Chain overview

Head block 31341 signed by 143 of 1,313 seated under the threshold as THIS node holds it

Over 100 blocks, 31242 to 31341: fewest 130, mean 152, most 170 distinct seats signing. 0 of 100 reached the threshold. 477 distinct seats of 1,313 were seen signing over that window — 36.3% of the roll, each identified by a signature inside a sealed block, and 65 of them sealed one. Neither is a count of seats online. A seat missing from the window has very likely not had a turn: the rotation gives each seat one slot, so a full turn of this roll takes about 1 h. A bounded window, not the whole chain — a fold over a whole chain is work a stranger should not be able to buy with a refresh.

These signature counts are this node’s own evidence, not the network’s. A block’s signatures are carried outside its hash, are agreed by nothing, and are collected by each node for itself after the block is sealed — so two honest nodes legitimately hold different sets for the same height, and asking seven of them returns seven answers. The seat count and the quorum threshold above are different in kind: those are chain state, read at a height. Finality does not depend on any of it: the line is a fixed depth below the head and reads no signature at all.

Seats do not vote. The roll decides who may seal; the electorate is a separate register — see Governance. The whole participation panel and every seat are one click away.