Nexus Prover Node

You earn NEX Points by contributing compute and interacting with the Nexus ecosystem.

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Can I use multiple devices?

• Yes, you can connect as many devices as you want, including desktops, laptops, mobile phones, and servers
• You can link and manage all your devices from a single Nexus account.
• You can also prove computations in multiple browser tabs simultaneously.

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--> Create account

• Create an account at https://app.nexus.xyz.

• Follow the account linking instructions.

• Your contributions will earn NEX Points.

• Track your progress on the leaderboard.

• Manage all your nodes in one place.

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--> Contribute via Web browser

Login into the dashboard and press the button to start your node

https://app.nexus.xyz/

• You can run prover nodes on multiple browser tabs, desktops, laptops, mobile phones.
• Link and manage all your devices from a single Nexus account.
• More computations = More NEX points

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--> Contribute via Chromium (Browser on VPS)

You can install a Chromium browser on your Linux VPS and run a web-broswer based node on it too. Guide to install Chromium on VPS

• Open as many tabs as you want and run provers on all of them, LOL.
• I'm not sure about the performance but hey i'm just testing it.
• You'd better to have at least 1 CLI node near it too.

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--> Contribute via CLI

You might need a free +8GB RAM, you'd better to test it yourself since the testnet is under cunstructions

1. Install Dependecies

sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install screen curl libssl-dev pkg-config build-essential git-all protobuf-compiler -y
sudo apt update

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

source $HOME/.cargo/env

rustup target add riscv32i-unknown-none-elf

2. Run Prover

1- Start a screen to keep it running in the background

screen -S nexus

2- Install and run prover

curl https://cli.nexus.xyz/ | sh

3. Link Node

1- After installation command completes, it asks you if you want to link your node press 2

2- Enter you node-id

• To find your node-id, go to https://app.nexus.xyz/nodes
• Click Add Node, click Add CLI Node and copy your node-id and paste in terminal

4. Manage your Node screen:

• To minimze the screen: CTRL+A+D

• To return to screen: screen -r nexus

• To kill screen: screen -XS nexus quit

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