Running a Validator
Becoming a Gno.land validator
The Gno.land blockchain is powered by the Tendermint2 (TM2) consensus,
which involves committing of new blocks and broadcasting votes by multiple validators selected via governance
in Proof of Contribution (PoC). While traditional Proof of
Stake (PoS) blockchains such as the Cosmos Hub required validators to secure a delegation of staked tokens to join the
validator set, no bonding of capital is involved in Gno.land. Rather, the validators on Gno.land are expected to
demonstrate their technical expertise and alignment with the project by making continuous, meaningful contributions to
the project. Furthermore, the voting power and the transaction fee rewards between validators are distributed evenly to
achieve higher decentralization. From a technical perspective, the validator set implementation in Gno.land as its
abstracted away into the r/sys/vals realm (work in progress), as a form
of smart-contract, for modularity, whereas existing blockchains include the validator management logic within the
consensus layer.