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Overview

The Furya Hub is based on CometBFT, which relies on a set of validators that are responsible for committing new blocks in the blockchain. These validators participate in the consensus protocol by broadcasting votes that contain cryptographic signatures signed by each validator’s private key.

Validator candidates can bond their own Fury and have Fury delegated, or staked, to them by token holders. The active validator set is determined by which validators have the most bonded and/or delegated Fury, with greater bonded and/or delegated FURY amounts held by a validator increasing the likelihood that the validator will be included in the active set. The Furya Chain initially allows up to 56 validators to be in the active validating set at any given time, but over time the number of validators can increase if so approved by the Furyan Council.

Validators and their delegators earn FURY as block provisions, through execution of the CometBFT consensus protocol and as Rake Fees through an allocation from dApps deployed on Furya.

Note that validators can set a commission percentage on the fees their delegators receive as additional incentive. You can find an overview of all current validators and their voting power on the Furya Explorer.

If validators double-sign, are offline for an extended period, their staked FURY (including FURY of users that delegated to them) can be slashed. The penalty depends on the severity of the violation.

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Hardware

For validator key management, validators must set up a physical operation that is secured with restricted access. A good starting place, for example, would be co-locating in secure data centers.

To meet uptime requirements and avoid slashing penalties, validators should equip their datacenter location with redundant power, connectivity, and storage backups. Expect to have several redundant networking boxes for fiber, firewall, and switching and then small servers with redundant hard drive and failover.

As the network grows, bandwidth, CPU, and memory requirements rise. Hard drives should be large enough to store years of blockchain history, and significant RAM will be required to process the increasing amount of transactions.

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Set Up a Website

A dedicated validator’s website can increase visibility. You can signal your intention to become a validator in a variety of channels, the Furya Discord being a common one. Posting your validator website can help delegators gather information about the entity they are delegating their Furya to.

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Legal Advice

You should seek legal advice if you intend to run a validator node.

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Community

Discuss the finer details of being a validator on our community Discord and follow us on Twitter to get regular updates:

• Furya Discord - https://discord.com/invite/Furyachain
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/furyachain