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---
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slug: /
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id: home
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title: Home
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sidebar_label: Home
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pagination_label: Solana Validator Documentation Home
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description: "Solana is a high performance network that is utilized for a range
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of use cases, \
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including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming."
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---
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# Solana Validator Documentation
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Solana is a blockchain built for mass adoption. It's a high performance network
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that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments,
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and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine, and is open,
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interoperable and decentralized.
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## Command Line Interface and Tool Suite
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To get started using the Solana Command Line (CLI) tools:
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- [Install the Solana CLI Tool Suite](./cli/install.md) - Quickly get setup
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locally with the CLI, optionally build from source
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- [Introduction to the CLI conventions](./cli/intro.md) - Understand the common
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conventions used within the CLI tool suite
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- [Choose a cluster](./cli/examples/choose-a-cluster.md) - Select a Solana
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network cluster to connect (e.g. `devnet`, `testnet`, `mainnet-beta`)
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- [Create a wallet](./cli/wallets/index.md) - Create a command line wallet for
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use within the CLI and beyond
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## Understanding the Architecture
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Get to know the underlying architecture of how the proof-of-stake blockchain
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works:
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- [Clusters](./clusters/index.md) - a collection of validators that work
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together for consensus
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- [Validators](./validator/anatomy.md) - the individual nodes that are the
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backbone of the network
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- [Runtime](./runtime/programs.md) - the native programs that are core to the
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validator and the blockchain
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## Running a Validator
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Explore what it takes to operate a Solana validator and help secure the network.
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- [Validator vs RPC node](./operations/validator-or-rpc-node.md) - Understand
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the important differences between voting and non-voting validators on the
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network
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- [System requirements](./operations/requirements.md) - Recommended hardware
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requirements and expected SOL needed to operate a validator
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- [Quick start guide](./operations/setup-a-validator.md) - Setup a validator and
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get connected to a cluster for the first time
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## Learn more
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import HomeCtaLinks from "../components/HomeCtaLinks";
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<HomeCtaLinks />
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