What this page answers
- Is it running?
- 01 — the pulse. Blocks are still being
mined (proof of work), and the finality layer (proof of stake) is keeping up with them.
Two chips, two numbers; green means both engines are turning.
- Is it safe?
- 02 — the verdict. Finality needs ⅔ of all
bonded stake to sign. So whoever holds more than ⅓ — one operator, or a few together — could
stop it. The verdict names them and says what it would take to change that.
- Where should stake go?
- 03 — one suggestion, drawn from
the finalizers that are reliable and outside that group, and the full table below it. Rewards do
not depend on which finalizer you pick, so spreading stake costs you nothing.
The words
- Finalizer
- An operator that signs blocks into finality.
- Bond
- Stake you lock to a finalizer, from your own wallet — this page only
observes. It stays yours and can be unbonded.
- cTAZ
- The coin of this test network. Not money.
- Finality
- The point a block can no longer be undone. It needs ⅔ of
bonded stake to sign.
- The ⅓ line
- Hold more than a third — alone or together — and you can
withhold, which makes ⅔ unreachable.
- Coefficient
- How many operators it takes to reach that third.
Higher is safer.
- Height
- One finality decision. Standings use a
rolling 7-day window.
How the numbers are made
- Three standings
- The table shows one of three words per finalizer.
RELIABLE — its record clears the published bar (grade B− or better).
UNEVEN — observed, but below the bar: look closer, not "avoid".
NOT SEEN — nothing from it reached this node, so it is not graded at all.
The letter grade and score sit one click away, in the standing's popover.
- Two signals
- Under every standing sit two measurements.
Certificates — the signatures that actually finalized each decision, read from the
chain; weight 0.6. Votes seen — what reached this node in the short voting window
of each height; honest but partial, so weight 0.4. In the table the top strip is certificates, the
bottom is votes; when they disagree, that is the thing worth a look.
- The suggestion
- Picked at random on every load
from the reliable finalizers outside the group past the ⅓ line. Nobody pays for placement.
- Attempts
- Most decisions here need a second attempt (a "round")
before enough signatures land — with this few finalizers that is the normal path, not a fault.
We watch the trend, not the level.
- Stalls
- A stall is no decision at all for several times the normal
interval. Grades drift upward during one (nothing is seen), so the two are read together.
- Coverage
- How much of the window this node was actually watching. It
reads the chain itself, from the moment it started, forward only — the
scanned block range appears once the scan starts. Gaps are never counted as stalls, and the
scanner sees new bonds but not exits, so 24h flow is inflow, never net.
- Proposals
- Each round has a chosen proposer. We track who delivered
their slot, but it is not part of any standing yet — the sample is still young.
- Privacy
- Individual bonds are never listed. A wallet sees its own
positions and nobody else's; publishing this node's view would expose one delegator while the
rest stayed private.
What this page is not
Not a wallet — bonding happens in yours.
Not a ranking of operators by opinion — every finalizer, including the one running this node, is
measured by the same published rules. Not a complete record — one node sees
what reaches it, and says so wherever it matters.