A minimal onboarding path reduces drop-off for prospective contributors. Providing a structured checklist improves activation rates.
Core phases: account creation, client download, initial device registration, selecting a first project (e.g. Grass / NodePay), verifying heartbeat, monitoring metrics.
Security hygiene: never paste private wallet keys into remote web forms; keep execution on your controlled machine.
Next steps include enabling additional projects, automating updates, and monitoring resource utilization vs reward yield.