ARC-101: Establishing standards for Aleo validators
❔️❓️Why Set Standards for Validators?❓️❔️
Validators are essential to decentralized networks, handling transactions, verifying blocks, and ensuring security. Without clear responsibilities, it’s difficult to assess their quality or encourage improvement. ARC-101 addresses this by defining transparent benchmarks to build a reliable, merit-based ecosystem focused on long-term commitment.
- Performance & Infrastructure: Ensure high uptime, run sufficient hardware, stay updated, and operate across Canary, Testnet, and Mainnet environments with rapid recovery plans.
- Security & Resilience: Implement security audits, key management, and failover strategies to safeguard the network.
- Tokenomics & Fairness: Enforce stake limits to prevent dominance while requiring minimum stakes to align validators with network health.
- Ecosystem Contributions: Support the ecosystem by contributing code, tools, dApps, educational content, and engaging in governance.
- Geographic & Strategic Diversity: Promote global validator distribution to enhance resilience against regional risks.
ARC-101 ensures validators uphold network security, fairness, and decentralization while driving sustainable growth.
❕️The Importance of Community Involvement in ARC Development❗️
ARC-101 was developed with active input from the Aleo community, leveraging feedback from network operations and test phases. This collaborative approach ensures governance decisions reflect collective consensus rather than top-down mandates.
ARC proposals are openly discussed, with contributions from developers, validators, and token holders. Once vetted, proposals are put to a vote, ensuring final decisions align with the community’s vision.
ARC-101 is a step toward a secure, fair, and sustainable Aleo ecosystem, shaped by the community. To participate and view proposals, visit vote.aleo.org.