To prevent any centralized bottlenecks, the system ensures that every single position is fully open and permissionless. Whether your interest lies in requesting, reporting, validating, disputing, selecting, or relaying, you will never need special authorization from the team to participate. If even one of these functions required official approval, it would introduce a critical choke point into the network. We warmly invite you to simulate and explore your desired position before getting started by visiting https://operator.tellor.io/