Quickstart guide

Welcome to GuildNet! This initiative is completely unrelated with NEAR Foundation, and works thanks to the support of the most active node operators from NEAR Protocol community.

In practice, it is an additional network called GuildNet, where the genesis block and the faucets are owned by the community members and not the Foundation.

Why a new network?

1. Stake Wars is oversubscribed, and is difficult to get a seat
2. We want to manage the faucet differently
3. Give an opportunity to validators who are kicked out for insufficient stake on BetaNet
4. See NEAR sharding in action!

We are using slightly-customized NEAR tooling, to allow them work on GuildNet:

• near-shell
• near-wallet
• nearcore
• nearup
• near-contract-helper
• near-api-js

If you plan to run your node (and applications) on GuildNet, keep an eye on these repos!

We also have servers running, to provide an easier experience:

• https://rpc.openshards.io/status to query the state of GuildNet
• https://wallet.openshards.io/ to generate and maintain your webwallet

Use quickstart.md to generate your GuildNet wallet and request for some tokens. Then, you can follow the node_setup.md guide to setup your keys and your node, and become a validator on GuildNet! Refer to the json files in the folder /ConfigFiles for the initial configuration of your node.