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Validator School

  • 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.

Process for participation in the Validator School

  1. Fill the application for participation in the Validator School:
  1. Join Telegram group of the Validator School, and write there that you have completed the application:
  1. After reviewing your application, you need to participate in The First Meet (online meet), to clarify all questions.
    After the First Meet, if you are agree with the rules of educational proccess, your application will be approved.

If your application is approved

  • You will be given a place in an educational group.
  • Each group will be assigned several mentors who will accompany you throughout the training.
  • Each group will have a schedule of online classes.
  • To participate in the educational process, you need to have a personal computer (or laptop), an Internet connection to participate in online meetings and a microphone to participate in conversations. A video camera is not required. Some classes can be attended using a mobile phone.

How the education process works

  • The full course includes both: group and individual online lessons

  • Classes include online lectures, practical seminars and workshops, and watching educational videos (homework)

  • Learning takes place in stages: from simple to complex

  • After the complete completion of the first stage, there is a transition to the second stage, and then to the third

  • Transition to a more difficult stage is impossible without complete assimilation of the material from an easier stage

  • In case of complete misunderstanding of a more difficult stage, the participant of School returns to an easier stage

  • Education are divided into two parts: Technical and Humanities

  • Each part consists of Theoretical and Practical lessons

  • Education begins with the Humanitarian part, in order to give a complete picture of "what validation is" and "who a Validator is"

What the full course of study includes

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

Humanitarian side of validation

  1. Introduction to validation (lecture) | Slides for Lesson #1
  2. Permissionless Structures, Consensus in the blockchain and Consensus between people (lecture) | Slides for Lesson #2
  3. How not to get lost among the rest: validator packaging (seminar-lecture) | Slides for Lesson #3
  4. How to choose the Network to validate? (seminar-lecture)
  5. Different ways of contributing to the Network (seminar-lecture)
  6. How to communicate with project creators and other validators? (seminar-lecture)

Technical side of validation

  1. Introduction to Linux and Cosmos SDK documentation (workshop) | Slides for technical lesson #1
  2. What is required for validation? (lecture-seminar)
  3. Cyber-security (seminar-workshop)
  4. Communicating with blockchain (workshop)

The practical side of validation

  1. Rent a server (workshop)
  2. Prepare a server for running of node (workshop)
  3. Launching a validator on the test-net (workshop)
  4. Launching a validator on the main-net of a real blockchain project (workshop)

Additional Workshops

  1. Understanding GitHub
  2. Installing Linux
  3. Create a validator page

In case of the successful studying

  1. 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

  2. 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 ...