# Launch Steps ## Friday We launch late, don't tell anyone. ## Saturday [x] Take down Pioneer, QN and RPC. Martin prepares poor validator page on Notion and tells BDH BDH posts message on Discord and validtor lounge ``` @everyone We are very pleased to announce that Joystream mainnet has officially launched! Check it out: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss://rpc.joystream.org:9944#/explorer 1. At this time we are only sharing this news with our internal community and candidate validators, a full announcement will be made on Monday, with more information. 2. At this time, unless you are a validator, just sit tight, you can't do much until validators have started signalling their intent, which will take a moment. We are now in the `Frozen` stage of the launch process, which is described here [https://joystream.gitbook.io/testnet-workspace/launch-process]. 3. We will be transitioning to `Thawn` stage by end of day Monday, at which point the validator set becomes open, but generalised functionality will still be restricted. While everyone can nominate validators already at this time, it advisable to wait until Monday to see a longer lineup of possible providers, and of course, do your own research! 4. If you are a validator, then - here you can find the binary and chainspec: https://github.com/Joystream/joystream/releases/tag/v12.1000.0 - if you have no $JOY to satisfy minimum requirement of 41667, then go here: https://www.notion.so/joystream/Launch-Validators-e0e5f5755cf14104864e3644fee4acfa - here is the validator guide: https://joystream.gitbook.io/testnet-workspace/system/validation ``` We announce _internall_ that we have launched. We tell everyone that we will go to Thawn on Monday evening. ## Sunday Nothing. ## Monday - We announce publicly that we have launched. - possibly bump validator count - evening: we go to Thawn ## Tuesday - possibly bump validator count - evning: we go to Supervised (runtime upgrade) if we have enough nodes that new functionality is OK to unlock, with stable block times, our validators being reduced from 9->3 for example. Queue looks solid, with decent staking. Mokhtar would initate an multisig transaction for runtime ugprade here.