diff --git a/.env.api.example b/.env.api.example
index eaf06982..dcd8ea1d 100644
--- a/.env.api.example
+++ b/.env.api.example
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ API_PORT = "42170" # Port for the API server
 API_HOST = "0.0.0.0" # Host for the API server
 SCORING_KEY = "123" # The scoring key for the validator (must match the scoring key in the .env.validator file)
 SCORE_ORGANICS = True # Whether to score organics
-VALIDATOR_API = "0.0.0.0:8094" # The validator API to forward responses to for scoring
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+VALIDATOR_API = "0.0.0.0:8094" # The validator API to forward responses to for scoring
diff --git a/api_keys.json b/api_keys.json
index 9e26dfee..0967ef42 100644
--- a/api_keys.json
+++ b/api_keys.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{}
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+{}
diff --git a/shared/logging.py b/shared/logging.py
index f2fdbd15..6da5e1de 100644
--- a/shared/logging.py
+++ b/shared/logging.py
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ def log_event(event: BaseEvent):
             reinit_wandb()
         unpacked_event = unpack_events(event)
         unpacked_event = convert_arrays_to_lists(unpacked_event)
+        logger.debug(f"""LOGGING WANDB EVENT: {unpacked_event}""")
         wandb.log(unpacked_event)
 
 
diff --git a/validator_api/gpt_endpoints.py b/validator_api/gpt_endpoints.py
index 34681f0e..3614e865 100644
--- a/validator_api/gpt_endpoints.py
+++ b/validator_api/gpt_endpoints.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+import json
 import random
 
-from fastapi import APIRouter, Request
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, Header, HTTPException, Request
 from loguru import logger
 from starlette.responses import StreamingResponse
 
@@ -9,9 +10,19 @@
 
 router = APIRouter()
 
+# load api keys from api_keys.json
+with open("api_keys.json", "r") as f:
+    _keys = json.load(f)
+
+
+def validate_api_key(api_key: str = Header(...)):
+    if api_key not in _keys:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="Invalid API key")
+    return _keys[api_key]
+
 
 @router.post("/v1/chat/completions")
-async def completions(request: Request):
+async def completions(request: Request, api_key: str = Depends(validate_api_key)):
     """Main endpoint that handles both regular and mixture of miners chat completion."""
     try:
         body = await request.json()