Staking Pool Reqs

Validator staking pool requirements

There are minimum staking requirements a validator must satisfy to become active and to stay in the active validator set.

Stake requirements

The Sui network is rolling out SIP-39, which will significantly lower the barrier to entry for validators. Instead of requiring a minimum amount of SUI tokens, validators will need a minimum amount of voting power.

When fully rolled out, SIP-39 will mean the following validator requirements:

• A validator candidate must accrue at least 3 voting power before they can request to join the validator set.
• If an active validator's stake falls below 2 voting power, they have seven epochs of grace period to gain back the stake before being removed from the validator set.
• If an active validator's stake falls below 1 voting power, they are removed from the validator set at the end of the current epoch boundary. Sui uses 24-hour epochs.

For more information on voting power, see Understanding the voting power formula.

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