Why

Ultron delegators have a hard time finding the right validators to delegator their ULX to. The community started some efforts to create more transparency and collect more information about validators but nothing was nice and easy to use. There also were issues keeping the data up-to-date because it was maintained in a centralized manner.

How

By creating a smart contract that interacts with the SFC smart contract. It allows each Ultron validators to add and update information (a URL to a JSON file) about themselves, so delegators have more insights who they are, without the involvement of a third party. A small backend application continously fetches all the validator data (to take load off the clients) and a frontend application displays it to users and delegators in a nice way.

What

The smart contract is already deployed and can be found on the Ultron MainNet at the following address:

0x8346c42d1023BAfA955fF3623c96d54982AB8b0F

ULXScan: https://ulxscan.com/address/0x8346c42d1023BAfA955fF3623c96d54982AB8b0F

The smart contract is already deployed and can be found on the Ultron TestNet at the following address:

0x33F0C573e9415497D30FB7C1bd4632b2F27dC689

ULX_TestNet_Scan: https://explorer.ultron-dev.io/address/0x33F0C573e9415497D30FB7C1bd4632b2F27dC689

How it looks like

Most of the information that is shown is fetched automatically, but there are a few parameters than can be set by validators.

Update your validator info

Config File

Create a config file in JSON format that contains the following parameters (you can also leave parameters empty):

{
  "name": "VALIDATOR_NAME", /* Name of the validator */
  "logoUrl": "LOGO_URL", /* Validator logo (PNG|JPEG|SVG) - 100px x 100px is enough */
  "website": "WEBSITE_URL", /* Website icon on the right */
  "contact": "CONTACT_URL" /* Contact icon on the right */
}

/* It could look something like this 👇 */

{
  "name": "Ultron Foundation",
  "logoUrl": "https://ulxscan.com/img/ultron-logo.png",
  "website": "https://ultron.foundation",
  "contact": "https://www.instagram.com/ultron.foundation"
}

Then host it somewhere so it is publicly accessible!

Update your info in the smart contract

1. Create a wallets.txt file inside the smart-contract/ directory.
2. Put the private key of the validator into the wallets.txt file and save the file.
3. To enter the working directory, open the terminal in the root project directory and execute the following command.:

cd smart-contract

4. To set up all required packages, execute the following command:

yarn install

5. To update validator information within the StakerInfo smart contract on the mainnet, execute the following steps:

yarn hardhat update-info --network ultron

Support

If you have any issues updating your validator info do not hesitate to join our validator group.