Guide: How to stake THETA with a Guardian Node

​🏁 0. Prerequisites
Processor: Quad cores or more
Memory: 8GB RAM or more
Storage: 256GB SSD or more
Internet: 24/7 broadband internet connection 5 Mbps or more
Power: 24/7 electrical power
THETA balance: 10000 Theta or more
​🏗 1. Setting up your Guardian Node
Windows
Linux / MacOS
Windows
​🤖1. Create a Node
Download the Windows binaries​
Run the binary
Click continue
Create your Guardian Node password
Click Create Node
When Windows asks, click Allow Access so the node can use internet.
Click continue on the Welcome screen
​⚙2. Sync your node
Sync your node to the tip of the blockchain can take minutes up to an hour depending on the performance of your computer.
​💸3. Deposit stake to your node
Once your node is fully synchronized, you will see a Guardian Node Holder (Summary). Copy and paste into your Theta wallet's "Deposit Stake" function.
Copy the Summary and paste into your Theta wallet's Deposit Stake function
Using your Theta wallet, enter the summary, your amount to stake then deposit stake.
​✅ 4. Validate your node is working
Verify that
the stake amount is correct
there are some Guardian Peers connected
Network Height number is increasing
there is Recent Activity
Verifying a functioning node
​✨Congratulations! Your Theta Guardian Node is working to finalize blocks and will earn TFUEL.
Every 10 minutes or 100 blocks, your Guardian node is rewarded TFUEL for it's work done. It may take up to half an hour before you see your first payout.
You can view your TFUEL rewards in your THETA wallet or view them on the block explorer.​
Linux / MacOS
​🤖 1. Download and create a node
First install curl if you need to.
sudo apt install curl -y
Install Theta binaries. If you're using macOS, update the URLs so that os=macos
mkdir ~/theta-node && cd ~/theta-node
mkdir guardian
wget -O guardian/snapshot `curl -k https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/snapshot`
curl -k --output guardian/config.yaml `curl -k 'https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/config?is_guardian=true'`
curl -k --output theta `curl -k 'https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/binary?os=linux&name=theta'`
curl -k --output thetacli `curl -k 'https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/binary?os=linux&name=thetacli'`
chmod +x theta && chmod +x thetacli
​⚙ 2. Sync your node
cd ~/theta-node
./theta start --config=guardian
Choose a password.
Choosing a Theta password.
Check the status of the sync.
Open a new terminal window with CTRL-SHIFT-T and check your sync status.
./thetacli query status
Sync your node to the tip of the blockchain can take minutes up to an hour depending on the performance of your computer.
​💸 3. Deposit stake to your node
Once your node is done syncing when "syncing": false, run the following to generate your Guardian Node Holder Summary.
./thetacli query guardian
 Sample query guardian output:
{ "Address": "0x5C...", 
"BlsPubkey": "a1...", 
"BlsPop": "az1...", 
"Signature": "83201...", 
"Summary": "0xeb..." }
Copy and paste the Summary data into your wallet's "Deposit Stake" function
​✅ 4. Validate your node is working
If you see the following logs, your node is working.
DEBUG [guardian] Boardcasting guardian vote vote=AggregatedVotes
​✨Congratulations! Your Theta Guardian Node is working to finalize blocks and will earn TFUEL.
Every 10 minutes or 100 blocks, your Guardian node is rewarded TFUEL for it's work done. It may take up to half an hour before you see your first payout.
You can view your TFUEL rewards in your THETA wallet or view them on the block explorer.​