The Boundless Prover Node is a high-performance computational proving system that participates in the Boundless decentralized proving market.
- CPU: 16 threads, single core boost >3GHz
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 100GB NVME/SSD
- GPU:
- Minimum: 1x GPU with 8GB vRAM
- Recommended: 10x GPUs with 8GB+ vRAM
- Best models: RTX 4090, RTX 5090, NVIDIA L4
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 LTS
- Not supported: Ubuntu 24.04
- Request Submission: Developers submit tasks as "orders" with ETH/ERC-20 rewards
- Staking: Provers deposit USDC stake
- Bidding: Provers submit competitive bids (mcycle_price)
- Order Locking: Winners lock orders with staked USDC
- Proof Generation: GPU-accelerated proof computation
- Rewards:
- Valid proofs → rewards
- Invalid/late proofs → slashing
Once your broker is running, before the gpu-based prover gets into work, broker must compete with other provers to lock-in the orders. Here is how to optimize broker to lock-in faster than other provers:
Decreasing the mcycle_price would tune your Broker to bid at lower prices for proofs.
Once an order detected, the broker runs a preflight execution to estimate how many cycles the request needs. As you see in the image, a prover proved orders with millions or thousands of cycles.
mcycle_price is actually price of a prover for proving each 1 million cycles. Final price = mcycle_price x cycles
The less you set mcycle_price, the higher chance you outpace other provers.
To get idea of what mcycle_price are other provers using, find an order in explorer with your prefered network, go to details page of the order and look for ETH per Megacycle
Increasing lockin_priority_gas to consume more gas to outrun other bidders.