Why operators stake
- Skin in the game — a bonded operator has something at risk for misbehaving.
- Sybil resistance — staking makes it costly to spin up fake nodes.
- Alignment — operators are also stakers, so they share in network rewards.
What’s required
- Stake at least the minimum required to register a compute node (shown in the staking app).
- Staking is non-custodial — your principal stays in an on-chain program only you can withdraw from, after a cooldown.
- The stake is bonded to the wallet you run the node under.
Slashing — narrow and fair
- Slashing penalizes proven tampering with confidential-compute results — nothing else.
- Honest downtime is never slashed. Maintenance/offline simply means you stop receiving jobs.
- Behave honestly and your principal is never at risk.