Welcome

Our mission is to support the global Ethereum community

We have these guidelines and policies to build and support a safer community where everyone involved can feel as if they are respected, valued, and an important part of the community

More information can be found on the Node Guidelines article on Medium

General Items

A $14.95 monthly maintenance fee in ETH will be charged at the time of claiming Nodes-as-a-Service rewards

NaaS applications are processed immediately. ByoN applications will be processed within 2 business days

If we notify an applicant of a violation of any of the policies outlined, the applicant has 72 hours from the time of that notification to appropriately update the application. If the application is not updated within that 72 hours, the application will be rejected

Political

Political statements of any kind are not allowed

Political images of any kind are not allowed

Use of any word, name, image, character, or other for any current or past politician, leader, candidate, public figure is not allowed

Support by word or image to any political party, person, group, country are not allowed

Any words or images that demean, disparage, disrespect, humiliate, discredit, or otherwise of any political party, person, group, country are not allowed

Nudity, violence, self injury, suicide, or jeopardizing safety

Threats of violence to a person, group, race, gender, gender affiliation is not allowed

Any content that threatens the safety to a person, group, race, gender, gender affiliation is not allowed

Any sexually explicit language imagery is not allowed

Disrespect, intimidation, or attacks

Attacks or Disrespect to a person, group, race, gender, gender affiliation is not allowed

Defamation of any kind is not allowed

Inciting violence or intimidation to anyone of any kind by word or image

Logos, links, copyright, or trademarks

Using or posting Images, (original or altered) that identify another company, brand, image, service are not allowed

Using or posting Images that are under copyright by another owner are not allowed

Using or posting Images that are under any trademark or service mark by another owner are not allowed

Links in content are not allowed

Misleading, phishing, spam, impersonation, falsification, or deception

Node names or images that attempt to trick users into believing the content is something it is not, is not allowed

Images or node names that impersonate another person are not allowed

Deceptive node names or images that take advantage of the community are not allowed

Falsification of any kind in node names or images is not allowed

Discrediting or talking negatively about another node in any way is not allowed

Phishing or SPAM related content is not allowed

Cultural, racial bias, religious, profanity

Any message or text that supports a racial, religious, cultural, and/or social organization or political cause is not allowed

Any message or text that attacks a racial, religious, cultural, and/or social organization or political cause is not allowed

Any message or text that includes racial bias, or use of words against race of people will not be allowed

Any remarks, bias, or use of words against a religion will not be allowed

Any message or text against a racial, religious, cultural, and/or social organization or political cause is not allowed

Culturally or otherwise inappropriate content will be rejected

Any profanity content will be rejected

Violations to above policies:

If you attempt to do any of the above (or similar), you will be notified. You will have 2 calendar days to resolve the issue that you are notified of. If you do not resolve the issue within those 2 days, your node or application will be removed. If you attempt to repost content that is not allowed, we will remove your node or application.

Node response violations:

It is up to the node owner to make sure their services are running to be eligible for rewards. Please make sure the node’s json file and endpoints are always available, as outside services will depend on them. StrongBlock therefore reserves the right to remove a node if non-response conditions persist. StrongBlock will poll the active list sbEthereum.json file and RPC endpoint daily. If an issue with the node exists (i.e., the json file is not accessible or an RPC endpoint is not responding), we may send an email to the account on file in the sbEhtereum.json informing of the owner of the issue. If the issue is resolved within 24 hours, we will close the issue as resolved. If the issue is not resolved within 24 hours of notification, we will suspend the node, node rewards will pause, and a reinstatement fee may be required.

Please make sure you have a valid and active email address listed in your json file. That email address is the only way we will be able to reliably contact you if needed.