The shortest route from curious to operational
This community guide compresses the operator journey into four ordered stages. Use the official Interfold documentation as the protocol authority; use this site to decide what to learn or do next.
- 0102 · Understand
Why ciphernodes exist
Build the mental model: E3s, committee selection, distributed keys, encrypted computation, and threshold decryption.
Open this guide → - 0203 · Tutorial
Start a node on Sepolia
Install the CLI, create local credentials, validate deployment configuration, and inspect the running process.
Open this guide → - 0304 · Activate
Become an active operator
Separate the operator and bond-owner keys, bond FOLD, register, add tickets, and verify eligibility.
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Do not start with mainnet capital. First rehearse the software workflow on Sepolia, confirm which wallet controls each responsibility, and verify every live economic parameter before signing.
What this site deliberately does not do
It does not duplicate the complete official documentation, replace the deployment manifest, or guarantee that a parameter copied today remains current tomorrow.