Become a Kima validator

Created by Dan Sch, Modified on Wed, 22 Jan at 8:31 AM by Dan Sch

The Kima blockchain relies on a network of validator nodes for its security and consensus. KIMA tokens are distributed to validators as an incentive for their participation in the network.


You can read more about both Kima's incentive model and its innovative security architecture in the White Paper

Two areas of Kima's security architecture stand out:

    • Threshold signature schemes (TSSs) allow a group of participants (“cosigners”) to securely generate and control the secret signing key for a digital signature scheme, such that a certain threshold (e.g. 2-out-of-3 or 7-out-of-10) cosigners must participate in, and agree upon, the signing protocol in order to generate a signature.
    • To further complement security, Kima wardens run the threshold signature scheme inside an SGX enclave, thus the TSS key-shares are not directly accessible to the wardens or their system administrators.

Hardware and System Requirements

Because of the very specific nature of Kima's security model, explained in the validators intro and in the Kima White Paper, you need to ensure you meet the following hardware requirements before you become a Kima validator:

* Must be an Intel XEON E-series or any other XEON supporting SGX-SPS (Server Platform Services). The motherboard must also support SGX.

* CPU: 4vCPU (8vCPU recommended)

* RAM: 16GB (32GB recommended)

* Storage: 512GB HDD (1TB recommended)

* Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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