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LarryTrustee.AILTRST Chain — Validator Program
Validator Onboarding · Phase 1

Become a Validator on LTRST Chain

LTRST Chain is a sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer-1, merged into the official cosmos/chain-registry as ltrstchain, purpose-built to host legal, financial, and medical AI-generated projects and tools with protocol-level privacy. We are recruiting validators to grow the active set from 1 to 10 as our first Phase 1 decentralization milestone.

Chain Identity (Verified Live)

Every parameter below was queried from the live chain on the day this page was published. None are forward-looking statements; they are operating values right now.

Chain IDltrst-chain-1
Chain Registry nameltrstchain
NetworkMainnet — live since 2026-04-11
Native denomultrst (1 LTRST = 1,000,000 ultrst)
Total supply221,000,000 LTRST (fixed, hard-capped at genesis)
Inflation0% — no mint module emission. Validators earn from transaction fees and the pre-funded staking-rewards pool.
Bech32 prefixltrst · ltrstvaloper · ltrstvalcons
Daemonltrstchaind
Node home$HOME/.ltrstchain
SLIP-0044118 (Cosmos standard)
Block time~2.0 seconds (sampled live)
Cosmos SDKv0.50
ConsensusCometBFT v0.38.17
IBC-gov8.5.2
CosmWasmDisabled (Phase 1)

Staking & Governance Parameters

Max active validators100
Min commission rate5.0% (chain-enforced floor)
Unbonding period14 days (1,209,600 s)
Max unbonding entries7
Voting period48 hours (172,800 s)
Gov proposal min deposit10,000 LTRST
Min gas price (low / avg / high)0.01 / 0.025 / 0.04 ultrst
Pre-funded staking-rewards pool55,250,000 LTRST (25% of supply, distributed via x/distribution proportionally to bonded stake)
Why fixed-supply validation matters. Most Cosmos chains pay validators primarily through token inflation (newly minted supply diluting existing holders). LTRST Chain pays validators from a pre-funded, hard-capped 55.25 M LTRST staking-rewards pool plus transaction fees. Holders are not diluted; validators are still paid; the math is simply on a fixed pie.

Technical Requirements

Recommended Hardware

Specs below mirror the configuration we run for our own genesis validator and represent a comfortable margin for current network load. Validators may run heavier setups at their discretion.

CPU4 cores (Intel Cascadelake or comparable, 2.5 GHz+)
RAM8 GB
Storage200 GB SSD (NVMe preferred)
Network1 Gbps, public IPv4, low-latency to a tier-1 carrier
OSUbuntu 22.04 LTS or Debian 12 (other Linux distros at validator's risk)
Go toolchainGo 1.25+

Network Endpoints

RPC (Tendermint)https://chain.larrytrustee.ai/trpc/
REST (Cosmos)https://chain.larrytrustee.ai/tapi/
Genesis filehttps://chain.larrytrustee.ai/trpc/genesis
Persistent seed948731cf3500d931757ec5cc312496b9a5e3719b@45.32.222.33:26656
Block explorerdex.larrytrustee.ai/explorer

Build & Sync

# 1. Clone the chain source (Apache 2.0)
git clone https://github.com/Larrytrustee/ltrst-chain-l1.git
cd ltrst-chain-l1
make build       # produces build/ltrstchaind

# 2. Initialize the node, fetch genesis, set the persistent seed, and sync
./build/ltrstchaind init <your-moniker> --chain-id ltrst-chain-1
curl -sL https://chain.larrytrustee.ai/trpc/genesis | jq '.result.genesis' \
  > ~/.ltrstchain/config/genesis.json
sed -i 's|^seeds *=.*|seeds = "948731cf3500d931757ec5cc312496b9a5e3719b@45.32.222.33:26656"|' \
  ~/.ltrstchain/config/config.toml
./build/ltrstchaind start

Or use the idempotent bootstrap script that does all of the above for Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 in one step:

sudo ./join-node.sh --moniker my-validator-name

The script produces a synced full node, configures systemd for auto-restart, and prints the exact create-validator command to run when you are ready to bond. Source on GitHub: join-node.sh.

Becoming an Active Validator

After your node is fully synced, fund a validator wallet with enough LTRST for self-delegation, then submit a MsgCreateValidator transaction:

./build/ltrstchaind tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=<self-delegation>ultrst \
  --pubkey=$(./build/ltrstchaind tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker=<your-moniker> \
  --chain-id=ltrst-chain-1 \
  --commission-rate=<0.05–1.0> \
  --commission-max-rate=1.0 \
  --commission-max-change-rate=0.05 \
  --min-self-delegation=1 \
  --from=<your-key-name> \
  --gas=auto --gas-adjustment=1.3 --fees=5000ultrst \
  --node=http://127.0.0.1:26657

Once the transaction lands, your validator appears in the active set and starts signing blocks. Commission rate must be at least 5% (the chain-enforced floor). You may set up to 100% but must declare a commission-max-change-rate at validator creation; it cannot be raised later.

Validator Categories & Targets

Phase 1 target is 10 active validators. The slot allocation:

Slot 1 — Genesis

Currently filled by LTRST Mainnet Validator 01 (operator ltrstvaloper14jypsve…) — the bootstrap node operated by LarryTrustee.AI Inc.

Slots 2–4 — Professional Services

Established Cosmos validator businesses (Forbole, Lavender.Five, Polkachu, Cosmostation, etc.). Onboarded by direct outreach with a validator agreement and a delegation from the LarryTrustee.AI ecosystem allocation.

Slots 5–7 — Independent Operators

Mid-tier independent validators that operate nodes on multiple Cosmos chains for ecosystem support. Recruited through the gentx-style application process below.

Slots 8–10 — Community Validators

LTRST community members and early supporters who want to operate a validator. Open application, with a hardware-and-uptime probationary review.

Apply to Validate

Submit the form below and we will respond within 5 business days with next steps. The form is end-to-end encrypted in transit; we do not share validator applicant information with third parties.

Public-facing name; used in the validator description and on the chain explorer.

Chain-enforced floor is 5%. Most professional services charge 5–10%.

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