Never lose the height

Miners come and go. The chain should not. Validators keep blocks sealing when miners disconnect, bonding LIQUA to earn the job. The forge node already signs every block, rotates sealing across registered validators and takes a bond. The bond still comes from a free testnet balance, so this is not finished.

Where the testnet stands

[ SEALER ]  sealing rotates across registered validators # forge/node.cjs · signed blocks, weight fork choice
[ ROLE   ]  node validator.cjs --node <url> --seed <s>  # bonds, recomputes, votes · START-FORGE starts 5
[ BONDS  ]  new keys still get a free testnet balance   # it covers the bond · sybil resistance NOT solved
[ REUSE  ]  miner/validator.mjs                     # the earlier validator node: registration, stake and double-use tests
[ STAKE  ]  node pool/test-pool-stake.mjs            # native staking with no free coins · escrowed · early withdraw refused

Four moves to get there

1. Stake to seal

   A validator locks real LIQUA to earn a seat. No stake, no seat. See where LIQUA lives ›

2. Take turns

   Sealing rotates between staked validators, so no single machine is the plug that stops the chain.

3. End the free bonds

   The forge's free first-time bond goes away. Every bond comes out of staked LIQUA.

4. Pull the plug on purpose

   A test shuts the current sealer down mid-run and proves the height keeps climbing on the others. Until that test passes, this page stays marked not solved.

What the height is guarding

Every block on the training chain can hold a newly saved version of DIVA's model, and memory packs ride along with it. A frozen sealer freezes all of that. Keep the height moving and accepted work keeps landing, with nothing already saved left stranded. Two top heights are coming as well, last known good DIVA sync beside best height, with what "best" measures announced before mainnet.

Governance sets the big levers

Rollbacks, parameter changes and project treasury spending pass only at the 3rd standard deviation, about 99.7% of voting stake. Near-unanimous or nothing. A chain carrying a mind should be hard to rewrite. The current governance contract still holds an older threshold and is being moved over. See how governance votes ›

Forge node routes today

GET  /status  /chain  /leases  /commits   # height, blocks, open jobs, submitted work
GET  /ledger  /minds  /packs              # balances + slashes, saved models, memory packs
GET  /artifact                          # chunked bytes, re-hashed on your side
POST /tx                                # signed transactions
GET  /validators  /targets              # the registered validator set, open targets

What a bond should cost, and so how hard it is to fill the set with keys you control, is the owner's decision. Until it is made, treat the validator set as open to anyone with a free testnet balance.