Run the network

How Proof of Trust picks validators

1. Founder nodes bootstrap the network (3 today, in Germany and Finland).
2. Anyone can join if they are identity-verified in a Coalichain app and receive at least 1 public trust (this threshold will grow).
3. The validator set is recomputed every session (5 minutes), most-trusted first.
4. Once there are more candidates than seats (from 32 validators), seats rotate: besides a core of the most trusted, the other seats go in turn to every trusted candidate whose node showed it is online in the last 24 hours, so everyone validates and earns.
5. A node that stops producing blocks for about 12 minutes is set aside automatically: offline nodes can never stop the chain.

What you need

• A small always-on Linux server: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB disk (≈ €5 / month).
• A verified account on Emunify or Coali, trusted by at least one person.
• About 20 minutes, following the step-by-step guide.

What you earn

About $6 a month in ZOOZ while you are in the set, enough to pay your server, plus 60% of the fees of the votes in your blocks: the more people vote, the more you earn. On the testnet, tokens have no value.