Becoming a Validator

Becoming a validator is a mix of governance approval and operator setup.

Local Setup

Generate validator material:

uv run xian keys validator generate --out-dir ./keys/validator-1

Join or create the target network profile:

uv run xian network join validator-1 --network mainnet \
  --validator-key-ref ./keys/validator-1/validator_key_info.json \
  --stack-dir ../xian-stack

Initialize the node home:

uv run xian node init validator-1

Start and verify:

uv run xian node start validator-1
uv run xian node status validator-1

Network Admission

The operational setup above only prepares the node. Whether the node becomes an active validator depends on the target network's on-chain validator/membership rules and governance process.

Inspect the target network bundle in xian-configs and the canonical contracts, especially members.s.py, for the active policy.