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Technical Questions

What are the minimum technical requirements for node operations?​

While we believe that accessibility plays a large role in decentralization, and have made design choices which we hope allows a broader range of participation within the network, it is still important to be aware of what will be required technically from those who choose to participate. In addition to a validator license and the minimum $FACT deposit, operators will be expected to be familiar with:

  • The Cardano network
  • Operating Linux servers

Additional information regarding technical requirements and updates to this section should be anticipated as R&D continues in preparation for the incentivized testnet.

Phase 1 is federated, what does that mean?​

Phase 1 is only the first step in realizing Orcfax's decentralization vision, while enabling the team to continue developing important components and gaining invaluable knowledge for future phases. These incremental development thresholds help to move Orcfax data up the “trustless” spectrum, even in this initial federated phase.

While our team’s goal for Orcfax is for it to become fully decentralized, phase 1 will use our federated node network so that we can continue critical R&D for our incentivized test net, and after that our decentralized model. Our team uses the term “federated” because Orcfax uses 5 geographically dispersed collector nodes; this model incorporates decentralized best practices such as the node’s geographical distribution in order to aid in regional consistency and the prevention of single sources of failure. Additionally, each of these federated nodes queries 3 different primary-source data providers at the same time, which gives Orcfax a decentralized data collection mechanism, and all of this is auditable in our world class standards compliant archival packages and Explorer app.

Our most recent development roadmap update has Orcfax running the Incentivized Testnet Dec23-May24 and then transitioning to independent validator nodes publishing to Mainnet in June 2024.

Where can I find the price data in the datum?​

In this example we will use an off-chain datum. We will use this datum , within which the price data can be found in the following portion:

                            {
                                "fields": [
                                    {
                                        "int": 2540017902
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "int": 1.8446744073709552e+19
                                    }
                                ],
                                "constructor": 3
                            },
                            {
                                "fields": [
                                    {
                                        "int": 39369801260558197
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "int": 1.8446744073709552e+19
                                    }
                                ],
                                "constructor": 3
                            }
                        ]

The first “fields” (we’ll call it f1) conveys ADA-USD, the second (f2) conveys USD-ADA. Within each of these, the first int (we'll call it int1) represents a price pair.

With this in mind, f1, int1 gives the ADA-USD price as an integer (2540017902), and the second (f1, int2) gives the number of decimals as longint (1.8446744073709552e+19).

The same is true for f2, int1 which gives the price pair for USD-ADA as an integer; with f2, int2 giving the number of decimals.

Using Python, you can find out the price by executing the following:

price = p1 * pow(10, c_longlong(p2).value)

With the following results:

Off-chain Datum