This guide gathers all the relevant information on becoming a collator. Make sure to learn about ‣ and check out the ‣. To learn more about being a Delegator, visit the ‣. To allow multiple types of liquidity to be staked on your node take a look at the ‣.

There are also some useful guides prepared by the team and the community with simple How-to manuals for typical collator operator actions:

Collator How-to’s

Table of contents

Getting Started

Please make sure to familiarize yourself with ‣. We are currently preparing the transition to permissionless node selection. To understand the transition process, please watch the full presentation

To connect to the Mangata Collator Community, join the collators chat here: https://discord.gg/mangata

Watch this first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6LhTLxLSok&feature=youtu.be

Roadmap

Requirements

Until we have more empirical data points, we are copying the node requirements for running a Polkadot validator:

• 4 vCPU
• 16 GB RAM
• 1 TB SSD
• Ubuntu 20.04

Setup Instructions

The recommended way to set up your node is to use the Docker image we provide with every release. You can also choose the manual setup route, but our team will not provide support if you will have issues setting up your node in that way.