This site is the Velana developer testnet. Test VELA is free, has no monetary value, and you should never pay anyone for it. Official VELA is on Base. Test VELA and official VELA
The public testnet runs on 8 validators (Besu QBFT) on 4 servers. This page shows, block by block, which validators are taking their turn to propose, so a stopped validator shows up before the chain is at risk.
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Updated every 2 minutes from the public RPC. Status is inferred from blocks (proposers, QBFT rounds and commit seals), not from inside the servers. Test VELA has no monetary value.
Summary
Status
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Validators
#
Validator
Server
Last proposed
Blocks (last 200)
Seen
Servers
Server
Validators
Seen proposing
If this server goes down
QBFT needs a quorum of validators to agree on each block. With 8 validators the quorum is 6, so the chain keeps going with up to 2 validators down. node1 and node2 each run 3 validators, so losing either whole server stops new blocks until it is back. Spreading validators so no server holds more than 2 is on the roadmap.
Latest blocks
Block
Time (UK)
Proposer
Round
Commit seals
Txs
How to read this
OK
Every validator proposed a block in the last 24 blocks and the newest block is recent.
Degraded
One or more validators have missed their turns. Blocks still arrive while at least 6 of 8 are up.
Halted
No new block for over 2 minutes. When idle the chain makes an empty block every 30 seconds, so this means blocks have stopped.
Round
0 means the expected proposer made the block. A higher round means the expected proposer did not answer in time and another validator took over.
Commit seals
Signatures from validators that agreed to the block. At least 6 are needed.