim collectively.
This proposal covers an essential part of decentralization: peers.
To make the network the most resilient and efficient, we need a lot of peers, meaning we need new nodes across the world, we need community nodes!
View peers map on Astar telemetry
I would like to submit this proposal as a 1st experiment to incentivize community members who are eager to run a node in regions where we have no Astar nodes:
- South America
- Africa
- West Asia
- South East Asia
- Australia
The whole program would be divided in 3 milestones, this proposal covers the 1st milestone
- Milestone 1: incentivize 2 Astar node runners of each region (10 people total) for running a node in their region
- Milestone 2: extend the program to 10 more people
- Milestone 3: incentivize people who have kept their node running each year
Amount requested for this proposal (milestone 1): 5000 ASTR ($200) / person = 50000 ASTR total ($2000)
Conditions:
- The program is open to anyone living in targeted regions (including non technical people), candidates will be selected by me or anyone who want to help me for this program
- The node must be an archive node
- The node must have ran for 1 month without big interruption (no need for 100% uptime but at least 80% is asked)
- The node must be connected to Telemetry
- The node has to be ran on a Raspberry Pi 4 (other small ARM machines accepted), at least 4Gb RAM is recommended.
Resources
- Astar documentation: run an archive node
- Raspberry preparing for a node - a bit outdated but helpful
- Astar node for Raspberry Pi
- I will provide an online workshop with selected candidates who want it as part of Astar Decentracademy
Questions
Why this amount?
$200 is close to the price for a Raspberry Pi full kit (including power supply, SD card, case, fan and heat sinks). It doesn’t cover the hard drive price considering people usually have hard drives home but we can consider this if there is a consensus from the community.
Why a Raspberry Pi?
Because it is the most sustainable and economic way to run an archive node: it is very silent to stay at home, it consumes a very tiny amount of power and its size is very small. Of course, it can be any kind of small ARM based computer, as long as it has a low consumption (we love green).
Disclaimer
All elements of the proposal can be adapted before submit it to vote, please comment with any suggestion of improvement.
If you are interested to apply in this program, please answer to this post.
Let’s decentralize Astar together!
bLd
DevOps engineer at Astar Network
