FirstBlock Ventures
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☝️ Reminder: Community Validators take over block finalization on December 16th as we progress towards further decentralization! Switch your nomination from the Aleph Zero Foundation to a Community Validator to keep getting rewards—if you haven't already! 🫡





📺 Run relayers, get rewards. Boosted AZERO economy inbound! There are a few key things incoming: 🔘 Network decentralization through community validators taking over the block finalization committee–already on Testnet!; 🔘 A new role in the system: the relayer and relayer nominator that get all the fees for shielding and unshielding. This is your new way to participate and get rewards! 🔘Full decentralization ahead: switch to community validators and get higher rewards! 👇



⚙️ Staking with community validators helps secure the Aleph Zero network—and gets you more AZERO rewards. Here’s why! Nodes run by the community have been enabled in December 2022, yet some users still nominate the AZF validators. Here's why you might reconsider nominating one of the community validators: 👉 You get a higher commission when staking with community validators; 👉 You help decentralize the network when staking with community validators; 👉 There is no automatic slashing, so you don’t risk losing your coins when staking with community validators; staking with the Foundation or the community is equally secure; 👉 All nodes, including the Foundation, are subject to Automatic Suspension Mechanism (ASM) — if a validator underperforms, it will be briefly suspended, but not slashed; 👉 When nominating a validator, you don’t send your coins anywhere; they remain in your wallet/account. 📖 Read more about the details of staking with community validators in the latest blog article: alephzero.org/blog/staking-w…











