Run an ALYX Validator
Join alyx-1 and help secure the Autonomous Intelligence Layer. ALYX validators protect consensus, staking, DEX settlement, TokenFactory assets, and AI execution payment rails.
🚀 Quick Install
The recommended path downloads the ALYX-hosted installer mirror, verifies the published mainnet artifacts, installs the checksum-locked binary, and creates a systemd service. This avoids depending only on GitHub raw during validator onboarding.
curl -fsSL https://alyxai.org/downloads/alyx-1/install-validator.sh \ -o install-validator.sh chmod +x install-validator.sh NETWORK=mainnet \ MONIKER=my-alyx-validator \ ./install-validator.sh sudo systemctl start alyxd
Use NETWORK=mainnet for alyx-1. Do not use NETWORK=testnet or alyxtest-4 instructions for mainnet validators.
🌐 Public Discovery
genesis: https://alyxai.org/networks/alyx-1/genesis.json addrbook: https://alyxai.org/networks/alyx-1/addrbook.json installer: https://alyxai.org/downloads/alyx-1/install-validator.sh
Public onboarding uses the official genesis, addrbook, and seed/discovery infrastructure. Validator peer addresses are not published on this page.
⚡ RPC Endpoints
https://rpc.alyxai.org https://api.alyxai.org local node: http://127.0.0.1:26657
Keep validator RPC private. Use public RPC/API infrastructure for wallets, explorers, and integrations.
⛽ Minimum Gas Price
minimum-gas-prices = "0.001ualyx"
🧰 Dependency Safe Mode
If a server already has curl, wget, jq, git, Go, and Cosmovisor available, operators can bypass apt mirror issues with:
SKIP_APT=1 \ NETWORK=mainnet \ MONIKER=my-alyx-validator \ ./install-validator.sh
⚡ Sync Policy
State sync is not advertised until production snapshot serving is enabled, tested, and maintained. The current official onboarding path uses block sync from the published ALYX mainnet genesis, checksum-verified binary, official addrbook, and public discovery infrastructure.
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:26657/status \ | jq '.result.node_info.network, .result.sync_info.latest_block_height, .result.sync_info.catching_up' curl -s http://127.0.0.1:26657/net_info | jq '.result.n_peers' sha256sum $HOME/.alyx/cosmovisor/current/bin/alyxd
🖥️ Recommended Hardware
🧾 Create Validator
After the node is fully synced and funded, create the validator with avalidator.json file. Do not create-validator until catching_up is false.
alyxd comet show-validator --home $HOME/.alyx alyxd keys add my-validator --keyring-backend test --home $HOME/.alyx # After funding the wallet, create validator with a validator.json file: alyxd tx staking create-validator validator.json \ --from my-validator \ --keyring-backend test \ --home $HOME/.alyx \ --chain-id alyx-1 \ --node http://127.0.0.1:26657 \ --fees 1000ualyx \ -y
💰 Validator Economics
ALYX validators are funded through self-stake, public delegation, network rewards, transaction fees, and early-phase bootstrap support.
Validators bond their own ALYX to participate in consensus and show long-term alignment with the network.
ALYX holders may delegate stake to validators. Validators earn commission from staking rewards and network fee flow.
During early mainnet, selected reliable validators may receive bootstrap delegation to strengthen network resilience.
🛡️ Security Best Practices
- • Do not expose validator RPC publicly.
- • Keep validator keys and signer material protected.
- • Back up
priv_validator_key.jsonsecurely. - • Open only required P2P networking. Restrict RPC, API, and gRPC to trusted access.
- • Use public RPC/API infrastructure or sentry nodes instead of exposing validators directly.
- • Monitor missed blocks, disk usage, memory usage, peer count, and service uptime.
🧠 Network Architecture
Consensus security and block production. Validator peer addresses are not published as public onboarding defaults.
Public discovery helps new nodes find the network without exposing every validator address as official public infrastructure.
Public execution, queries, wallets, explorers, and integrations should use dedicated RPC/API infrastructure.
✅ Verification Commands
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:26657/status \ | jq '.result.node_info.network, .result.sync_info.latest_block_height, .result.sync_info.catching_up' curl -s https://alyxai.org/api/network/overview | jq '.chainId,.activeValidators' alyxd query staking validators \ --node http://127.0.0.1:26657 \ -o json | jq '[.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")] | length'
Ready to secure ALYX?
ALYX mainnet is live with DEX, TokenFactory, AI execution, and six bonded validators. Professional operators are invited to join the next phase of the Autonomous Intelligence Layer.