Staking and Validating on Kusama and Polkadot

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Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake system works, or if you're interested in staking or validating, this episode is a great place to start. To get more information on staking, validating, and validator setup on Kusama, check out the Kusama network guide at https://guide.kusama.network/. Highlights: 01:43 - What is consensus? 02:48 - Polkadot and Kusama’s block production and finalization algorithms, BABE and GRANDPA 06:35 - Polkadot’s two types of accounts: stash and controller 09:11 - Session keys 15:41 - Key management 20:19 - Understanding nominated proof-of-stake 23:50 - How to nominate 25:30 - Rewards 28:35 - Slashing 36:05 - Validator setup 41:40 - Step-by-step validator process review 44:30 - How to upgrade/maintain 47:40 - Common misconceptions 49:18 - Validator DOs and DON’Ts NOTE: At 8:00, Joe mistakenly mentions that the controller account can be used to vote on governance proposals. Actually, the stash account can set a proxy account to vote on its behalf. It could be the same as the controller but does not have to be.Special Guest: Gautam Dhameja.

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This episode was published on August 29, 2019.

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Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake...

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