Run a node
Node economics
The mechanics of operating a validator: how rewards fund security, what slashing and jailing penalise, and the timing parameters that govern an operator's bond.
Security economics
Rewards fund security.
Rewards exist to compensate operators for the cost and risk of securing the network. They are a security budget, not a return — the figure that matters is whether the network stays neutral and live.
Penalties
Slashing and jailing.
The network protects itself by penalising operators that act against it or go dark. Slashing removes bonded stake; jailing temporarily ejects an operator from the active set.
Slashing risk is real
Bonded stake can be slashed for equivocation or provable faults, and an operator can be jailed for downtime. Run redundant, well-monitored infrastructure and never run two nodes signing with the same key. Confirmed conditions and amounts are published in the docs.Timing
Uptime, epochs, and unbonding.
Operators commit to an uptime target, are evaluated over epochs, and must wait through an unbonding period before stake becomes liquid again.
Honest economics. Honest risk.
Security economics, stated mechanically — rewards, slashing, and the timing that binds them.