Thanks for becoming a Block Producer on the Open Rights Exchange (ORE) Blockchain!
- Join the ORE BP Telegram Channel
- Take a few minutes to learn about our ORE Protocol and Verifier service - in the next few months our block producers will be required to run verifiers in addition to their eosio node
- Download and install your eosio node
- Download the ORE BP config file and add your private key. REMEMBER TO USE BEST PRACTICES FOR BP SECURITY!
- Give us your public key & desired account name. We recommend using the same account name that you use on the EOS main net.
- Once you’ve done that we will create your account and select you as a Block Producer.
We expect all BPs to maintain a minimum level of CPU and RAM as needed by the ORE Blockchain. We’ve tested on both AWS and Google Cloud.
Currently minimum requirements are based on our Google Cloud deployment:
- 32 GB of RAM per machine
- 10 GB RAM must be pinned using config file
- 2 Ghz CPU running on 2 or more cores (or equivalent) 100 Mb/s networking
We recommend the following tools to help secure your BP:
- Standard linux security-related tools (ssh, private/unroutable networks, IPTables and/or firewalls, etc.)
- Patroneos including its components such as fail2ban, HAProxy, etc.
Guidance on techniques found useful by block producers is available from a diverse array of public articles, including:
Many other mainnet block producers maintain descriptions of their approaches to security