Validator guide

Use the maintained validator guide

Validator deployment belongs to the public protocol repository. Read its current guide before choosing a mode or preparing a host.

Running a validator — Supported modes, prerequisites, deployment, and verification.

Protocol concepts — Understand validation, training, and weight updates.

Choose the operator mode

The guide distinguishes weight-only validation from the trainer role. Weight-only is the documented path for most operators and uses a CPU host. The trainer role owns additional training and verification responsibilities and has separate capacity requirements.

Use the prerequisites and release instructions for the chosen mode. The presence of public monitoring data does not establish that a validator deployment is configured or submitting weights.

Verify participation

Confirm the registered wallet and validator permission, then verify the mode’s expected behavior through its documented checks. Keep software release, configured mode, runtime health, and on-chain weight submission as separate evidence.

Inspect public evidence

Chain & emissions — Read published metagraph and finalized allocation evidence.

Network status — Inspect public source and collection health.