1. 1

   Add the masternode here

   On your dashboard press Add a masternode and choose Kerrigan. Nothing is charged yet - this only tells us which coin you are hosting.

2. 2

   Pay for the first month

   Two ways, and they end in the same place.

   payments Pay for this one order

   Choose how many months and confirm. You are given an address, an exact amount and a memo - send all three exactly as shown, from your own wallet. The amount is fixed at the moment you confirm, so the rate moving afterwards does not change what you owe. The memo is what matches your payment to your order; one sent without it has to be sorted out by hand. A payment that falls short, or arrives after the order has run out, goes to your balance instead, and so does anything paid over the amount - from there it pays for hosting like any top-up.

   account_balance_wallet Pay from your balance

   Press Top up on your balance card and send any amount you like, whenever you like. Once it has arrived, paying for a masternode is a single press with nothing to send and nothing to wait for.

   lightbulbRunning more than one masternode? Top up first. One transaction covers all of them, every payment after it is instant, and the same balance renews them month after month without you doing anything.

3. 3

   Wait for the payment

   Paid from your balance, there is nothing to wait for: it is done the moment you press the button.

   Paid by transaction, it needs 20 confirmations on the Kerrigan network. You can watch them count up in the payment window, or close it and come back to your dashboard later - we keep watching either way.

   On Kerrigan it is usually much sooner: once the network has ChainLocked the payment's block, a couple of confirmations are enough - a few minutes in all.

   Once it is paid, the masternode is given the address it will run on and moves to Needs setup.

4. 4

   Do the wallet side

   This part happens in your own wallet, and it is the only part with real work in it. The Kerrigan team document it themselves, and their guide is the one that stays right when their wallet changes:

   menu_bookOfficial Kerrigan masternode guideopen_in_new

   infoSkip everything about renting, installing or configuring a VPS. That server is ours and it is already running - you only need the parts that happen in your wallet.

   swap_horizMoving a Kerrigan masternode here from another host? Skip this step: it keeps its collateral and its registration. In the next one, if you have its operator key, paste it in as usual and we point the registration here ourselves. If the old host kept the key, choose Make a new one: we make a new key, and one command in the wallet holding the owner key points the registration at it. Until we have finished, the masternode is off the network, and it then rejoins the payment queue at the back.

   What you are doing there is sending 10,000 KRGN to yourself to lock as collateral, and then registering the masternode on the network - the ProRegTx. Register a regular masternode: BroodNodes, on 40,000 KRGN, are not hosted here yet. You will come away with the two things this site asks for: the operator BLS secret key and the ProRegTx hash.

   Wait until the registration transaction has at least 1 confirmation before you carry on - until the network has accepted it, there is nothing here for us to check your values against.

5. 5

   Finish the setup here

   Back on your dashboard the masternode now offers Finish setup. Press it, paste in what your wallet gave you, and save. We check the collateral against the Kerrigan network before accepting it, so if something was mistyped you are told which value it was rather than left guessing.

6. 6

   It starts

   Within a minute or two the masternode is in the configuration and running, and your dashboard shows it as Running. There is nothing to install and nothing to keep switched on at your end.

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