📘 Overview

Validators play a critical role in DogeLayer by:

• Monitoring miner outputs
• Fetching miner performance metrics through proxy APIs
• Scoring miners based on real performance
• Submitting weights to the Bittensor subnet
• Helping maintain network integrity and fairness

Validators earn rewards for maintaining decentralized verification and contributing to the robustness of the DogeLayer ecosystem.

🧰 Requirements

To participate as a validator, you need:

1. Hardware Capability

Same server-grade needs as miners, with stable uptime.

2. TAO Staking (Required)

Validators must stake TAO to activate their validation permissions.

3. Bittensor Wallet

Coldkey + hotkey must be created and configured.

4. Registration on DogeLayer Subnet

Register wallet to DogeLayer with:

• NETUID=*