Join the Tezos baking community and help secure the network while earning rewards.
Tezos Baking Portal is your comprehensive resource from setup to optimization, governance to rewards.
What is Baking?
Baking is the process of validating transactions and adding new blocks to the Tezos blockchain. Bakers are rewarded with tez tokens for their contribution to the network.
Rewards
Bakers earn rewards for creating and attesting blocks. Rewards are distributed to delegators and stakers.
Requirements
To become a baker, you need at least 6,000 tez and a reliable server setup with proper security measures to host a Tezos node.
Stakers
Bakers can opt to receive staked tez from stakers, which increase the baker's staking rewards without transferring ownership of the tez. This process is part of the Tezos Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism.
- Bare metal installation
- Octez services
- Octez signer
- Consensus & companion keys
- Hardware security modules (HSM)
- Cloud HSM/KMS with Signatory
- Unikey signers
- Minimum 16GB RAM (swap included), 3 CPU cores
- 100GB SSD storage
- Low-latency reliable internet connection
- Install Octez software suite
- Configure node and baker
- Run a DAL node
- Grafazos monitoring setup
- Prometheus & Grafana dashboards
- Alert configuration
- Performance optimization
- Shadownnet setup
- Obtaining testnet tez
- Testing protocol upgrades
- Playing with the protocol
Governance Overview
Tezos has an on-chain governance mechanism that allows the protocol to upgrade itself through a formal proposal process. The Tezos Agora community platform is where governance discussions, proposals, and voting take place.
Proposal Period
Delegates propose and upvote protocol amendment proposals. If a quorum is met, the top-voted proposal moves to the next period.
Exploration & Cooldown
Delegates vote on whether to consider the proposal (Exploration period). If passed, a Cooldown period allows the community to test and prepare infrastructure.
Promotion & Adoption
Delegates make a final vote on whether to apply the proposal (Promotion period). If passed, the Adoption period allows adaptation before automatic activation.
Useful Tools for Baking
Essential tools and resources to help you manage your baking operations effectively.
Documentation & Tutorials
Comprehensive guides and tutorials to help you become a successful baker.
Documentation
Comprehensive guides from Tezos developers and users
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