Being A Validator
What it's like to be a validator on Harmony ONE!
Becoming a Validator
The TL;DR overview of becoming a validator at the current time
- Create nodes (servers) to sign blocks for your validator wallet
- Create a brand and market it, a lot
- Find a way to add to the community, make people know you're helping
- Answer questions in the official harmony support channels
- Work on getting more delegations, you'll need it
- Debate when it's an appropriate time to add a 2nd BLS key to your server (right now it's around 10 million before you look at a 2nd key)
- Start new nodes as info and shard conditions change daily
Setting up a Server Node
The TL;DR on creating nodes (servers)
There's really not much to configuring a new harmony node server or rolling out an additional node when needed if you're familiar with Linux and if the following list is familiar to you:
- Create cloud server
- Create a non-root user account
- Create a directory for the install files and database
- Download and install hmy & harmony
- Setup BLS keys in .hmy/blskeys
- Import or create a wallet
- Sync Database
- Install and start service
- Setup scripts to assist with management
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During Installation use our middle section along with the official Harmony guide.
After Setup Steps
The TL;DR on life after you've worked and become elected
After you're elected and you've worked hard enough to secure enough delegates to become stable here's what the validator life is like daily.
- Monitor stats non stop on Smart Stake's Next Election site
- Monitor stats on your nodes
- Monitor uptime (aka missed signings)
- Investigate missed signings
- Make decisions on adding or removing BLS keys before elections every 18ish hours
- Take crap for making any decision
- Market your brand some more to get more delegations
- Repeat