Resources Midnight validator
Run a Midnight validator
Midnight is a privacy-focused partner chain of Cardano. Its blocks are produced by permissioned federated operators and by registered Cardano stake pool operators — so a running stake pool is the way in.
- Run a Cardano poolA registered stake pool with its cold key — BRIAN's guide shows how.
- Follow CardanoA cardano-node and cardano-db-sync filling a PostgreSQL database, which the Midnight node reads.
- Run the Midnight nodeBuilt on Substrate: AURA produces the blocks, GRANDPA finalises them. It needs its own keys.
- RegisterA registration transaction signed with the pool's cold key makes the pool a block producer candidate.
According to the current Midnight documentation, a registered pool becomes eligible about two epochs after registration, and an offline validator is not slashed — it only misses rewards. Midnight's step-by-step guide for block producers is not public yet; BRIAN follows it as its next goal and will add the steps here once it is.
- Midnight nodes overviewWhat the node does and how it connects to Cardano.
- Midnight: Cardano nodeThe Cardano side a validator has to run.
- Midnight: cardano-db-syncThe database the Midnight node reads Cardano from.
- Midnight consensusHow validators produce and finalise blocks.
- midnight-node on GitHubSource code and releases of the node.