Decentralized Nodes

Plan

11/23: researching on leader rotation algorithm and design
11/22: we are not going to implement the allow list feature at the moment, based on the comments from RJ.
11/15: will have allowlist design and prerequisite ready this week;
11/08: working on allowlist design, to roll out decentralized nodes in various stages, starting with 1 shard, and reduced slots per validator nodes.
10/18: The mainnet upgrade to v4.3.0 was successful. Now harmony mainnet is running with 900 external slots and 51% of the external voting power.
- proposal to allowlist external leader: https://talk.harmony.one/t/hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329
- proposal to have 100% external nodes and voting power: https://talk.harmony.one/t/hip-19-100-external-voting-power-and-100-external-slots/4330
10/11: https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/releases/tag/v4.3.0
- As of 2PM UTC on Monday 11, 87% of the network has been upgraded to v4.3.0 with for individual shard % varying between 79% (S0) and 92% (S2), this should be enough to move ahead with the hard fork
10/06: https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/releases/tag/v4.3.0
- This release enables 900 external nodes and 51% of external voting power
- Will be enabled on mainnet Epoch 725 (Around Mon Oct 11 2021, 19:00 UTC)
09/28: https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/pull/3886