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Hermes User Guide

Welcome to Hermes!

Hermes is an open source rewards management system designed by the IoTeX Foundation.

Trusted

Guaranteed by verified smart contracts (open source)

Automated

Automatic daily rewards calculation and distribution

Transparent

Trackable payments for Delegates and voters

Convenient

Free for Delegates for reduced operational costs

What is Hermes?

The IoTeX Network utilizes Roll-DPoS consensus, where community-elected Delegates manage consensus on behalf of the network. Delegates receive IOTX rewards for their services (e.g., producing blocks), which they then share with their voters. Hermes is designed to bring reliability and transparency to the rewards distribution process for both Delegates and voters. With Hermes, Delegates can auto-distribute rewards every day, while their voters can easily track their reward payments. Delegates that currently use Hermes have a ‘Hermes’ badge on the voting website.

Hermes Features

For Voters

Hermes uses smart contracts to automate the rewards distribution process — this means all of the individual transactions are open and transparent to everyone! We have created services that make viewing and managing your rewards simple

Personal rewards history

Enter your IoTeX address to see your full history of Hermes rewards payment transactions; you can also enter a Delegate’s name to see a paginated list of all of their transactions

Rewards forwarding service

If you would like your rewards to go to a different IoTeX address than the one you used to stake/vote, you can use our service to forward rewards to another account.

Other feature requests? Let us know on Telegram or email zhefeng@iotex.io.

For Delegates

By registering with Hermes, Delegates can automatically claim, calculate, and distribute rewards to all voters on a daily basis (see below for technical details). Delegates that use Hermes can also access a full history of all of their reward distributions. Hermes is available for free for all IoTeX Delegates — register today by following the simple instructions below:

Step 1. Set Portions

Set your reward percentages here.

Step 2. Set Reward Address

Set your Delegate “Reward Address” to:

Option 1 (Recommended)

“io19604a05s2p3mecam2zz7d27hcr6ndyw80wvkmh”

Option 2

“io12mgttmfa2ffn9uqvn0yn37f4nz43d248l2ga85”

Step 3. You Are All Set

After 24 hours, your rewards will be auto-distributed on a daily basis.

Technology Overview

Daily Rewards Distribution

Hermes is a cron job that is triggered daily, which automates the claiming and distributing of rewards for Delegates. Every time Hermes starts, the system first claims all applicable rewards from the blockchain. Then it checks the status of past distributions stored inside the Hermes smart contract to ensure there are no missing distributions or recipients. After the check, the system calculates the next appropriate distribution by querying iotex-analytics for bookkeeping data of each Hermes Delegate within the distribution period. Finally, the Hermes smart contract invokes an underlying multi-send smart contract to distribute the correct amount of rewards to all voters.

Rewards Distribution History

Rewards Distribution History: As the entire rewards distribution process is managed by smart contract, the history of Hermes distributions is viewable by anyone. To create the distribution history, iotex-analytics reads receipts of the Hermes smart contract, recording the action hash and Delegate information. This information is joined with the ‘balance_history’ table to create a full Hermes distribution history, which is query-able by Delegate name or voter’s IoTeX address.

Rewards Forwarding Service

This service is powered by smart contract. When you register a forwarding address (i.e., new address that will receive rewards), the smart contract validates your signature and stores a record of both your original staking and new forwarding addresses. During the daily rewards distribution, the Hermes smart contract will verify whether a forwarding address is associated with each staking address by reading the forwarding service smart contract. If yes, Hermes will distribute rewards to the forwarding address. If no, Hermes will distribute rewards to the staking address.

For more details, see the open source Hermes Github and join the discussion on Telegram.

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