# Validators

A validator is a virtual entity that lives on the Turple protocol and participates in ads approving and monitoring.

Validators earns Turple tokens for participating in ads monitoring and each validator is required to lock a minimum of 10,500 Turple tokens to join the network to filter out bad actors.

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