FAQs

Anyone can run a Light Node and earn a % commission from members who delegate their Guardian NFTs to them.

Deploying a Light Node is simple if you use Easeflow or Railway as they take care of all the setup and hardware requirements. For more info, see Light Nodes.

A Sophon Full Node is a complete node that stores a full copy of the blockchain and can serve as either a sequencer or a validator.

Sophon Light Nodes offer a more cost-effective way to participate in the Sophon network as they require less data run and support the network, generally helping with data availability sampling.

• Minimum: 512 MB, 2 core.
• Recommended: 1 GB, 4 core.

An operator address is the onchain identity for a node. It is used to receive Guardian Membership delegations from your own accounts or other peers on the network.

If you use Easeflow or another Node-as-a Service (NaaS) platform, they should take care of all of this for you automatically.

If you are deploying your node via Railway/Docker, you’ll need to set the operator address. It can be any standard Ethereum-based address, but we recommend you use a different wallet to the one holding your Guardian Membership NFTs.

You can access the Node Dashboard via the Guardian App by connecting the wallet that holds the Guardian Membership NFT.

To retrieve all nodes’ information, use the following command:

You can retrieve your node information by filtering nodes using the operators filter. It takes comma-separated addresses. Here’s an example:

You can also define the page and per_page parameters. For example:

This will return 10 nodes per page, and the request will retrieve the 3rd page of results.

You can change your node’s URL (or IP) and/or destination address using the following:

Registered nodes cannot be deleted.

20% of the $SOPH supply is emitted over 156 weeks to node operators. Node rewards are distributed weekly throughout this period.

Ensure you maintain the minimum uptime requirements to be eligible.

Currently you need to maintain at least 60% uptime over the week to receive rewards. Note that this requirement may be updated over time.

The Dashboard in the Guardian App contains an overview of rewards and what is available to claim. Click Claim Rewards when you have an available balance to redeem to your wallet.

Rewards will only be viewable as of 15/01/25 and claimable around the time of TGE (which should occur End Q1 2025).

For the first 12 months, Guardian Membership NFTs are non-transferrable from the wallet they are redeemed to.

This means that your node is not currently reporting as active to the Sophon network. You may need to restart or reconfigure your node to bring it back online.

The signed message is a UNIX timestamp (in seconds format) signed with your operator wallet. Signatures expire after 15 minutes.

You can use Etherscan to sign messages.

The Sophon node sale was held on 30/04/24 and concluded shortly afterwards. You can find more details on the sale here. The unsold supply has been burnt and there are no plans for further node sales.