Become a Kima validator

The Kima blockchain relies on a network of validator nodes for its security and consensus. KIMA tokens are distributed to validators as an incentive for their participation in the network.

You can read more about both Kima's incentive model and its innovative security architecture in the White Paper

Two areas of Kima's security architecture stand out:

• Threshold signature schemes (TSSs) allow a group of participants (“cosigners”) to securely generate and control the secret signing key for a digital signature scheme, such that a certain threshold (e.g., 7-out-of-10) cosigners must participate in the signing protocol in order to generate a signature.

• To provide transaction privacy in a blockchain using committee-based consensus, each block producer can run their nodes inside an SGX enclave. Using Intel’s attestation feature, every block producer can verify that all the other committee members are running the authorized blockchain client inside an SGX enclave.

Kima does not rely on the security of Intel SGX to maintain its privacy or safeguard its assets. Instead, Kima uses SGX to complement the security of its system. Kima wardens run the threshold signature scheme inside an SGX enclave, thus the TSS key-shares are not directly accessible to the wardens or their system administrators.

For this reason, would-be validators need to ensure that they either have access to a machine that is compliant with the relevant SGX requirements, either by:

• owning the relevant hardware

• running their node on Azure

Read the validator requirements page for more details.

If you have questions about setup, or would prefer to be guided through the process, get in touch here.