Deploy Validator Manager

First you will need to deploy the actual Validator Manager implementation that contains the logic for managing validators.

Building on the image shown in the introduction, now our L1 will have these contracts deployed:

Implementation Contract

The Validator Manager implementation:

Contains all validator management logic
Implements the ACP99Manager standard
Handles P-Chain communication
Can be upgraded without losing state

The ValidatorManager contract requires a separate library contract called ValidatorMessages to be deployed first. This library handles all the message encoding and decoding for communication with the P-Chain.

Why a separate library?

Solidity requires libraries to be deployed independently before they can be linked
The ValidatorManager bytecode contains placeholders that get replaced with the library's deployed address
This allows multiple validator managers to share the same message handling code

What it does:

Packs validator registration messages for the P-Chain
Unpacks responses from the P-Chain
Handles weight updates and conversion messages
Ensures consistent message formatting across all validator operations

The library deployment is a one-time operation - once deployed, multiple validator manager contracts can reference the same library instance.

Deploy the Implementation

Deploy Validator Contracts

Deploy the ValidatorMessages library and ValidatorManager contract to the EVM network.

Deploy Validator Messages Library

This will deploy the ValidatorMessages contract to the EVM network . ValidatorMessages is a library required by the ValidatorManager family of contracts.