- Do you want to become a Validator, but don't know how to start?
- Are you looking for a mentor who will explain the specifics of validation?
- Need online support for running a validator on the main-net?
DVS and Sputnik Foundation launch a Validator School, which will help you acquire the necessary knowledge to validate blockchains, and will provide full online support from the beginning to the launch of the validator.
The most capable students will be able to synchronize with the DVS.
- Fill the application for participation in the Validator School:
- Join Telegram group of the Validator School, and write there that you have completed the application:
- After reviewing your application, you may be asked a few clarifying questions.
Based on the data from your application, as well as based on the answers to additional questions, your application will be approved or rejected.
If the application is rejected, it will be possible to re-submit it after 21 days.
Depending on your application, you will either:
- Provided the necessary knowledge (online consultation, links to documentation)
- Provided a place in the educational
- Provided a mentor represented by one of the DVS validators
- Provided online support and support from one of the DVS validators
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The full course includes both: group and individual online lessons
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Classes include online lectures, practical seminars and workshops, and watching educational videos (homework)
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Learning takes place in stages: from simple to complex
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After the complete completion of the first stage, there is a transition to the second stage, and then to the third
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Transition to a more difficult stage is impossible without complete assimilation of the material from an easier stage
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In case of complete misunderstanding of a more difficult stage, the participant of School returns to an easier stage
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Education are divided into two parts: Technical and Humanities
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Each part consists of Theoretical and Practical lessons
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Education begins with the Humanitarian part, in order to give a complete picture of "what validation is" and "who a Validator is"
some seminars require financial costs, which the participant of the school assumes.
in individual cases, financial costs can be reimbursed from the funds of the fundoundation
- Overview of the current situation in the field of validation, Different roles of validators in the blockchain, Validation as a hobby and as a way to make money (lecture)
- Permissionless Structures, Consensus in the blockchain and Consensus between people (lecture)
- How not to get lost among the rest: packing the validator (seminar-lecture)
- How to choose the Network to validate? (seminar-lecture)
- What can the Validator brings to the Network, besides security? (seminar-lecture)
- How to communicate with project creators and other validators? (seminar-lecture)
- Problems of Validators and ways to solve them (seminar-lecture)
- Acquaintance with Linux and CosmosSDK documentation (seminar-workshop)
- What is required for validation? (lecture-seminar)
- Cyber-security (seminar-workshop)
- Acquaintance with Linux (seminar-workshop)
- How to communicate with the blockchain (seminar-workshop)
- Launching the test validator (workshop)
- Updating the validator (workshop)
- Participation in the test network of a real blockchain project (seminar-workshop)
- Participation in the main network of a real blockchain project (seminar-workshop)
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If you prove yourself in the studying process and also correspond for the minimum requirements for Validators DVS, you may be invited to become a part of Decentralized Autonomous Synchronization DVS, which will give you additional features
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Depending on your skills and talents, you may be asked to join the DVS, Sputnik Foundation or Sputnik Network as a team member for:
- Development of software code
- Design and Graphics
- Content creation
- Community development
- Moderation of social networks
- Organization of events and competitions
- Development of games on the blockchain
- Fund management
- Much more ...