Validator Operator Approved: Stakecraft
The following Validator Application has passed for Stakecraft
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.
Deploy your validator on DevNet/TestNet:
- Set up your own node using the public docs.
- Alternatively, ask one of our partners to spin up your validator node today. Reach out via email to any of them for more information.
- 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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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: <amartin@...>
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Subject: Validator Operator Approved: Vasily Istomin
To: <amartin@...>Validator Operator Submission Details
Name of Applying Institution:
Vasily Istomin StakeCraft
URL to website of Applying Institution:
https://stakecraft.com
Applying Institution email:
support@...
Short description of Applying Institution :
The StakeCraft validator team, brings over 10+ years of system and network administration expertise, including crypto. Recognized in the crypto community for responsibility, we've have official prtnerships and received grants from foundations like Polygon, Q Blockchain, DCFoundation and Agoric Foundation, Astar, etc. We actively participate in consensus mechanisms and governance, and we contribute from Testnets to early-stage projects. We always try to add value to the projects where we run nodes. We use high-grade bare-metal servers from Tier-1 data centers (Terraswitch, Cherry Servers, OVH, etc.). We prioritize server health and security through vigilant monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and custom systems. Security measures include firewalls, VPN access, SSH key policies, Ledger devices, and HashiCorp Vault. Horcrux safeguards against double signing, emphasizing our commitment to validation excellence. Our company, part of the Verified Staking Providers program, holds the highest AAA rating for operational performance, contributing, etc. At the moment we run nodes for such projects as Solana, The Graph, Polygon, Monad, Aztec, Supra, Near, Band Chain, DoubleZero and others.
Are there any other emails you wanted added to the slack channel?:
ka4ok1331@...
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. :
We have extensive experience running secure, high-performance validators across major networks (Solana, Polygon, Near, etc.) and hold a AAA rating in the Verified Staking Providers program. Operating our own validator ensures full control over infrastructure, security, and reliability — which we prefer over relying on third parties.
Name and email of contact at one of the Super Validators who will sponsor your onboarding process. Please find the list of Super Validators here. If you do not have a contact at a Super Validator, please say "N/A":
N/A
How did you hear about us?:
Our own research
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem? :
We can provide additional services such as: snapshots, endpoints, explorer, etc.
Country of Incorporation :
USA
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Dr. Amanda L. Martin
814-359-6544
The Linux Foundation
Director of Program Management
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