# 1. Command Center

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**Early access:** You're on the Tashi Alphanet, a public testing phase. Real $TASHI is not involved, and all features are subject to change or reset.
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## Connect to the Command Center

In your browser with the Solana wallet installed, navigate to <https://depin.tashi.network>

You should see the following page:

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Click **Connect Wallet** to select your browser wallet. \
For example, with Phantom installed, you might see this:

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Click your browser wallet. If you do not see your browser wallet here, contact us for support.

Your browser wallet may pop up a window asking for confirmation:

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Click **Connect** (or "Confirm", "Ok", etc.) to continue.

If successful, you will be taken to the dashboard:

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## Mint $TASHI

The next step is to mint $TASHI tokens to your Solana ccount.&#x20;

These tokens represent your stake in the DePIN network, and are required to operate a worker node.

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In the Beta and full releases of Tashi DePIN, your account will need to have 10 $TASHI staked per node.

For the Alpha release, you are only required to hold that amount of $TASHI in your account.

The dashboard will issue you 100 $TASHI, which should be enough to run ten nodes.

If you wish to operate more nodes than the amount issued to you by the dashboard will allow, \
please contact us directly.
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Click the **Get Tokens** button on the dashboard. This will issue a one-time minting of 100 $TASHI to your wallet. If successful, the dashboard should update to show this.

You should also see 100 $TASHI when you view your wallet. \
This is what that looks like in the Phantom wallet (your wallet may be different):

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If you don't see a Tashi balance, check that your wallet is set to Solana devnet \
(Phantom calls this "Testnet Mode").

Refer to your wallet's documentation for how to set it to the Solana devnet.
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