The Network Handbook

Note: This book is a work in progress. Some chapters are still missing, some are incomplete. You are reading a draft version.

Welcome to Chorus One’s Network Handbook. Chorus One is one of the leading node operators for decentralized networks. We operate validators for proof-of-stake blockchains and infrastructure for adjacent projects. We have many years of experience operating more than 70 networks, and through that we learned a lot about how we can operate such networks securely and reliably.

In this book we explain how we operate nodes and what we like to see from node software to enable us to do that reliably. The goal of this book is to help new and existing networks improve by sharing insights, best practices, and patterns that emerged from operating nodes at scale, which may not be obvious to the developers when launching a new network.

Aside from helping blockchain networks to improve, this book offers our delegators a glimpse into how we operate our nodes. Transparency is a core value at Chorus One, and we believe that by being transparent, we can help you make a more informed decision of which validator to delegate to.

Finally, we are always looking for talented engineers to join our team, and this book gives a good overview of the work we do on a daily basis. If the problems we solve sound interesting to you, check out our open positions!

Source code

This book is open source, licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The source files from which this book is generated are available on GitHub. The official version of this book is hosted at https://handbook.chorus.one.