Introducing OAK Infra in partnership with ICON

Nina Wieczorek
Nov 7 · 2 min read

OAKnode announced a new product crafted for ICON block producers.

At OAK, we strive to lower the barriers of entry for anyone who wants to actively participate in decentralized networks.

We’ve already made it very easy for anyone to deploy a node of any protocol on any machine with just one click or one command line. In just over 3 months OAK enabled to launched over 600 different nodes supporting these networks.

Today we are taking it one step further and making it easy for anyone to deploy a block producing validator. Validators require regional and machine distributed stack to ensure the necessary uptime and security. Until now, this market has been dominated by the selected few who could invest time and money in setting up complex structures.

With today’s announcement we have reduced this complex process to just a few clicks. OAK now configures, deploys and monitors P-Rep Infra without any engineering overhead.

High availability distributed system for near zero-level downtime for ICON P-Reps

We are excited to partner up with ICON. With OAK, ICON P-Reps candidates can seamlessly onboard to a high-end, secure infrastructure built with block validators in mind. We did not stop there! Those validator nodes are continuously monitored by a pool of sentry nodes around them, providing further security from a possible range of attacks.

Trust via transparency

We enable P-Rep candidates to share validator’s uptime, block production rate or transaction throughput performance either through an interactive dashboard or an API.

Fixed infra costs. All block rewards belong to P-Reps.

We don’t charge P-Reps any % on the block rewards they earn. We want to support P-Rep in their success, not tax them on it. #FairInfra

We will announce more networks very soon. In the meantime, please contact us for more information on OAK/ICON.

Chief Noder @ OAKnode

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