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The State of XPR Network Block Producers

The State of XPR Network Block Producers

8 September 202610 min read
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Every voter on XPR Network has the same problem: how do you tell a block producer that ships from one that just parks a domain? The producer table gives you a URL. Most producers publish a working bp.json behind it. So does that make them equal?

No — and here's the part that took us a while to get right.

Infrastructure is the floor, not the ceiling

Every BP has to run nodes. Every BP has to publish a valid bp.json. Every BP has to keep their seeds up so other BPs can peer. That's not something to be proud of; it's the minimum requirement to be a BP at all. If a producer can't do that, they shouldn't be in the schedule.

Making a status page, a Code of Conduct, or a snapshot service is nice, and we ship all three ourselves at ProtonNZ — but they're table stakes for infra. Voting on which BP has the shiniest status page is like voting on which restaurant has the cleanest kitchen. Yes it matters. No, it shouldn't be the reason you eat somewhere.

This isn't just our opinion. The official XPR Network Block Producer Code of Conduct, which every BP is expected to sign, says it directly in Section 6.1:

BPs shall actively contribute to the growth and development of the XPR Network ecosystem by providing educational resources, technical support, and mentorship.

The real question is: what have they built on XPR Network?

The methodology

We took the full list of active block producers from the eosio producers table (is_active == 1, 37 producers at the time of writing), verified every URL was reachable, then went through each site and counted the dapps they've shipped on XPR Network.

We did not count:

  • Nodes, seed servers, Hyperion history, status pages, or any BP infrastructure
  • The BP's own marketing site
  • Docs of protocol features they didn't build
  • Products they ship on other chains (Solana bots, WAX games, EOS wallets, generic multi-chain infra)
  • Partner products they resell but didn't build

We did count: live web apps, wallets, DEXes, DeFi tools, NFT platforms, tax/analytics apps, bots, browser extensions, mobile apps, games, and SDKs that run on or exist to serve XPR Network users.

We did not count thin AI wrappers: MCP servers that expose XPR tools to LLM agents, and "chat with XPR" style products that are essentially a system prompt on top of a public chain. Those are useful, but they're not products a user or developer opens for its own sake — they're glue for something else.

BPs — if we got you wrong, tell us. This audit is done in good faith from public information at a single point in time. If you're a block producer on XPR Network and we've missed a dapp you've shipped, mislabelled something you built, or got any of the details wrong, please contact us and we'll update the post and the count. The goal is an honest picture of the ecosystem, not a scoreboard.

Treat these numbers as a floor, not a ceiling. Our method reads what's publicly linked from each BP's on-chain URL, plus a certificate-transparency sweep for subdomains. That misses products on entirely separate domains, anything announced only on X or Telegram, and sites that block automated requests. Several BPs on this list have already been moved up after they pointed us at something we couldn't see — every one of those corrections came from the BP, not from us. Assume there are more.

The rankings

1. protonnz — 12 dapps

Full disclosure: this is us. In case you want to check the work:

  • Private Transactions — confidential transfers on XPR with mandatory auditor viewing key (contract xprconf)
  • XPR Agents — trustless AI agent registry with KYC + escrow
  • Shellbook — social network for on-chain AI agents
  • Simple DEX — AMM DEX for XPR tokens
  • XPR Tax — full-history tax exports for XPR accounts
  • XPR Auth Cleanup — one-click remover for wallet-drainer permissions
  • Proton Link — wallet linking utilities for XPR dapps, including Price Battle, a live price-prediction game
  • Chain Runner — 3D endless runner with on-chain leaderboard + NFT skins
  • GLBDEX — 3D-model marketplace for the metaverse, on XPR
  • XPR Slots — provably-fair slots
  • XPR Network Dev Skill — Claude Code skill covering XPR smart contracts, CLI, and SDK
  • Charlie — the first AI agent on XPR Network. Built under our direction, Charlie now ships its own tooling: a machine-payments playground (paid HTTP 402 endpoints settled in XPR), an agent-services discovery file, an agent receipt trail built on XPR Agents escrow, the SimpleDEX Conspiracy Board token map, mppx-xpr-network on npm, Hyperion endpoint-rotation tooling, and a running build log. You can talk to it directly at @charliebot87.

We also ship PulseVM Docs and the Pulse Cutover toolkit, but those are forward-looking infrastructure for the A-Chain migration — not products serving XPR users today. Under the "does this help XPR grow now?" criterion in this post, they don't count. If we're going to be strict about others, we have to be strict about ourselves.

You can see them all on our projects page.

2. cafe (Metallicus) — 5 dapps

Metallicus is the parent company that built XPR Network itself. Their shipped user-facing product line: WebAuth Wallet, Metal X (order-book DEX), LOAN (the lending protocol on Metal X), Metal Dollar (XMD stablecoin), and the XPR Network Explorer (Bloks). Everyone on XPR uses at least one of these every day.

3. alvosec — 4 dapps

A security company running a BP, and shipping like one. Xprotect Scanner (web3 domain/phishing intelligence, WebAuth login, XPR-paid credits), XPR AI Assistant (WebAuth-gated dev help chat), an open-source Metal X trading bot, and GeneroX (a next-generation crypto donations platform at generox.org, WebAuth-signed, live on XPR). Genuinely differentiated work — nobody else on the network is filling the security-and-tools niche at this depth.

This count undersells them, and it's worth being explicit about why. We count separately-branded products, which suits how most BPs package their work — but alvosec bundles theirs. Xprotect alone is a platform of roughly eight distinct on-chain tools behind one login: domain and browser scanning, Web3 DNS, on-chain document and message signing, on-chain user reputation scores, an xToken vault, a scam phone-number check, and a live BP monitor with latency heatmaps. Under a per-tool count they'd rank far higher. Packaging isn't output.

4. homebloksbp, protonind — 3 dapps each

  • homebloksbp — BlastPad (launchpad for tokens, airdrops, staking pools), XPR Escrow (smart-contract escrow for P2P trades), and Crypto Travel Deals (travel booking paid in XPR ecosystem tokens). Three different verticals, all with WebAuth integration.
  • protonind — XPR Voter Intelligence / "XPR Radar" (track vote health and identify ghost BPs at xpr.voterintelligence.blocksindia.com), the XPR Msig App (governance tool to remove inactive BPs at xpr-rmvproducer-msig-app.vercel.app), and XPR Casino (Spin & Win / Scratch & Win at xprcasino.blocksindia.com). We don't count their MCP server or TalkToXPR chat here — see the note on AI wrappers in the methodology above.

5. madblocks, rockeronebp, bloxprod, xprdata, chaininfra — 2 dapps each

  • madblocks — MadTower (climb-and-cash-out game with a real XPR pot) and MadRaffle (voter-facing raffle from BP rewards).
  • rockeronebp — Neard (on-chain music streaming with real-time artist payouts) and Railgun (signature-less session protocol for XPR apps).
  • bloxprod — NFTPacks (random-mint NFT pack launchpad) and NFTClaimHub (streak pools, airdrops, and reward claims for NFT holders).
  • xprdata — XPR Dashboard (portfolio tracking, price history, SimpleLaunch tracking) and Whale Watcher (real-time large-transfer feed).
  • chaininfra — ChainInfra Arcade / Blockchain Pop (match-3 orb game with daily XPR prizes at arcade.chaininfra.net) and an XPR vote-delegation tool at vote.chaininfra.net.

6. Single-dapp BPs

blocksforge (XPROLL, a daily roll-to-earn XPR game at dice.blocksforge.com), brotonbp (XPR Whales Alert Telegram bot), storexbp (Storex marketplace), snipverse (SocialFi platform), danemarkbp (XPR Tax Time Machine), artwebin (XPR Hub), bpadex (A-DEX XPR deployment), protonuk (ProtonLive at protonlive.io — currently showing "New Version Coming Soon"; historically shipped, now being rebuilt), and saltant (Benchmark Services, a public XPR node benchmarking tool).

BPs with no shipped XPR dapps

catsvote, cerebroai, cindronet, cryptolions, eosamsterdam, eosarabianet, eosiodetroit, eosrio, eosusa, energybp, genereos, ledgerwiseio, luminaryvisn, protonmadrid, totalproton, turtlebp, xprcore, xprnodeonebp.

To be clear about what this bucket means: from an XPR voter's point of view, it doesn't matter whether a BP is idle, publishes only infra, or ships products on other chains — the answer to "what have they shipped for XPR users?" is the same either way. A wallet on WAX or a staking tool on Decred is real work, but it's not why an XPR voter would pick that BP.

Some of these have announced XPR things (cindronet's WezaPay, ledgerwise's tools subdomain) that don't currently resolve to a working app. That still counts as unshipped for now.

The honest headline

18 of 36 non-ProtonNZ BPs ship at least one XPR-specific dapp. 4 ship 3 or more. Cafe (Metallicus) leads the rest at 5; alvosec is next at 4.

Rounding is doing some work here — Metallicus built the entire network, so ranking their product output against ours isn't quite fair either direction. But excluding them, the gap between ProtonNZ and the next independent builder-BP is 12 vs 4.

If you filter for "BPs whose product output is roughly proportional to their BP rewards," alvosec, homebloksbp, protonind, madblocks, rockeronebp, bloxprod, and xprdata are the ones we'd point voters at first — because they're actively shipping user-facing XPR software, not just running nodes.

A note to fellow BPs

To every producer on this list who hasn't shipped an XPR dapp yet: consider building one. The Code of Conduct commits every BP to contributing to the growth of the network, and the most direct way to do that is to ship something users open. It doesn't have to be big — a small utility, a bot, a niche tool for holders — anything that puts real product into the ecosystem. The more BPs building, the healthier XPR gets, and we'd be genuinely happy to see these rankings tighten up.

The takeaway for voters

Vote for the BPs building the apps you actually use.

Running a node is a job. Building a dapp that a real user opens is a different job. Both matter. But if you want to reward the second, you have to look past the shiny infra pages and ask: what did you actually ship for XPR users this year?

Voting on XPR happens as part of staking — when you stake your XPR, you vote for up to 4 block producers at the same time. Even if you already know which BP you like most, you still have to pick three others. This post exists partly to help with that decision.

If ProtonNZ is one of the four BPs you want backing the network, we'd appreciate one of those votes. Open WebAuth, tap XPR → Staking, add or edit your producer choices, and include protonnz in the four.

Numbers reflect the state of the active BP list on the date of publication. The field changes; the check is worth re-running periodically. If we missed a dapp you shipped on XPR that fits our criteria, let us know via the contact page and we'll update the count.