Duffie's Measurement

This measurement is named after Professor Darrell Duffie of Stanford University, who asked that a validator's computing capacity be published with every block rather than claimed; the Validator Capacity Registry, and this page, are AEREDIUM's answer to that question.

Once a minute, every validator of the AEREDIUM test network (chain 2237) measures itself and publishes three figures: its capacity, which is how much of the chain's proposal path (checking the signatures on proposals and votes and hashing the block) it can carry, in normalised units where 100 capacity units is one reference core's worth of that work; its memory, in units where 100 memory units is the memory of the reference enclave; and its headroom, the part of a round the validator has to spare, as a percentage measured over the rounds of that minute. The record is placed in a block the validator proposes and bound by that block's hardware attestation, which every other validator checks before it keeps the record, and the chain keeps thirty days of them. This page reads the figures live from the chain's public door, https://rpc.aeredium.io, in your browser; they are never read from AEREDIUM's servers.