What You Need
- On-premises or Virtual Machine in the Cloud matching the requirements (Hardware Requirements)
- A full node (synced with parachain and relay chain block history)
- Substrate (SS58 format) account to stake funds and get rewards
- Minimum staking balance to be included in the validator set (50,000 $PEAQ)
- Session key
Validator process
- Ensure that you have a machine matching hardware requirements and an SS58 Substrate wallet with 50,000+ $PEAQ tokens
- Set up a node
- Generate session key
- Link session key to validator account
- Stake tokens and join the validator candidates pool
- Check whether you were included in the active set