Become a Guardian

Manas Network

Manas network supports open ecosystem of Gurdians to join & leave at their will without negatively impacting the network. Being a Guardian on the Manas means contributing to building a DA with customized privacy & security. A Guardian can also share their resources for performing compute or verification on the network helping grow the data, compute & AI ecosystem. The participants only need to follow the rules laid out in the runtime so that they do not face any negative economic impact.

System Requirements

Standard Guardian

Resource	Minimum	Recommended
RAM	8 GB	16 GB
Processor	8 cores	16 cores
Disk	200 GB	1 TiB NVME
Bandwidth	1 Gbps	5 Gbps
GPU	-	-
Extras	Virtualization	Virtualization, CPU TEE (Future Updates)

Compute

Verifier

Supported Platforms

The Palliora node client supports containerized environment for running a node. The container images are currently available for the following platforms -

• Linux/amd64 - Ubuntu 24.04

• Mac/arm64

Pre-Requisites

• Docker

• Nvidia Drivers (only for Nvidia GPUs on Linux)

• Ollama (along with pre-installed models)

• NodeJs, npm

• Palliora-cli

Install dependencies

Docker Install docker on MacOS - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/docker Install docker on Linux - https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Nvidia Drivers

sudo apt install nvidia-headless-535-server nvidia-utils-535-server -y

Ollama Download and install ollama from here - https://ollama.com/download

NodeJs Install nodejs environment - https://nodejs.org/en/download

NOTE: Prefer install using nvm

# Download and install nvm:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash

# in lieu of restarting the shell
\. "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"

# Download and install Node.js:
nvm install 22

# Verify the Node.js version:
node -v # Should print "v22.21.1".

# Verify npm version:
npm -v # Should print "10.9.4".

Palliora-cli

npm i -g @palliora.org/cli

Setup a Guardian Node

The pre-requisites for an active Guardian participant requires them to do the following:

1. Node client docker setup

2. Ollama setup

3. Stake tokens on Manas

4. Provide node preferences to activate the Guardian services

2MB

palliora-manas.json

Open

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docker-compose.yml

Open

Docker-compose config

1. Save the attached palliora-manas.json.

2. Save the attached docker-compose.yml .

3. Open a terminal where you have saved the downloaded files and run the following commands

Command

1. Store the docker login auth token in the Environment by executing

   export AUTH_TOKEN=<auth-token-from-palliora>

2. Perform Docker login by executing

   echo $AUTH_TOKEN | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 434856701645.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

3. Run the docker compose with following command:

   docker compose pull && docker compose up --force-recreate -d

Ollama setup

1. Pull relevant model (e.g. `llama3.1:latest`)

   ollama pull llama3.1:latest

2. Start ollama server

   ollama serve

Create an account

To create a fresh account, run the palliora-cli with following command

palliora-cli account-create

Get test tokens

Use the palliora-cli to receive test tokens on your new account. The following command funds your account with 1000 PALI tokens.

palliora-cli fund --amount 1005000

Bond Tokens

The next step is bonding PALI. A bonded account, holds your staked tokens (PALI) that back your guardian node. Bonding your PALI means locking it for a period, during which it cannot be transferred or spent but is used to secure your guardian's role in the network. The Minimum Bond Requirement is 1,000 PALI tokens.

The following sections will guide you through bonding PALI for your guardian.

Bonding PALI

Using the palliora-cli use the stake-new command to bond your tokens as follows:

# fresh stake of minimum guardian stake with default reward destination
palliora-cli stake-new --amount=1000000

(Optional) Node operators can increase/decrease their existing stake using this command.

palliora-cli stake-add --amount=10
palliora-cli stake-reduce --amount=10

The amount flag signifies how much of PALI tokens will be staked. This value must be equal or greater than the minimum guardian stake. The parameters accepts floating values upto 18 decimal places.

The reward-destination gives the node operators an option to provide an alternate address to receive the stake rewards into. By default the account that is setup will receive the staking rewards but any valid address can be set as the reward destination using this option.

Guard

NOTE: Wait for the chain to sync before performing the following action.

Using the palliora-cli use the join-guardian command to participate as guardian (NOTE: Joining as a standard guardian with trusted compute services):

PALLIORA_WS=ws://127.0.0.1:9944 palliora-cli join-guardian --standard --compute="trusted"