Infrastructure ·

Findings: A fairly comprehensive guide for The Open network (TON)

Field notes from running a validator on The Open Network (TON).

The TON documentation sucks (at least somewhat outdated and disorganized) so I'm writing this one.

What you need to proceed:

  1. Actually know something about blockchain and CS fundamentals
  2. Have a Fullnode running and synced (via mytonctrl or something, can be found at https://docs.ton.org/participate/run-nodes/full-node, please note, this official fullnode installation guide is also outdated, and I would recommend you to watch the video instruction)
  3. ...Maybe I'll add something later

First we might need to know how TON's validation is designed:

image This the picture for mainnet, testnet follow the same structure but with shorter period for each section.