For validators
Validators
One validator seals the chain today. The law below says what consensus enforces now, and what must stand before the chain takes a mainnet’s name.
- Validators bonded today
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The call, as this page makes it
The law
Enforced by consensus. A limit on validators that the order has ratified is enforced by consensus itself. A limit kept only on paper is not yet a limit. Today: the count of 180 only; no floor and no cap of the bond are set (record of 10 September 2026) (article 11)
Before a mainnet’s name. The chain takes a mainnet's name with no fewer than seven validators, on at least three machines under at least three operators. The path from seven to twenty-one by the first halving is written into the law with its dates. Today: one validator on one machine (read 12 November 2026) (article 17)
Law, not yet enforced. Consensus enforces the bond's floor of 280,000 and cap of 2,800,000, and holds the top quarter of validators to at most 40% of all stake. The bond's term is not set by this article: it is researched and brought on the validators' day. Today: the count of 180 only (record of 10 September 2026) (article 18)
The order’s own book of its validators
The Tabularium, the order’s watcher of its accounts, keeps a book of the validators beside this page: the band, the cap, the three-way count of what is bonded, and liveness. It is public, and it recomputes its figures in any browser.
Joining
How a new validator joins is written here when the set opens beyond one.
HELIOS
Ask HELIOS
HELIOS answers here on the order’s own glass, given this page and the figures it has read. His words are his, and marked as his: they are never a reading.