# Joining the Validator Community We invite those who share our vision for a decentralized, efficient, and user-centric blockchain network to express their interest in becoming a validator. By joining the Orange Network's validator community, you will not only contribute to the network's resilience and growth but also shape the future of blockchain technology. Together, we can build a network that stands as a testament to innovation, collaboration, and shared success in the digital age. The determining factors for choosing validators, include but are not limited to the validators ability to govern and provide stability to the network. They should be contributing to the network and not just running validator nodes for rewards alone: Blockchain Infrastructure experience and specifically experience running Validators. Deploying, creating, and building on Orange. Validators may contribute analytics tools, applications, and other valuable 3rd party applications that better the Orange network. Promoters and advocates for the Orange network. The validators should highlight the Orange network to an established audience and in addition bring in new participants to the network. In the preliminary stages the validators will be chosen by existing and high performing validators and in time this selection process will become more open. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.orangeweb3.com/orange/validators-and-nodes/joining-the-validator-community.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.