Network core · this cell and the cells it knows
Inputs · this cell
Outputs · network
- Your cell
- Connected cell (online)
- Connected cell (not answering)
- Midnight shield (starter server)
- Certified cell running AI hosts
- Found through the peer network
- Moving light: real traffic
The particle surface is an illustration; the rings are real cells.
Lights on a fiber follow this cell’s exact per-second counts (one light per envelope, or per several when busy). Lights on arcs replay the last counted 15-minute block, sped up 15 times. Drag the sphere to spin it.Drag to rotate.
Event log · seen by this page, counts only
- Waiting for the first reading…
Step 1 · Activate
Activate this cell
Link this cell to your Midnight Select account. Its online hours then count toward the Cell operator certification and DUST sponsorship.
- 1Open Midnight Select on your phone.
- 2Go to You › Network › Run a cell › Activate a cell.
- 3Scan the code. The app asks you to confirm, and this page turns live within seconds.
Live as
Have a typed link code instead?
In the app: You › Network › Run a cell › Get a link code (it lasts 15 minutes). Choose your account's home cell and type the code.
Activating tells your account's home cell which account runs this cell. If you show the Cell operator badge on your profile, people who see it know you run a cell. The code is a one-time secret that lasts 10 minutes; only its fingerprint leaves this computer.
Your activation code appears here.
Your badgeCertification
Cell operator certification
Certified Cell operator
Activate this cell to start counting its online hours.
First week (probation)
Counted from what other cells observed minute by minute, not what this cell claims: online 72 hours in the last 30 days, after the cell's first week. Certified cells can host an official community's AI guide (below).
Your impact
How your cell helps the network
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sealed messages carried
All time, rounded down to fives. Your cell can’t open any of them.
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cells you help connect
Cells behind a router that reach the network through yours, right now.
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backup copies held
Locked copies of other cells’ mail, so nothing is lost if one goes down. Rounded down to fives.
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always-on cells toward the goal of 10
With 10 always-on cells (8 of them certified) and 5 confirmed people, the starter server stands by; it comes back on its own if cells drop to 8.
Community guides
AI hosts on this cell
Checking…
| Host | Community | Role | Last sync | Greet 24 h | Answer 24 h | Flag 24 h |
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What it is
Each official community has an AI guide that greets new members, answers when asked and flags harmful posts for a human to review. Certified cells can run one, so the guides live on the network instead of one server.
What it costs you
Nothing. The AI runs on a model on this computer or on confidential machines the project pays for. Your cell just keeps the guide’s account in sync.
Privacy
A guide reads only its own community, never anyone’s private chats. Its prompts go only to an attested confidential machine (Bittensor, through Chutes) or to the model on this computer. Nothing is banned or removed automatically.
What’s needed
A certified cell: online 72 hours in the last 30 days, after its first week. Then the project owner can enroll a guide on it.
Counts only, from this computer’s host runner: never message text, members’ names or who was flagged.
Keeping up to date
Updates
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Only releases signed by Midnight Select are installed, at a quiet moment (or around 3 a.m.). Your cell’s key, messages and settings are never touched, and if a new version doesn’t start properly the previous one comes back by itself.
Cell readouts
Health
Throughput exact · last 60 s · this computer only
| Counter | Last s | Avg/s | Peak | 60 s | Trend |
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| Envelopes accepted | — | — | — | — | |
| Envelopes delivered | — | — | — | — | |
| Cell-to-cell requests served | — | — | — | — |
Counts only, kept in memory for one minute: no accounts, cells or addresses. Delivered means collected by a phone or handed to the recipient's cell.
Network counts delayed · rounded
Contribution
Achievements
Peers
| Cell | ID | Region | State | Latency | Probation | Relayed | Msgs (block) |
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Peer network (libp2p)
| Cell | ID | Region | Ping RTT | Path |
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Cells found through the DHT; each card's signature and key were checked against the libp2p peer that served it. RTT is the median of three libp2p pings.
Right now
Live throughput
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sealed envelopes per second
Warming up…
- Accepted, last minute
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- Delivered, last minute
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- Cell-to-cell requests
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Exact counts from the last 60 seconds, shown only on this computer and never shared.
Shield pulse
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The shield beats with your cell's activity in the last counted 15-minute block.
Your achievements
Badges
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messages passed along
Counts are shown in 15-minute blocks, 15 minutes late, rounded down to fives.
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carried in private tunnels
Sealed connections from phones to their own cell, passed through yours so neither cell alone knows both who and what. Same 15-minute block, rounded down to 5 MB.
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people whose home is this cell
Rounded down to fives. Your cell knows account numbers and public keys, never names, contacts or phone numbers.
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of encrypted attachments waiting
Photos and files are locked on the sender's phone before upload. They expire automatically.
Sealed envelopes through this computer
Each envelope is a message your cell passed along, still locked.
- Sealed message (your cell can't open it)
- Private tunnel traffic
Your help this month
Your certification progress is at the top of this page.
- Online without a restart
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- Counted online, last 7 days
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- Counted online, all time
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- Messages passed along, last counted block
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- Tunnelled, last counted block
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- Seen while this page was open
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Hours are what other cells observed, minute by minute, not what this cell claims. Certification: online 72 hours in the last 30 days, after the cell's first week (probation). Message and tunnel counts are delayed 15 minutes and rounded down to fives.
How your computer is doing
Processor (this cell only)—
Memory (this cell only)—
A cell is light: it stores small encrypted envelopes until phones collect them, then deletes them. The ring fills once per day of uptime.
Explained
Midnight, NIGHT and DUST in plain language
Midnight
A blockchain built for privacy. You choose what to reveal: a proof can show something is true (for example, "this payment is covered") without showing everything behind it.
NIGHT, the token
Midnight's token. You can hold it and send it. Holding NIGHT does something useful: it generates DUST.
DUST, the battery
DUST pays for transactions on Midnight. It's shielded (private) and can't be sent to anyone. Think of it as a battery that NIGHT keeps charging: it slowly refills up to a limit set by how much NIGHT backs it.
Sponsorship
DUST itself can't be given away, but a NIGHT holder can point its DUST generation at someone else's wallet. That is how the Midnight Select Treasury can cover fees for people.
Your rewards
How your DUST grows with your help
- Your cell stays online. Other cells check it minute by minute.
- Your account's home cell counts the hours for the last 30 days.
- The Midnight Select Treasury points DUST generation at operators in proportion to counted hours, capped per person.
- DUST arrives in your wallet and pays your fees on Midnight.
Sponsorship starts when the Treasury is set up on Midnight's test network.
Example, not your numbers
Midnight's documentation gives this example: 1,000 NIGHT backs up to 5,000 DUST, and the battery takes about a week to fill. When the Treasury sponsors you, its NIGHT does the charging and the DUST lands in your wallet. The sharing rules (caps per person) are published before sponsorship starts.
How you help the community
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No single company holds everyone's mail
Each person's mailbox lives on one cell, and cells are run by different people. Your computer carries part of the load instead of one big data centre.
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Harder to shut down
If one cell goes offline, the others keep working, and messages for it wait until it returns. Every new cell makes the network sturdier.
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Sealed messages it can't read
Messages are end-to-end encrypted on people's phones with the Signal Protocol. Your cell only holds locked envelopes and deletes each one once it is collected.
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Private tunnels
A phone can reach its own cell through yours. Your cell sees where the connection comes from but only sealed bytes; the other cell sees what but not where from. Neither knows both who and what.
What your cell can see, like any mail server: which account a waiting envelope is for and from, when it arrived and how big it is. It keeps no IP-address logs. Running a cell doesn't make anyone anonymous.
Connected cells
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Your cell's public card
- Cell code
—- Cell ID
—- Public key
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This card is safe to share. When your cell joins the shared network on its own, its ID, coarse region and public key are listed for other cells (people see every cell by a 4-character code made from its ID, never a chosen name); a new cell is "on probation" for its first week, so other cells trust established cells first.