Checking your Validator Status
Check the Polkadot.js Apps explore to see if you completed all the steps and have become a validator.
There, navigate to
Developer -> Chain state -> session -> validators(). Press + on the right..png?alt=media&token=11afc311-8b26-44dc-b1bb-9a724cb5d83d)
If you can find your address in this list - you are a validator!