igneum/docs/community/discord/ladder.md

Discord: the ladder's rung announcements (message shapes, not posted)

7 October 2026, miner-ui-5 (mission item 6, docs/analysis/mission/mission.md 2.6). The shapes the bot would post for each rung of the miner's ladder, so the words in Discord match the app and the site rung for rung. Nothing here is posted by this lane; the Discord lane wires them into tools/community/discord-hooks.mjs behind its guard rails (docs/community/discord-hooks.md: the forbidden-string guard, the limits, idempotency keys, never a mention). Every number is a chain fact from the public API (/api/live, /api/stats), which is the observer's copy of the node's getFinalityWeights and getFinalityCheckpoints; a post names nothing the chain does not say.

The rules every rung post obeys

Rule	How
The miner's object, never the project's	a post carries the key id, the block link, the rank and the day; never the network hashrate, the block count or a milestone of the project
A chain fact only	the trigger is a field of getFinalityWeights (keys[].blocks, keys[].voter, keys[].participation, voters) or getFinalityCheckpoints (latestLockedIndex), read through /api/live finality.weights
Opt-in for anything beyond the key id	the card model and the "(you)" link to the address page appear only when the miner switched "Make my page public" on in the app (settings.profile_public); without it the post is the key id and the block link
Short key id	the first 8 hex of the vote key hash, the same id the app, /live and the explorer show; never a payout address, never a machine name
One post per key per rung	idempotency key rung:<rung>:<keyid>; a rung is posted once for a key, ever (a key that drops and climbs back is not posted again)
Copy law	no em dashes, no two-beat antithesis, no aphorisms; the numbers in the line, nothing decorative
Volume	#first-blocks takes rungs 0 and 1 (one line each); #numbers takes the daily ladder summary; rungs 2 to 5 and P are never posted singly (one a minute at scale), they are counted in the summary

Channel: #first-blocks

Rung 0, first block (trigger: a key's first blue block in the window; keys[].blocks goes 0 to 1 in finality.weights, and the block's miner is that key in /api/live blocks[])

First block: key 6ad0e117
Block 1,284,117 · igneum.network/block/9f3a…c21e
RTX 4070 (the miner chose to show the card)

Without the opt-in the third line is absent. Embed: ember accent, title "First block", one field "Key" = 6ad0e117, one field "Block" = the explorer link; footer the UK time with UTC in brackets (the hooks script's footer rule).

Rung 1, the vote (trigger: keys[].voter goes false to true, that is blocks reaches params.dust)

Your key has a vote: 6ad0e117
100 blocks in the window (the line is 100) · the key now signs every checkpoint

On the devnet the line reads 5 blocks in the window (the line is 5): the number is params.dust, never a constant.

Channel: #numbers, the daily ladder summary (09:00 UK, beside the daily digest)

The ladder, yesterday
First blocks: 14 keys found their first block
Votes: 9 keys crossed the dust line (now 1,213 voters)
Signatures: 1,201 keys signed a locked checkpoint (latest lock 184,220)
Full window: 406 keys at 30 of 30 days
Rank 1 by weight: 6e80f3ef with 2,592 blocks in the window
Signing streak, longest: 41 days unbroken (presence 100%)
Shards: 388 paid to 57 keys

Fields and sources, one per line:

Line	Field
First blocks	keys whose blocks went from 0 to at least 1 between the two daily reads of finality.weights.keys[]
Votes	keys whose voter went false to true; voters for the total
Signatures	keys with participation above 0 at the day's last read; latest_locked_index for the lock
Full window	keys whose blocks span the whole params.weightWindow (owed from the node: keys[].daysMined; until then the line is left out, never estimated)
Rank 1	keys[] sorted by blocks, the top row
Signing streak	owed from the node (keys[].streakDays); until then the line is left out
Shards	/api/live proving.shards_paid_10m summed over the day's reads, provers from live_proofs.prover

A line whose field the node does not expose yet is left out of the post rather than estimated (the "no number a company server has to be trusted for" rule, reinvent.md section 6).

Roles (the Discord lane, from the same fields)

Role	Granted when	Revoked when
Voter	a message signed with the vote key names a key whose voter is true in getFinalityWeights	voter false at a daily read (a key under dust, or stripped: strippedUntilDaa above the DAA score)
Window	the key's blocks span the full params.weightWindow (keys[].daysMined owed; until then by hand from the ladder summary)	the key misses a day
Prover	a paid shard record names the key (igneum_getProofRecords(block).paid[shard])	never (a paid record is a chain fact)

The signed message is the proof of key ownership; the app does not sign it yet (owed: a "prove my key" button that signs a nonce with the vote key and copies it).