Onboarding

The Forge testnet is open to outside operators. This page shows the manual wallet-cli path that works against the live testnet today. A guided operator-onboarding-ui wizard is forthcoming.

1-click web wizard (forthcoming)

For Forge, operator-onboarding-ui will walk new operators through:

1. GPU detection — auto-detects local NVIDIA / AMD GPUs via lspci + nvidia-smi.
2. TEE attestation — produces a combined NVIDIA CC + Intel TDX (or AMD SEV-SNP) quote via attestation-service. (Forge issues mock quotes.)
3. Wallet generation — creates an account via wallet-cli; keystore encrypted with passphrase.
4. Stake bind — submits OperatorStake::register with the attestation hash.
5. Daemon install — runs the operator worker under systemd with a watchdog.

Until the wizard ships, follow the manual path below.

Manual path

The manual path uses the live Forge endpoints. Set the RPC URL once so every command picks it up:

export OROGEN_RPC_URL=wss://forge-rpc.orogen.network

# 1. Create an account (sr25519 hotkey + EVM-bridge key from one mnemonic).
wallet-cli new my-operator
wallet-cli address my-operator        # prints the ss58 + eth addresses

# 2. Fund it from the public faucet lane (testnet OROG, low-cap).
curl -X POST https://faucet.orogen.network/drip-public \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"recipient":"<the ss58 address from step 1>"}'
wallet-cli balance my-operator        # confirm the drip landed

# 3. Get an attestation report (Forge issues mock quotes).
curl -X POST "https://attestation-service.orogen.network/v1/attest" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"operator_id":"my-operator"}'
# -> returns an attestation report; note its H256 hash.

# 4. Register as an operator. --stake is in plancks (atomic units);
#    MinStake on Forge is 1_000_000_000_000 = 1 OROG.
wallet-cli register-operator my-operator \
  --stake 1000000000000 \
  --attestation-hash 0x<attestation-report-hash> \
  --rpc-url wss://forge-rpc.orogen.network

# 5. Submit an on-chain liveness heartbeat for the current epoch.
wallet-cli heartbeat-test my-operator --submit --epoch <current-epoch>

Notes:

• register-operator takes the keystore account name as a positional argument, then --stake <plancks> and --attestation-hash 0x... The attestation hash defaults to the zero hash for bring-up, so you can register before attestation is wired.
• The on-chain heartbeat command is heartbeat-test <name> --submit --epoch <n>. Without --submit it prints a signed gateway heartbeat payload instead of submitting on-chain. The runtime requires epoch >= last_heartbeat_epoch and advance by at most MaxHeartbeatEpochAdvance (1 on Forge), so pass the current epoch.
• The default --rpc-url is ws://127.0.0.1:9944 (a local node). Point it at Forge with --rpc-url wss://forge-rpc.orogen.network or by exporting OROGEN_RPC_URL.
• See the wallet-cli README for the full subcommand reference.

Worker daemon

The operator worker images are forthcoming and will be published at ghcr.io/orogen-network/infer-worker-vllm (plus -sglang, -trtllm, -llamacpp variants). The production heartbeat loop lives in worker-control-plane; until the images publish, run the worker from source per its repo README and submit heartbeats manually with wallet-cli heartbeat-test.

Tier requirements

See Tiers + hardware. Quick sketch:

Tier	Floor stake
dc-premium	$5K equivalent OROG
dc-standard	$2K equivalent OROG
cloud-rented	$1K equivalent OROG
prosumer	$500 equivalent OROG
edge	$100 equivalent OROG
embed-only	$50 equivalent OROG

Stake is OROG with USD-pegged ratchet via governance every 30 days. On Forge, MinStake is 1_000_000_000_000 plancks (1 OROG) regardless of tier; the USD-pegged floors above apply to mainnet.