Subnet Management - General Discussion

Hello Wenzel!

Are there any nodes that are currently receiving remuneration rewards that will no longer be receiving remuneration rewards within the next several months?

Yes indeed. There will be a significant decrease in rewards being minted over the next few months. All of this will be happening under the terms of this same thread, but this is a high-level breakdown for what you’ll see happening as far as rewards go and proposals:

  • The NPs who were operating the four DCs mentioned above will receive their last rewards in December (all rewards go out for the previous month right now). DFINITY will submit a proposal on their behalf to stop their rewards.
  • We did sell the AT1 servers to new NPs who are moving them out of the US, so those servers will be re-onboarded in another country for better decentralaztion, and those NPs will begin receiving rewards there, under the post-48-month remuneration plan, which will be lower rewards than what AT1 currently gets. (The servers in other 3 DCs are being repurposed for internal usage needs that already exist so they will not generate rewards.)
  • All of the rest of the Gen-1 NPs current 48-month remuneration plans will end over the next few months (staggered dates, according to when their DCs were ready to be onboarded prior to Genesis). This includes DFINITY’s Gen-1 servers.
  • Those who had more than 42 nodes (including us) are selling their excess to new NPs who will also re-onboard those nodes under the post-48-months plan, so there will be a forum post for each one explaining the transfer and identifying the new owner, and the new NPs will have proposals which should link to those forum posts (including those who bought our servers).
  • All Gen-1 NPs will also need to make a forum proposal after they get their final “current plan” rewards to continue running nodes under the post-48-remuneration plan (which is 33% lower than current rewards), and this proposal from each one must be done after their final “current plan” payout.
  • I think (@SvenF can correct me if I’m wrong) that in the 2nd half of February, DFINITY will submit a proposal to “clean up” the rewards table and remove completely the original Gen-1 rewards amounts. This would ensure that if any NP has not submitted their proposal to reduce, they would wind up with zero rewards.

All of the above should result in a roughly 33% reduction in rewards being minted to Gen-1 NPs, over the next four months.

Regarding the rest of your proposals, there isn’t room to do that with existing servers, as DIFNITY needs to repurpose the rest of these servers, and repupose them in the United States where they already are (and where the IC does not need more nodes). We already have people with travel plans in place to move these servers next week. I hope you understand that it does not make financial sense for us to sell servers that we have and buy new, when we can simply repurpose what we already have.

However, you state a lot of good points which I believe should be explored further so that positions and opportunities can be set up when the IC needs more nodes to be onboarded. Please continue to lead public conversations around such possibilities! The IC will need more nodes at some point in the future, and it would be very good if there are opportunities for NPs to onboard at lower expense already set in place and prepared when that day comes. That would be a great boost for decentralization and the future of the IC, in addition to helping to solve some of the funding needs that you have stated so clearly.

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