NON-CUSTODIAL PROTOCOL PARTICIPATION // ILLUSTRATIVE NETWORK PARAMETERS
Three Cryptographic Participation Profiles With Bounded Slashing.
All yield and epoch issuance figures are illustrative protocol simulations—not financial advice or guaranteed returns. Zero custody is ever taken by Helios Foundation.
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PROFILE 01 // NON-CUSTODIAL DELEGATOR
Liquid & Native Staking
No Min Bond
Illustrative 6.8%–8.4% Base Consensus Rate
Delegate HLS from qualified custody or hardware wallets to DVT-protected validators while retaining 100% cold-vault withdrawal key control.
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PROFILE 02 // BARE-METAL OPERATOR
Consensus + AVS Validator
50,000 HLS
Eligible for 250K HLS Foundation Grant
Operate AMD EPYC bare-metal consensus nodes and opt into isolated-slashing AVS restaking quorums with smoothed MEV and commission rebates.
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PROFILE 03 // VERIFIABLE PROVER
ZK-GPU Compute Subnet
8x H100 Node
Dual HLS Epoch + USDC Compute Fees
Contribute NVLink H100/B200 clusters to execute Plonky3-verified AI inference and rollup proving workloads with deterministic on-chain settlement.
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NON-CUSTODIAL SECURITY
Does this website request wallet private keys, seed phrases, or live mainnet signatures?
Never. Helios Protocol's web portal and interactive staking calculator are 100% informational and non-custodial—zero wallet popups, token approvals, or private keys are ever requested here. All validator bonding and delegation transactions execute directly via audited CLI binaries and hardware HSMs.
ECONOMIC DISCLOSURE
Are calculator APY and validator reward figures guaranteed financial returns?
No. All staking APY, AVS restaking yield, and GPU compute revenue outputs in our simulator are deterministic client-side mathematical illustrations based on user-selected network assumptions—never a promise of return, solicitation, or investment advice.
VALIDATOR GRANTS
How do operators qualify for the Helios Foundation Delegation Grant Program?
Institutional and independent bare-metal operators demonstrating >=99.9% historical testnet attestation uptime, geographic ASN diversity outside congested cloud regions, and EIP-3076 remote-signer protection may apply for up to 250,000 HLS in non-custodial Foundation stake delegation.
HARDWARE SPECS
What are the baseline bare-metal hardware specifications for a Mainnet Validator?
Consensus validators require a 32-core AMD EPYC 9354 (or equivalent), 256 GB ECC DDR5 RAM, dual 4 TB enterprise NVMe RAID-1 storage, and symmetric 10 Gbps unmetered fiber. ZK-Compute subnet operators add 4x–8x NVIDIA H100/B200 GPUs.
SLASHING GOVERNANCE
How are delegators protected from buggy third-party AVS slashing events?
Every AVS vault enforces an immutable per-epoch slashing cap (0.5% to 2.0% of allocated tranche) plus a 7-day deterministic cryptographic fault-proof verification window, ensuring external middleware bugs cannot wipe out underlying L1 principal.
AUDITS & BOUNTIES
Which security firms audited Helios Protocol's consensus and restaking contracts?
Core consensus, BLS signature aggregation, and dual-quorum restaking vaults completed independent security reviews with Trail of Bits, Spearbit, and Zellic, backed by a $2.5M Immunefi critical-severity bug bounty.
HELIOS PROTOCOL
Modular L1 consensus, shared-security AVS restaking, and ZK-verified decentralized GPU compute network. Non-custodial marketing interface — zero wallet private keys or live RPC signing requested.
PROTOCOL & NODES
Modular L1 & AVS Architecture
Institutional Validator Clusters
Staking Tiers & Slashing Caps
Yield & Hardware Simulator
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