Validator Operator Approved: DeFi Capital
The following Validator Application has passed for DeFi Capital
Congratulations on having your validator approved! We're very excited to have you spin up your validator node and join MainNet. Please find the next steps below. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
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- Set up your own node using the public docs.
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- We currently have a waitlist for deploying to MainNet.
Slack
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High-Level Steps:
- Spin up your node on DevNet
- On Slack, share the fixed IP you'd like whitelisted on DevNet for your Validator node
- Spin up your node for DevNet
- Request a DevNet onboarding secret - via API call (curl)
- Spin up your node on Mainnet
- On Slack, share your fixed IP you'd like whitelisted on MainNet for your Validator node
- Spin up your node on MainNet
- Reach out directly on Slack DM to request a MainNet onboarding secret
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From: <amartin@...>
Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Subject: Validator Operator Approved: DeFi Capital
To: <amartin@...>Validator Operator Submission Details
Name of Applying Institution:
DeFi CapitalURL to website of Applying Institution:
https://de-fi.capital/Applying Institution email:
operations@..., keith@..., brendan@...Short description of Applying Institution :
Defi Capital is a prop trading and investment entity specializing in layer 1 blockchain infrastructure, DeFi protocols, structured products, and blockchain gaming. We combine strategic investments with active liquidity provisioning to bootstrap portfolio companies and provide tokenomics design expertise to optimize protocol economics. Our portfolio includes early investments in Deribit, Algorand, dYdX, WOO Network, Avalanche, ThetaNuts Finance, Serum, Axie Infinity, and other market-leading protocols.Are there any other emails you wanted added to the slack channel?:
keith@..., brendan@...Please provide information about why you believe you qualify to operate Validators in the Canton Network and why you would prefer to do this yourself instead of using one of the existing operators. :
Broad experience running nodes such as Serum, Algorand etc and worked closely with relevant foundations and tech teamsContact at an existing Node Operator who will sponsor your onboarding process:
Eric from DAG and Dexter (of Thetanuts Finance)How did you hear about us?:
Eric from DAG, Dexter (Thetanuts Finance), and Darius (QCP)How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem? :
Liquidity provisioning for featured apps where applicable such as Thetanuts Finance (WIP), working closely with existing market maker partners like QCP, defi/trading product contributorCountry of Incorporation :
British Virgin IslandsBest,
Dr. Amanda L. Martin
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