Stake Directory Updates

SYLO holders can alter their staking arrangements at any time - however, to avoid peer’s Seeker Nodes changing mid-epoch, these changes only take effect on the stake directory when the epoch changes. This ensures that a peer’s Seeker Node is consistent for the entire epoch.

Because the stake directory is updated each epoch, and because the scan function takes the epoch number as input to it’s hash, each peer’s Seeker Node is randomized each epoch. This provides additional security against traffic analysis, and ensures that nodes receive work in proportion to their stake over the long run, regardless of epoch-by-epoch traffic variation.