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# Requirements

## Delegation Requirements <a href="#delegation-requirements" id="delegation-requirements"></a>

Any Validator can participate to Pondo to be deleagated part of the protocol's pool. Although, anyone can ban a validator during the rebalancing/update period if:

* The validator has a commission greater than 0.5%
* The validator leaves the committee

A validator needs to have a corresponding reference delegator to participate to the protocol and be considered by the yield oracle.

Alternatively the protocol will fully unbond from a validator permissionlessly during rebalance, or if the validator commission changed of more than 0.1% while the delegator was bonded.