Node Guardians is a platform for builders, thinkers, and stakers. Our mission is to bolster innovative and promising crypto ecosystems, and contribute to the future of a decentralized internet. We do this through education and infrastructure.

We have created a series of coding challenges to engage and educate smart contract developers at all levels, providing them with the knowledge to build safer, more efficient, and advanced systems. 

In addition to practical skills, we also strive to impart theoretical knowledge about crypto history, technology and economics through building a library of articles that break down complex concepts of distributed systems & decentralized finance.

We provide infrastructure for non-custodial staking that places an emphasis on availability and security. This enables users to stake their assets, act as validators in the ecosystem, and earn rewards. 

At Node Guardians, we take on-chain governance seriously and strive to vote on proposals that promote more decentralized and robust protocols, aligning with the interests of our community. To maintain transparency, we will provide regular updates on our governance choices.

If you're interested in joining us on our journey, partnering up, or sharing your ideas, please don't hesitate to contact us at <a class="richtext rt-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:contact@nodeguardians.io">contact@nodeguardians.io</a>. We'd love to hear from you!

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About Us

Dev Hub

Character

Protocols

The character section is your own space in the Node Guardian universe. Here you can pick your avatar, inspect and equip your items, spend your gold, and visit your journal to see a breakdown of your exploits.

Each equipment set consists of 6 different items that you can collect and equip on your avatar.

Each item exists in 5 different rarities, common (white), uncommon (green), rare (blue), epic (purple) and legendary (orange). 

When you have 5 items of one rarity you can use the forge to upgrade your item to a higher rarity.

If you work hard and gain enough gold, you will be able to upgrade your items all the way to legendary!

Each chest costs 25 gold to buy and will give you 5 items. Each chest will guarantee you at least one rare item!

Here is a troubleshooting guide. For your submission to be successful, please ensure the following:

Questplay uses Github to download quests. Since Github enforces a tight download limit for unauthenticated requests, you will need to use a token in Questplay to authenticate your Github identity.

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After generating your token, copy and paste it over to Questplay's <code>.env</code> file.

If you wish to use your Metamask wallet to fund the testnet transactions in your hardhat scripts in Questplay, you will have to export out your wallet's private key onto Questplay's <code>.env</code> file.

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Check out our <a class="richtext rt-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://discord.gg/5MNvaMjeHW">Discord</a>! 

You will need some Goerli ETH to start and complete our CTF quests.

Completing the first quest in our <a class="richtext rt-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nodeguardians.io/dev-hub?s=devhub-campaigns&sc=tutorial">tutorial campaign</a> will reward you with a little Goerli ETH, enough to get you started!

Down the line, for every CTF quest you complete, you will rewarded with a little more Goerli ETH, enough to attempt a new quest.

In proof-of-stake chains, participants can contribute to the network’s security by acting as validators that sign blocks, or delegators that vote for validators. But to do either, they will need to first <b>stake</b> some cryptocurrency. This means they will have to lock up some of their funds with the network.

If blocks are found to be produced fraudulently by a validator, their locked funds, along with the funds of their delegators’, will be slashed. This disincentivizes validators in the network from acting maliciously, and delegators from supporting dishonest validators.

Stakers will not be able to move or trade their locked assets, and validators will incur infrastructural costs running nodes. In return, the network will grant them rewards over time.

There are several staking providers that borrow cryptocurrency from their users, and stake on their behalf. Users will then receive a portion of the generated rewards. The downside for users is that these staking providers have full control over the handling of funds and distribution of rewards. The safety of users’ funds becomes dependent on the trustworthiness of the staking provider.

Alternatively, non-custodial staking provides a trustless experience, where users retain full control of their own funds and full choice of which validator to delegate to. Staking non-custodially requires more technical expertise and attention. But in return, non-custodial stakers can enjoy greater security, and generally, stand to reap greater rewards.

Node Guardians is a non-custodial staking provider.

Node Guardians’ nodes are operated under strict security practices by our team of experienced SREs. As part of our continuous effort to provide the best uptime and security, we leverage on security and observability tools such as MPC Remote Signing, Remote Attestation Mechanism and Hardware Security Modules (HSM). To further ascertain strong uptime and availability, our validators are running entirely on the cloud, across multiple regions and multiple providers.

Staking rewards are not fixed, but are dependent on the number of active validators, the protocol’s governance model and inflation parameters. Generally, the bigger the staked proportion of the token supply, the lesser the rewards.

Our system fetches and displays the latest APRs for each protocol weekly. These rates are visible on our staking menu.

Each protocol adopts a different reward distribution system. The frequency of reward distribution is specific to the proof-of-stake protocol you are staking into. 

Please refer to each protocol’s updated governance for more information about rewards distribution.

The minimum stake is the minimum amount of funds a delegator must lock up to participate in the network.

Generally, protocols enforce a minimum stake so that staked amounts will be sizable enough to properly disincentivize validators and delegators from acting dishonestly.