>Quickstart: From Zero to Earning

The whole path in six steps. Plan on an afternoon, most of it waiting on a transaction to confirm and the daemon to settle.

1. Acquire $PRLX. You need at least 50,000 $PRLX to register one node, plus a little ETH for gas. Buy $PRLX on a DEX that supports fee-on-transfer tokens (a Uniswap V2-style AMM). The token contract is 0x93FF39f65cC1D21067939961993ADF3f36BBF893. Remember the 5 % buy/sell tax: to end up with 50,000 after the buy tax, buy a little more.

2. Install the Node CLI. On the machine that will run the node (Linux x86_64), run the install script. It downloads the signed binary, verifies its SHA-256 against the published release manifest, and installs it.

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   $ curl -fsSL https://parallelix.io/install.sh | sh
   $ parallelix-node version
   

3. Initialise the node key. Generate the node's liveness keypair and write the config. This key is low-value and signs only liveness and results. It is never your staking wallet's key.

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   $ parallelix-node init --wallet 0xYourStakingWallet --region eu-west
   ✓ node keypair generated at ~/.parallelix/keys
   ✓ config written to ~/.parallelix/config.toml
   

   Note the nodeKeyHash the CLI prints. You will paste it into the Console at registration.

4. Open the Console and connect your wallet. Go to app.parallelix.io and connect the wallet that holds your $PRLX. The Console is the on-chain half of being an operator: it signs stake, claim, and unstake. It never touches the node key.

5. Register the node. In the Console, choose your hardware tier and stake amount, then sign one registerNode(stakeAmount, hardwareTier, nodeKeyHash) call. The transaction locks your stake and mints a nodeId. There is no allowlist and no approval step.

6. Start the daemon. Back on the machine, start the daemon: it attaches to the on-chain node and begins serving.

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   $ parallelix-node start --node-id 4217 --gpu
   

   The node enters READY, sends liveness heartbeats, and begins serving ParalleliX AI inference requests dispatched by the coordinator. Uptime accrues, reward weight builds, and you claim whenever you like in the Console. That is the whole loop.