## Host a node

You can help make Tanzania’s own sovereign internet a reality by hosting a node.

By connecting hardware at your home or office – or anywhere you’d like – you provide Internet capacity for the people around you and earn a new digital currency, TFT.

### How to build a node

Step 1 - Obtain the hardware for a node which can be purchased here

Step 2 - Follow this instruction manual to set up your node

Step 3: Earn TFT (more below)

### How to earn TFT

Farmers earn TFT according to the amount of Internet capacity their Nodes connect to the ThreeFold Grid. The Internet capacity is verified by the ThreeFold Blockchain on an ongoing basis using the “Proof-of-Capacity” algorithm.