Overview

An Axelar network validator participates in block creation, multi-party cryptography protocols, and voting.

Convert your existing Axelar node into a validator by running the companion processes and staking AXL tokens. Once it is running, your validator can also verify consensus chains.

Prerequisites

• Hardware: Minimum: 16 cores, 16GB RAM, 1.5 TB drive. Recommended: 32 cores, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB+ drive.
• A fully synced Axelar node (see Sync a node), and familiarity with Basic node management.

Steps to become a validator

1. Set up vald and tofnd: install the companion processes, create your accounts and keys, and launch them.
2. Register and stake: register your broadcaster account and stake AXL.
3. Run a health check.
4. Optionally, verify consensus chains to earn additional rewards.

Prefer to set everything up by hand, or recovering a validator from its mnemonic and keys? See Manual setup.

If something goes wrong, see Troubleshooting. To stop being a validator, see Leave the network.