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The Cere Network Blockchain powers the Cere Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC). In this page you can learn more about the Cere Blockchain, deploy a validator node, vote on governance proposals via Cere Explorer, monitor blockchain usage in the Cere Stats webpage and more.
🚀 Cere Validator Node Update v4.6.0 available now!
PoS Blockchain Node
Cere Explorer
Cere Stats
Staking Dashboard
Cere’s PoS Blockchain is an open source blockchain project built using Substrate, which follows the Nominated Proof of Stake mechanism to reach consensus. Using this approach, token holders can pool their resources together to nominate validators by staking validators of their choice to represent them, sharing a portion of the profits in return for their support if the validator nominated operates well.
Validators contribute to the overall security of the decentralized network by locking monetary assets in a staking pallet in an operation otherwise known as Staking. Token rewards are distributed to Validators (and their nominators) for good behavior, and token slashing is used to punish those who are not behaving in the best interest of the network.
The Nominated PoS mechanism used by the Cere Blockchain opens up the possibility for a more decentralized network, as even smaller token holders can actively participate in staking by building up a larger staking pool through the nomination process.
💡 Validators currently operating the Cere Network Blockchain can be seen on stats.cere.network/#/staking & https://explorer.cere.network/#/staking.
<aside> 🔥 Learn how to Stake on Cere Network!
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What is a node?
Nodes are basically servers and other infrastructure that run a blockchain.
Node Types
Cere Network is Substrate-based chain with 3 types of Nodes: Full Nodes, Archive Nodes, and Light Nodes.
Governance, Staking/Slashing, Treasury, and Council docs on docs.cere.network are written with the Cere community in mind.
You can find even more relevant resources on the Polkadot wiki (Cere and Polkadot are both Substrate-based!):
New Features
polkadot-v0.9.19NEW: In December 2022 Cere updated it’s Substrate based Blockchain framework from Polkadot v0.8.27 to v0.9.19. Node client consensus required for upgrade execution among all Validator Client nodes was reached in < 60 minutes!
All related tools have been updated as well: https://bridge.cere.network, https://stats.cere.network, https://explorer.cere.network.
We integrated the latest security fixes, performance fixes, and many new features, including upgradability to Smart Contracts, which are required for the next generation of the Cere DDC protocol.
NEW In the 2.33 release of Cere PoS Node, a feature was added for validators called “Bags.” To briefly recap what the Bags features is, consider the following variables:
“N”, the number of nominators who set their nomination intention, in a given network.
“A”, the number of nominators that can be included in an election process, and consequently become active and rewardable.
Currently, these two values are fixed. With the new bags-list, we can decouple these two values to allow many more nominators to set their intention (i.e. large value for “N”), and only pick a subset of them (“A”) for elections and rewards (based on stake). This means now that once “N” and “A” are different values, it might be important for some nominators to ensure they are taking their best possible position in the bags-list! Check out the bags-list page on the Polkadot wiki for more details.
cere-NEW In Q1 2023 Cere selected a specific format for Cere to use instead. If you’re curious to learn more about Substrate addresses, check out this article.
The prefix in Substrate code will be 54. For end user accounts, it will start from 6. Users will be able to see it in the Explorer and Polkadot.js extension after associating their account with the Cere Blockchain.
💡 See update announcement for more details.
Parity’s registry with Cere can be found here ⇒ https://github.com/paritytech/ss58-registry/blob/main/ss58-registry.json#L491
As part of ongoing improvements and alignment with the latest technologies, the current bridge is deprecated in favor of Hyperbridge. The transition to Hyperbridge was completed after the successful runtime upgrade to the latest Polkadot version.
The old bridge setup is phased out, and no further updates or improvements will be made to the existing system. The focus shifted to the new Hyperbridge integration, which provides enhanced functionality and better compatibility with Polkadot’s ecosystem.
The old Cere operated bridge is no longer accessible and Cere Network is fully integrated with Hyperbridge. Users can bridge tokens from Ethereum to Cere Mainnet and back using the Hyperbridge app.
However, bridging is not limited to Ethereum, while Hyperbridge opens up $CERE to the broader Polkadot ecosystem, our LayerZero integration allows you to move $CERE across EVM networks through the use of the Stargate bridge and Interport Finance .
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