A full ZooBC node operated out of one box — live chain, archival mirror and an HTTPS gateway for wallets, explorers and tooling.
The node tracks the canonical chain and stores recent history locally. An archival mirror indexes blocks, transactions and movements into MariaDB so the explorer and API stay fast and complete.
Block rewards are credited to the registered node account. Keep the node online and registered for a share of every block; the watchdog keeps it that way.