Witness Statement - @drakernoise

🗳️ Declaration of Intent

I am committed to supporting the Blurt ecosystem by providing a robust, secure, and geographically independent seed and RPC node. My focus is on infrastructure stability and developer tools.

My Mission:

Maintain 99.9% uptime for block production
Provide a free, public, high-performance RPC endpoint (SSL secured)
Ensure data integrity with daily backups and health monitoring
Support the community with technical guides and open-source contributions
Offer comprehensive RPC API coverage including Bridge API (Nexus)

⚙️ Infrastructure Specs

Hosted on enterprise-grade hardware in Germany (Hetzner Data Center), optimized for low-latency and high-throughput.

Processor

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE

Memory

64GB DDR4 ECC

Connectivity

1 Gbit/s Dedicated

Storage

NVMe SSD RAID 1

🛡️ Software Stack

Operating System

Ubuntu Server (Hardened)

Blockchain Node

Dockerized blurtd (Latest Release)

ONLINE SYNCED

Social Layer Indexer

Nexus (Blurt-native, v0.1.0)

ONLINE SYNCED

Database

PostgreSQL 15 (Optimized)

HEALTHY

Cache Layer

Redis 7 (RPC Proxy caching)

ONLINE

RPC Proxy

Python-based intelligent routing (blurtd ↔ Nexus)

ONLINE

Protection & Security

UFW Firewall (Whitelisted Ports only)
Nginx Reverse Proxy with Rate Limiting (60 req/min)
Fail2Ban Intrusion Prevention
SSL/TLS encryption (Let's Encrypt)

📡 Public Endpoints

Developers are welcome to use my public RPC node. The endpoint intelligently routes requests between blockchain APIs (blurtd) and social layer APIs (Nexus Bridge).

RPC Endpoint (SSL): https://rpc.drakernoise.com ChainID: cd8d90f29b37a38e652a28b0c55aa75813f59b42bb75a5196cf15228518e9f45

Available APIs:

database_api condenser_api block_api account_history_api rc_api transaction_status_api bridge follow_api tags_api

Note: Browser access returns 403 Forbidden. Use POST requests with JSON-RPC 2.0 format.

🏗️ Architecture

The RPC endpoint uses an intelligent proxy that routes requests to the appropriate backend:

┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ │ RPC Proxy │────▶│ blurtd │ │ PostgreSQL │ │ (public) │ │ (blockchain)│ │ (DB) │ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └──────┬──────┘ │ │ │ │ └───────┬───────────┘ │ ▼ │ ┌─────────────┐ └──────────────────▶│ Nexus │ │ (Bridge API)│ └─────────────┘

blurtd: Full blockchain node with all RPC plugins active
Nexus: Social layer indexer providing Bridge API (posts, communities, feeds)
RPC Proxy: Routes API calls intelligently based on method namespace
PostgreSQL: Database backend for Nexus (social data indexing)
Redis: Caching layer for RPC Proxy (improves response times)