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Nodes and Clients

A guide to understanding, building, and maintaining nodes on the Telos Blockchain Network

Telos uses Antelope platform-specific components and libraries (nodeos, cleos, keosd, EOSIO.CDT, and EOSJS) to operate blockchain nodes, collect blockchain data, interact with nodes, and build smart contracts.

All Telos nodes must implement the client service daemon protocol called nodeos. It is a product of Antelope.io and is responsible for processing smart contracts, validating transactions, producing blocks, and confirming blocks on the Telos blockchain.

Node Types​

If you are interested in running a Telos node or a Dapp developer, you should consider running a Telos node and understand the differences between validators and block producers.

  1. Producing Nodes: Configured for block production. Each active producing node top-21(DPOS) validates all blocks and transactions it receives

  2. Non-producing Nodes: These nodes verify each block and maintain copies of the blockchain. Non-producing nodes mainly operate in standby mode. At a high level, they do much more than checking and verifying the blockchain in Core consensus, including:

    • Proxy, gateway to Blockchain data;
    • Relaying API calls (API endpoints);
    • Securing the network and boost RPC call performance.