FAQs

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.

20% of supply are emitted over 36 month to Node operators. Node rewards are distributed weekly throughout this period. Ensure that you maintain the minimum uptime requirements to be eligible.

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

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 will generally 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.

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.

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.

You need to own a Guardian Membership NFT, this acts as a licence to support the network. Deploying a node can be straightforward if you are using Easeflow or Railway as they take care of all the setup and hardware requirements.

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

The Sophon node sale was held on 30th April 2024 and concluded shortly after. You can find more details on the sale here. The unsold supply has been burnt and there are no plans for further node sales.

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