Write Start here and Part 1: Getting in

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Covers journey pages 0.1 to 0.3 and 1 to 4, written for an operator rather than a protocol researcher.

Start here

• 0.1 What Optimum does for validators. Signal gets you blocks and attestations sooner. Accelerate uses that headroom to hold your bid cutoff later. The two are independent.
• 0.2 Choose your path. Signal, Accelerate, or both, and what each involves.
• 0.3 Before you begin. You need:
  • a consensus client you control;
  • inbound TCP 33212 and 33213, and outbound 443;
  • persistent storage for the gateway identity;
  • your validator indices;
  • for Accelerate, your current MEV-Boost config.

Part 1. Getting in

• 1 Creating your account. Sign in with Google or Microsoft SSO. No invite is needed.
• 2 Individual or Entity. Use Console's wording ("How do you take part?"), not "solo staker".
• 3 Registering your organisation. The registration fields and the terms step.
• 4 Region availability. Write this only if the geo-block ships. See the open questions (Open questions blocking journey content #55).

Done when

Every page matches the shipped Console signup flow (components/signup/SignupFlow.tsx) step for step, with current screenshots.

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