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If you are a new user, you can learn more about the network and how to stake your SOL by reading our Solana Stake Guide. If you are interested in starting a validator, checkout our guide on How to Become a Solana Validator. And finally, if you are not so sure you want to start your own validator but want to be exposed to the potential upside of being a validator, buy a Cogent Cog on Tensor. You can learn how the profit share will work by reading our Cogent Cog Medium Article.

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Frequently Asked Questions

: Staking your SOL with a validator currently comes with 0 risk. As of now, the worst possibile outcome you can have is the validator becomes delinquent and no longer provides returns.

In the future the network will implement slashing as a way to penalize validators who are acting against the interest of the network. To hedge against that risk in the future it is a good idea to spread your stake amongst trusted validators and stake pools.
: Normaly to unstake you must go through a cooldown period which takes 1 epoch (2-3 days) to regain access to your SOL. Thankfully Marinade.Finance offers a way to deposit stake accounts directly in return giving you mSOL. From there you can trade the mSOL imediately for SOL.
: Server Security: Cogent Crypto cares deeply about security. Our mainnet servers are hosted in enterprise grade data centers with tight physical access controls, power back ups, 24/7 monitoring, and alerting. OS access is restricted to SSH keys only, password based log ins are fully disabled.

Key Security: Validators must operate with three important accounts/keypairs. The Validator Identy keypair which signs all transactions, the Voting account which stake accounts are delegated to, and finally the authorized withdrawl keypair which enables SOL to be moved to and from the validator. The first two keys are required many times a second and must remain on the Validator server. These Keys are backed up in a secure enclave and encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption. The third keypair, Authorized Withdrawl Keypair, is stored in a hardware wallet such that the private key has never been connected and will never be connected to the interne
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