Validator Operators Approved: BroSoft sp. z o.o., VNCapital, EquiTek LLC, Smart Bitcoin Labs ltd., Hunan Shunzhijie Network Technology Co., Ltd., BlockPI Network, ChangSha MerkleBuild co., Tradite, Sychonix, Information Systems LTD, Climatetrade, Nguyen | MeKongLabs, Lmd_Opezzi
The following (13) Validator Applications have passed:
Name of Applying Institution: BroSoft sp. z o.o.
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://brosoft.xyz
Short description of Applying Institution:
Software house, building Web3 and running validators.
Why self-operate:
Last year we were operating the most stable RPC for Casper blockchain, with load-balancing and geo-routing. I believe we can provide the best uptime.
How did you hear about us?: From Gevulot guys.
Country of Incorporation: Poland
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: VNCapital
URL to website of Applying Institution: Vncapital.io
Short description of Applying Institution:
small crypto consulting and infrastructure company based in Spain. We help individuals understand digital assets and provide dedicated physical servers for clients running nodes on various testnets and mainnets, and also host our own nodes.
Why self-operate:
I believe I qualify to operate validators in the Canton Network because I have hands-on experience managing blockchain infrastructure and hosting nodes across various testnets and mainnets. I prefer to operate validators myself rather than rely on third-party operators because it allows me to directly manage infrastructure, respond to technical issues quickly, and maintain the highest standards of reliability and decentralization.
How did you hear about us?: on podcast.
Country of Incorporation: Spain
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: EquiTek LLC
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://equitek.ai/
Short description of Applying Institution:
EquiTek is a leading software firm specializing in functional software development and engineering leadership services.
Why self-operate:
Obsidian will operate and manage the node on our behalf
How did you hear about us?: Ryan Trinkle and Obsidian Systems
Country of Incorporation: United States
Sponsor: Obsidian Systems
Name of Applying Institution: Smart Bitcoin Labs ltd.
URL to website of Applying Institution: N/A
Short description of Applying Institution:
We are a blockchain technology company with over five years of experience in node operation and smart contract development. Our team members, hailing from 1475ipfs, a leading Filecoin miner, have successfully managed node operations valued at over $200 million USD. We've conducted in-depth research and development within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Notably, we participated in the initial mining phase of Ordinals BRC20, acquiring 1% of the total SATS supply at an average cost of $0.25 USD per piece, significantly lower than the network's average of $0.50-$1.50 USD. Additionally, we've actively participated in the issuance of various Bitcoin Ordinals NFT assets, gaining valuable experience in sending messages on the unique Bitcoin network both faster and at a lower cost. Our expertise also extends to various mainstream public chains, including on-chain data analysis and node security.
Why self-operate:
We are confident in our ability to serve as validators for the Canton Network, and we strongly prefer to operate independently rather than relying on existing operators. This stance is rooted in several key advantages:
1. Extensive Node Operation Experience and Technical Prowess
We bring over five years of hands-on experience in node operation, encompassing every aspect from setup and maintenance to optimization. Our team members previously worked with 1475ipfs, a leading Filecoin miner, where they helped manage nodes valued at over $200 million USD. This demonstrates our proven ability to handle large-scale, high-value network infrastructure, coupled with a deep understanding of maintaining network stability and security, and mature solutions for these challenges.
2. Deep Blockchain Technical Understanding and Multi-Chain Experience
Our in-depth technical exploration of the Bitcoin ecosystem is a testament to our capabilities. We successfully participated in the initial mining phase of Ordinals BRC20, acquiring a significant amount of SATS at a cost far below the market average. This clearly highlights our profound understanding of blockchain's underlying mechanisms, consensus algorithms, and network communication protocols.
Furthermore, our active involvement in the issuance of various Bitcoin Ordinals NFT assets has provided us with invaluable experience in sending messages efficiently and cost-effectively within unique network environments. This experience will directly translate into our ability to optimize data transmission and reduce operational costs within the Canton Network.
We've also conducted extensive research on mainstream public chains, developing unique insights and successful strategies in on-chain data analysis and node security. This means we can not only ensure the smooth operation of Canton Network nodes but also provide proactive risk alerts and enhanced security measures.
3. Strategic Considerations and Advantages of Self-Operation
Our decision to self-operate Canton Network validators is based on several key considerations:
Maximized Control and Security: Self-operation grants us complete control over every aspect of the validator node, thereby maximizing node security and mitigating potential risks. We can implement customized configurations and optimizations tailored to the specific needs of the Canton Network, ensuring optimal performance and security.
Cost-Effectiveness and Efficiency Optimization: With our extensive experience and technical expertise, we are confident in our ability to manage validator nodes at a lower cost and with greater efficiency. Our past success in acquiring assets at a low cost within the Bitcoin ecosystem is strong evidence of our ability to optimize operational expenses.
Direct Contribution to the Network Ecosystem: As Canton Network validators, we aim to directly participate in network governance and maintenance, contributing to the network's decentralization and long-term growth. Self-operation allows us to be more closely integrated with the network ecosystem, providing more timely and professional feedback and support.
Rapid Response and Problem Solving: A self-operating team can respond much more quickly to any issues or challenges that arise within the network. We have an experienced technical team capable of swiftly identifying problems and providing solutions, minimizing network downtime or performance degradation.
In summary, our extensive node operation experience, deep blockchain technical expertise, and strategic commitment to self-operation make us highly qualified to be validators for the Canton Network. We are confident in our ability to make a significant contribution to the network's stability, security, and efficient operation.
How did you hear about us?: We learned about this opportunity through GSF
Country of Incorporation: HongKong
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: Hunan Shunzhijie Network Technology Co., Ltd.
URL to website of Applying Institution: chuan.yuanlaoban.cn
Short description of Applying Institution:
We are a technology company based in China, specializing in blockchain infrastructure, cloud services, and network security. Our team has extensive experience in operating validator nodes and maintaining high-availability systems. We are committed to supporting decentralized networks with secure and reliable infrastructure.
Why self-operate:
We believe we are qualified to operate Validators in the Canton Network for the following reasons:
Our team at Hunan Shunzhijie Network Technology Co., Ltd. has extensive experience in operating blockchain infrastructure, including validator and full node deployment, monitoring, and incident response. We are proficient in using Docker Compose and Kubernetes for scalable, secure node deployment, and have implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Additionally, our team has hands-on experience ensuring high availability and low-latency network performance, with 24/7 operational support in place.
We have a deep understanding of secure key management practices and adhere to strict operational security standards, including access control, encrypted storage, and incident response protocols. We also follow relevant compliance policies based on Chinese cybersecurity regulations.
Why we prefer to operate our own Validator:
Operating our own Validator allows us to maintain full control over performance, security, and reliability. This enables us to:
Ensure rapid response to any operational issues
Customize monitoring and infrastructure according to the requirements of the Canton Network
Experiment with performance optimizations and contribute to network resilience
Deepen our technical understanding and participation in the Canton ecosystem
Rather than outsourcing validator operations to a third-party, we believe that direct involvement aligns better with our long-term goal of becoming a core infrastructure contributor to the network.
How did you hear about us?: I was introduced to the Canton Network through another company in the blockchain infrastructure space.
Country of Incorporation: china
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: BlockPI Network
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://blockpi.io/
Short description of Applying Institution:
BlockPI is the biggest infra provider in APAC. With 6+ years of infra building experience, BlockPI offers one-stop high performance infra services including but not limited to RPC service, validator service, relayer service, account abstraction services across 50+ networks. Our products received grants from Ethereum Foundation, OP Foundation, Near Foundation, Klaytn Foundation and Taiko DAO. BlockPI has deep partnership with a number of public blockchains (Berachain, Blast, Merlin Chain, Taiko, ZetaChain, Near, etc) as their official infra partner, and also closely works with over 300+ well-known projects and developer communities. With millions of public users and over 40,000 registered users, BlockPI stably processes 70B+ monthly requests.
Why self-operate:
Our team is very experienced on running validators, please check the following notion page to check all the blockchain networks we contributed to. https://www.notion.so/blockpi/BlockPI-Ecosystem-Contributions-d0a69a5a3313486095ca0c9eac8be1ec
How did you hear about us?: Twitter
Country of Incorporation: HongKong
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: ChangSha MerkleBuild co.
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://merklebuild.com/
Short description of Applying Institution:
Merkle Build. Focusing on the future potential and development of Web3 and AI technologies.
Why self-operate:
We are building a BTC liquidity and settlement layer (AMM+RFQ+Vault) in Canton, with extremely high requirements for low latency and high availability. We have the capability and motivation to operate our own validators. Our production environment features ≥8 vCPUs/16–32GB/1–2TB NVMe, ≥1Gbps dedicated lines, multi-region active-active, Sentinel Layer, and hourly backups. We use MPC/HSM+Vault for key management, zero-trust access, and full-chain auditing. We use Prometheus/Grafana/Loki for monitoring, with over 100 alerts, 24/7 availability, and an SLO ≥99.95%. We can perform in-house network and system-level tuning and integrate with business risk control within minutes to ensure fair and stable trading. We also recycle validation rewards back into market-making incentives, enhancing Canton's depth and resilience. We also retain third-party nodes for disaster recovery, ensuring both diversity and reliability.
How did you hear about us?: BitSafe
Country of Incorporation: USA
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: Tradite
URL to website of Applying Institution: N/A
Short description of Applying Institution:
Holding Company
Why self-operate:
Experienced in running infrastructure
How did you hear about us?: Friends
Country of Incorporation: Germany
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: Sychonix
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://sychonix.com
Short description of Applying Institution:
Sychonix is a trusted blockchain infrastructure provider specializing in secure and reliable validator node operations. With over two years of hands-on experience across 30+ decentralized networks, we maintain high uptime, strict security practices, and contribute actively to the growth, stability, and decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem.
Why self-operate:
We are an experienced validator operator supporting multiple networks, and we are continuously improving our infrastructure and practices. Operating our own validator on the Canton Network would allow us to directly uphold reliability and security standards, while remaining fully accountable for our performance. We value the opportunity to contribute and grow alongside the network.
How did you hear about us?: Through Twitter
Country of Incorporation: Indonesia
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: Information Systems LTD
URL to website of Applying Institution: N/A
Short description of Applying Institution:
A group of crypto investors with experience in active trading strategies.
Why self-operate:
Obsidian will operate and manage the node on our behalf
How did you hear about us?: Through Obsidian Systems
Country of Incorporation: Seychelles
Sponsor: Obsidian Systems
Name of Applying Institution: Climatetrade
URL to website of Applying Institution: www.climatetrade.com
Short description of Applying Institution:
Climatetrade is a global climate-tech company that helps organizations achieve their sustainability goals by providing access to verified carbon credits and renewable energy certificates (such as I-RECs and Guarantees of Origin). Through its digital platform and API integrations, Climatetrade enables businesses to calculate, reduce, offset and certify their carbon footprint, their customers and providers in a transparent and traceable way. With a strong commitment to environmental integrity, Climatetrade connects companies directly with certified climate projects around the world—ranging from reforestation and renewable energy to clean cookstoves and biodiversity conservation. This marketplace approach ensures cost-efficiency and full traceability.
Why self-operate:
Climatetrade has developed an extensive repository of environmental assets from globally verified registries, which we already distribute via digital channels to corporates and, increasingly, financial institutions. Our tokenization infrastructure allows these assets to be represented on-chain in a secure and compliant way, unlocking new financial products and enabling traceability throughout the lifecycle of each asset.
Our goal in operating a Validator is not just to participate technically, but to serve as the bridge between environmental markets and the financial institutions that the Canton Network connects. As recently highlighted by JPMorgan’s integration with carbon credit registries to facilitate tokenization via blockchain platforms, it is clear that financial institutions are moving toward on-chain ESG solutions. Climatetrade is already positioned to provide this functionality and Canton provides the ideal environment to scale this securely and collaboratively.
By running our own Validator, we can ensure data integrity, privacy, and performance for the sustainability use case while preserving the trust financial institutions require. Operating directly, rather than through an intermediary, also allows us to rapidly adapt to the evolving needs of our institutional clients and to build advanced integrations, such as automated retirement tracking, Scope 3 reporting, and ESG portfolio tools, all within the Canton ecosystem.
As experience, we have already operated as node validator for Alastria in Spain and IDBs one in Latam also.
In summary, Climatetrade is uniquely qualified to serve as a Validator not only due to our technical capabilities and tokenization infrastructure, but because we bring a live, scalable, and regulated sustainability use case to the network, enabling banks to bridge directly into carbon markets through a trusted provider.
How did you hear about us?: MPCH
Country of Incorporation: SPAIN
Sponsor: MPCH - matt.mareane@...
Name of Applying Institution: Nguyen | MeKongLabs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://mekonglabs.tech/
Short description of Applying Institution:
We are MekongLabs, a seasoned team specializing in validator operations, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps for Web3 networks. We support a wide range of modular, privacy, and data availability protocols through high-performance and secure validator infrastructure.
Why self-operate:
As a professional validator team with deep experience across Cosmos SDK-based chains, AVS, and EVM-compatible networks, MekongLabs believes we are uniquely qualified to operate a validator in the Canton Network. We offer not just technical competency, but also a proven track record of long-term commitment, ecosystem contribution, and infrastructure excellence.
We prefer to run our own validator rather than using third-party operators for the following reasons:
1. Expertise & Track Record
• We’ve successfully participated in 30+ networks across testnet and mainnet environments, including Namada, Sunrise, Union, Story Protocol, Pell, Allora, Airchains, Chainbase, Eigenlayer, and more.
• Our team includes system admins, DevOps, backend/frontend engineers with 10+ years of experience.
2. Infrastructure & Reliability
• We operate a robust stack with bare-metal servers and cloud hybrid deployments, offering high availability (HA), full monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager), and disaster recovery setups.
• Our validator tooling includes full RPC/API endpoints, GRPC/JSON-RPC access, snapshot service, and automation for updates and failover.
3. Early Participation & Community Trust
• We’ve participated from the genesis phase in multiple networks.
• We’ve earned foundation delegation and core team trust in several projects.
• Our community contributions extend to guides, UI testing, ecosystem integrations (e.g., Namada UI with Laconic).
4. Security, Autonomy, and Ecosystem Involvement
• Running our own validator ensures we maintain control over keys, monitoring, and uptime—key for both security and responsibility.
• We actively join governance, bug bounties, and community support, not just passive infrastructure.
5. Vision-Aligned Participation
We don’t just want to “run nodes.” We want to contribute to the success, decentralization, and resilience of Canton by applying our learnings and proven validator playbooks, ensuring the network’s long-term health.
How did you hear about us?: I discovered the Canton Network through your official X (Twitter) account post : https://x.com/CantonNetwork/status/1952371890053365905
Country of Incorporation: Vietnam
Sponsor: GSF
Name of Applying Institution: Lmd_Opezzi
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://x.com/lamidiope48
Short description of Applying Institution:
A small group of BlockChain elites with 12 members in total containing 5 members from 2013 crypto class & others. We are experienced node runners/validators running node ranging from DeFi focused blockchains(Zero-Gravity,, ZenChain & co) to gaming blockchains(GR1D network, B3) and would be glad to
Why self-operate:
I believe Canton is/will be a super blockchain as is the product(projects) that will come from it(super). as an experienced validator it would be best to experience this first hand, support closely and contribute greatly as a validator..
How did you hear about us?: Farcaater
Country of Incorporation: London
Sponsor: GSF
Congratulations on having your validator approved! We're very excited to have you spin up your validator node and join us online. 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.
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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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