Stake Requirements

This page provides an overview of the stake requirements to become a validator on the consensus layer, to run a ParaTime compute nodes and to run observer nodes on the Oasis Network.

Registering an Entity

To register an entity you are going to need at least:

	Mainnet	Testnet
Entity Registration	100 ROSE	100 TEST
Each Node Registration	100 ROSE	100 TEST

Validator Node

To become a validator on the consensus layer, you will need to have enough ROSE for registering your entity, registering your validator node, and be among the top entities by stake to be included in the validator set.

You can check the current top validators on the blockchain explorers like the Oasis Scan.

For the Testnet, you can receive a limited number of TEST tokens by using our Oasis Network Testnet Faucet. For more tokens please contact us on our official Discord in the #testnet channel.

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You can use the Oasis CLI to check your account and the network parameters. Use the oasis account show command to check your entity's account and oasis network show native-token to see the current values used by the network.

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To determine if you are eligible to receive a delegation from the Oasis Protocol Foundation, see the Delegation Policy document.

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The size of the consensus committee (i.e. the validator set) is configured by the max_validators consensus parameter.

ParaTime Compute Node

To run a ParaTime compute node you will need to have a minimum stake which currently is:

	Mainnet	Testnet
Sapphire	5,000,100 ROSE	100 TEST
Emerald	5,000,100 ROSE	100 TEST
Cipher	100 ROSE	100 TEST

To run a ParaTime compute node, on Mainnet you will also have to be in the validator set:

	Mainnet - Validator Set	Testnet - Validator Set
Sapphire	Yes	No
Emerald	Yes	No
Cipher	Yes	No

ParaTime Observer Node

To run a ParaTime observer nodes, you will need to register an entity and add your observer nodes to the entity descriptor.