Monte Rosa 1.1 Public Release
After a wildly successful 16 weeks, which has seen the Monte Rosa environment scale up to 150 nodes, all running stable, we’ve decided to release Monte Rosa 1.1! This new release comes off a 3-month effort focused on improving network stability and community insight. Here’s everything you need to know about Monte Rosa 1.1.
Grafana Dashboards
As our network continues to scale, it’s important that we increase the availability of tools and materials the community can use for troubleshooting, analysing and monitoring their nodes.
The Grafana dashboard comes as the first phase of this roll-out, providing users access to an array of new node metrics, from simple data consumption to detailed heartbeat analytics.
The Grafana dashboards have proved extremely useful in internal testing, especially in diagnosing memory issues. And paired with the soon-to-be-released new troubleshooting materials, we hope the community will be just as excited and active in node diagnostic/analysis.
How to access the Grafana dashboards?
Currently, the Grafana dashboards are only accessible to Dappnode users. In the coming weeks, we’ll push this to the Docker/Avado setups, but for now, it was implemented on Dappnode first due to the ease of integration provided by the native DMS (Dappnode Monitoring System) package.
You can view the quick setup guide for this on our docs.
New HOPR-Admin UI
With constant work on the backend to create a more stable and functional network, some of these connectivity features should be visible to the community. Which is why our team has implemented a graphical health indicator and revamped the API command outputs, giving more detailed and standardised responses.
But this is an area where we believe our community can really contribute, so with the recent migration of the admin out of our monorepo, the UI is easily accessible and ready for an upgrade.
From now on, features the community want to see added to the interface will be voted on and then handed out as bounties.
Network Registry
The Network Registry was introduced in the initial Monte Rosa release as a utility for the guarded and incremental scaling of the network. It is managed by a smart contract that only allows registered nodes to interact with the network.
We don’t believe that the HOPR network should be permissioned, but this is a necessary tool for the initial scaling of the network. But as the network has remained so stable, we’ve decided to increase the scaling rate.
Scaling Rate
We’re adding fifteen new users to the Network Registry every Monday, which will see us add hundreds of new nodes to the network in the coming months.
To join the waitlist, use this form. You can read about how the Network registry and waitlist work on our docs.
New rewards
With our new staking season coming out on January 26th, we are taking our first significant step in transitioning to the type of incentivisation scheme which can power the permissionless HOPR network.
So to incentivise node runners more, we’ve introduced a bi-weekly cycle of rewards for the best-performing nodes in the network.
Every two weeks, we will announce a metric or set of metrics we’re measuring, and at the end of the period, a budget of HOPR tokens will be divided between registered node addresses based on node performance.
Initially, this metric will be uptime measured through our network dashboard. You can find more information here.
Sebastian Bürgel,
HOPR Founder
Website: https://www.hoprnet.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoprnet
Telegram: https://t.me/hoprnet
Discord: https://discord.gg/dEAWC4G
Forum: https://forum.hoprnet.org
Staking: https://stake.hoprnet.org
Bounties: https://bounties.hoprnet.org
Playground: https://playground.hoprnet.org
