Validator Operators Approved: Torva Capital, Puma Node, Lavender.Five Nodes, RentOk, Huginn, BitcoinWiki, Potamus Engagement LLC, Bitcoin Suisse, KYVE Foundation, nodes.garden, Priochain, Empanadilla Labs, Global Settlement, Mariner Exchange, QCP Trading Middle East Limited, Blockchain Association Lab of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Princeton University, Fintag Yazılım Danışmanlık A.Ş, Salt Shaker LLC, Piconbello OU, AlexIT, node101, stakefish, Txtch, DTEAM, Luka Novak s.p., Tsinghua University
The following (29) Validator Applications have passed:
Name of Applying Institution: Torva Capital
URL to website of Applying Institution: kelly@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Privately held proprietary investment holding company investing across traditional markets and blockchain.
Why self-operate: Obsidian Systems will operate and manage the node on their behalf.
Sponsor: Obsidian Systems
How did you hear about us?: Obsidian Systems
How will you contribute?: Build applications
Country of Incorporation: Hong Kong
Name of Applying Institution: Puma Node
URL to website of Applying Institution: pumanode.cc
Short description of Applying Institution: Next-generation blockchain network focused on institutional-grade infrastructure.
Why self-operate: Full control over validator performance, ability to customize infrastructure, independent governance participation.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Crypto conference
How will you contribute?: Leverage institutional relationships, promote adoption, share expertise, governance participation.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Name of Applying Institution: Lavender.Five Nodes
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://lavenderfive.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Infrastructure provider on 60+ networks with public RPC services and monitoring tooling.
Why self-operate: Extensive validator/operator track record since 2020 across Solana, Aptos, Ethereum, Aleo, and more.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Twitter and The Tie
How will you contribute?: Public tooling, security monitoring, open-source docs, potential super validator ops.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Name of Applying Institution: RentOk
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://eazypg.in
Short description of Applying Institution: India’s largest property management software processing $200M/year in rent payments.
Why self-operate: Experience running validators on Cosmos, Polygon, Aether, Celestia.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Referral from Rohan (OpenVector)
How will you contribute?: Build payments app on Canton coin, secure validator ops.
Country of Incorporation: India
Name of Applying Institution: Huginn
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://huginn.tech/
Short description of Applying Institution: Validator and community team active on Monad, Berachain, Cosmos, with Turkish-speaking community support.
Why self-operate: Strong validator ops with Guardbot automation, dedicated infra.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: HoodRun and Node101 validator teams
How will you contribute?: Reliable infra (validators, RPCs, snapshots), community events in Türkiye, education.
Country of Incorporation: Türkiye
Name of Applying Institution: BitcoinWiki
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://bitcoinwiki.org/
Short description of Applying Institution: Community-driven encyclopedia of blockchain since 2014.
Why self-operate: Independence, transparency, and neutrality in node ops.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Researching blockchain ecosystems
How will you contribute?: Publish multilingual Canton content to broaden awareness.
Country of Incorporation: Latvia
Name of Applying Institution: Potamus Engagement LLC
URL to website of Applying Institution: N/A
Short description of Applying Institution: Blockchain consulting multinational, onboarding startups.
Why self-operate: Consultant focus on onboarding new firms into crypto assets.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Friends
How will you contribute?: Consulting, onboarding new projects.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Name of Applying Institution: Bitcoin Suisse
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: Swiss crypto finance services since 2013 with custody, staking, trading.
Why self-operate: Track record with billions in client assets, strong infra and compliance.
Sponsor: Digital Asset
How did you hear about us?: Through Bernhard Elsner and Georg Schneider
How will you contribute?: Integrate Canton into custody solution.
Country of Incorporation: Switzerland
Name of Applying Institution: KYVE Foundation
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.kyve.network/
Short description of Applying Institution: Provides fast and easy tooling for decentralized data validation, immutability, and retrieval across ecosystems.
Why self-operate: Experienced validator on Celestia, Story, Walrus, Xion, Lava and more. Wants direct control so rewards can fund public good infrastructure for Canton builders and data scientists.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Meria and Redstone
How will you contribute?: Public good infra for builders and data teams, introduce relevant developers, expand the community with targeted integrations and use cases.
Country of Incorporation: Switzerland
Additional contacts: fabian@..., max.hoeres@..., troy@..., christopher@...
Name of Applying Institution: nodes.garden
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://nodes.garden/
Short description of Applying Institution: One click multichain node as a service platform.
Why self-operate: Manages thousands of nodes across dozens of chains with many years of operational experience.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Talked with James Webb
How will you contribute?: List Canton on the platform so thousands of users can easily run Canton nodes.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Additional contacts: petr@...
Name of Applying Institution: Priochain
URL to website of Applying Institution: priochain.cc
Short description of Applying Institution: Crypto platform building secure user friendly self custody wallets with privacy and cross chain access.
Why self-operate: Ensure high uptime and transparent operation with aligned incentives rather than relying on third parties.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Node Fortress
How will you contribute?: Reliable secure validator cluster with monitoring and redundancy, wallet centric tools for adoption, governance participation, community education.
Country of Incorporation: Australia
Name of Applying Institution: Empanadilla Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://empanadilla.org/
Short description of Applying Institution: Small team of infra engineers and market structure builders with HSM backed keys and full observability.
Why self-operate: Commit to high reliability service levels, timely upgrades, transparent incidents, and active governance.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Tradeweb
How will you contribute?: Geo redundant validators with monitoring and backups, open source Helm profiles and dashboards, small privacy focused apps, governance support and onboarding.
Country of Incorporation: Singapore
Name of Applying Institution: Global Settlement
URL to website of Applying Institution: globalsettlement.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Regulated infra provider for banks, governments, and asset managers to issue and settle tokenized real world assets with ISO 20022 and native compliance.
Why self-operate: Embed programmable compliance and sovereign risk controls for institutional clients while aligning with global governance.
Sponsor: eric@...
How did you hear about us?: Following Digital Asset since 2017, liquidity protocol launch in LATAM and Africa
How will you contribute?: Bring tokenized assets from a pipeline over 25 billion, provide Canton native compliance tooling and SDKs to accelerate institutional adoption.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Additional contacts: ryan@..., benny@..., steve@...
Name of Applying Institution: Mariner Exchange, Inc.
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://marinerexchange.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: Online marketplace for boaters with commerce and service directory across the marine industry.
Why self-operate: Tech forward strategy to diversify into blockchain and crypto with engineering capacity to execute.
Sponsor: Ryan Trinkle
How did you hear about us?: Referral
How will you contribute?: Explore tokenization of boat transactions and marine finance, develop responsible crypto treasury strategy, support decentralization and transparency.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Name of Applying Institution: QCP Trading Middle East Limited
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.qcpgroup.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: Licensed broker dealer in Abu Dhabi Global Markets as the regulated regional entity of QCP Group.
Why self-operate: Group is an existing validator and plans to operate through the regulated entity.
Sponsor: QCP Group is an existing validator
How did you hear about us?: Eric and Yuval
How will you contribute?: Extend existing validator operations through a regulated presence in the region.
Country of Incorporation: Singapore
Name of Applying Institution: Blockchain Association Lab of Chinese Academy of Sciences
URL to website of Applying Institution: N A
Short description of Applying Institution: Research driven lab focused on distributed systems, cryptography, blockchain infra, and digital asset innovation.
Why self-operate: Mix of research strength and hands on operations with secure high availability nodes and full automation and monitoring.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Discord
How will you contribute?: Introduce developers and support ecosystem growth through research and applications.
Country of Incorporation: China
Name of Applying Institution: Princeton University
URL to website of Applying Institution: hsz0403.github.io
Short description of Applying Institution: Princeton ECE Blockchain research lab.
Why self-operate: Need direct data access and controlled experimentation for AI research on on chain behavior and security.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: From blockchain events
How will you contribute?: Build applications and join hackathons with academic research outputs.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Additional emails to add to Slack: suozhi.huang@...
Name of Applying Institution: Fintag Yazılım Danışmanlık A Ş
URL to website of Applying Institution: gateway.goldtagapp.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Digital Asset developer serving companies managing precious metal assets for two million users.
Why self-operate: Provide services to enterprises that require secure operations at scale.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: RWA platforms
How will you contribute?: Build applications on Canton.
Country of Incorporation: Turkey
Name of Applying Institution: Salt Shaker LLC
URL to website of Applying Institution: saltshaker.vc
Short description of Applying Institution: Hospitality consulting firm.
Why self-operate: Desire for control, transparency, and responsiveness with custom monitoring and security to support Canton architecture and governance.
Sponsor: Ryan Trinkle and Obsidian
How did you hear about us?: Ryan Trinkle and Obsidian
How will you contribute?: Food tech application work that leverages privacy, security, and interoperability for supply chains and quality tracking.
Country of Incorporation: United States
Additional contacts: harry@...
Name of Applying Institution: Piconbello OU
URL to website of Applying Institution: piconbello.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Infra and product focused company optimizing hardware and software to the limit.
Why self-operate: Operating infra since 2017 with strong optimization, tooling, and product experience that delivers top performance and high return on investment.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Privacy technology circles across D V T, M P C, Z K, F H E topics
How will you contribute?: Reinvest all revenue into research and development, bring developers and projects, and share impartial best fit recommendations.
Country of Incorporation: Estonia
Other emails for Slack: Currently none
Name of Applying Institution: AlexIT
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://github.com/AlexITProf
Short description of Applying Institution: Team with more than fifteen years in IT and blockchain infra operating validators and providing reliable infra with strong monitoring.
Why self-operate: Direct control improves security, efficiency, and accountability for quick response and dependable service.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: nodes dot guru Canton testnets page
How will you contribute?: Stable validator operations, RPC and archive nodes, best practice sharing, onboarding support, feedback on performance and tooling, and future services to expand adoption.
Country of Incorporation: Netherlands
Name of Applying Institution: node101
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://node101.io
Short description of Applying Institution: Product partner and validator service provider with team across Paris to Istanbul focused on real world solutions with decentralized tech and AI.
Why self-operate: Validator operations are core expertise with more than twenty networks secured and strong infra practices and community contributions.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Industry discussions on interoperability and privacy preserving finance
How will you contribute?: Reliable validators, open source tooling, community events and education in Türkiye and Europe, R and D for modular integrations and privacy applications.
Country of Incorporation: Türkiye
Additional contacts: mete@..., yakup@..., yunus@...
Name of Applying Institution: stakefish
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://stake.fish/
Short description of Applying Institution: Professional proof of stake operator since 2018 supporting more than twenty networks with more than three billion in assets and sister company f2pool.
Why self-operate: Proven track record, scale and reliability, rigorous security and compliance, and operational excellence across clients and regions.
Sponsor: marchlam@...
How did you hear about us?: Through a colleague
How will you contribute?: Secure reliable validators with client and regional diversity, support go to market initiatives and institutional onboarding.
Country of Incorporation: British Virgin Islands
Additional contacts: liangda@..., chengp@..., wangze@..., wilson@...
Name of Applying Institution: Txtch
URL to website of Applying Institution: txtch.xyz
Short description of Applying Institution: Builds tokenized collateral systems for financial and energy stability in underserved markets.
Why self-operate: Maintain high availability infra and expand Canton reach into real world asset tokenization while aligning with the ecosystem.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Internet
How will you contribute?: Validate transactions, host apps around tokenized collateral, maintain uptime, bring new participants and practical use cases.
Country of Incorporation: Singapore
Name of Applying Institution: DTEAM
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://dteam.tech/
Short description of Applying Institution: Web3 infra provider and validator with more than twenty five million total value locked and global nodes including India Africa and Australia.
Why self-operate: Maintain full control over node security, performance, and custom configuration to ensure high uptime and reliability.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Official channels, community forums, industry news
How will you contribute?: Reliable validators, open source tools for developers, connect projects to the Foundation, public contribution history available.
Country of Incorporation: Seychelles
Additional contacts: eugene@...
Name of Applying Institution: Luka Novak s p
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://mammoth.guru/
Short description of Applying Institution: Slovenian company focused on programming and blockchain infra since 2015 with validators and DA nodes.
Why self-operate: Years of experience with miners, archival nodes, provers and sequencers, now focusing on Ethereum and Celestia.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: Telegram infra groups
How will you contribute?: Introduce projects, support many dApps on Canton, and potentially build an app after deeper exploration.
Country of Incorporation: Slovenia
Additional contacts: luka.novak@...
Name of Applying Institution: Tsinghua University Blockchain Association
URL to website of Applying Institution: N A
Short description of Applying Institution: Leading student organization for blockchain research, education, and innovation at Tsinghua University.
Why self-operate: Deep technical expertise, academic infra access, and responsible governance with a preference for direct control over security and standards.
Sponsor: N A
How did you hear about us?: From friend
How will you contribute?: Developer education, demo apps, research on interoperability, workshops and hackathons, partnerships in China.
Country of Incorporation: China
Name of Applying Institution: HandlPay by Verso Network AG
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.handlpay.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Turns social usernames into universal payment addresses to receive stablecoins.
Why self-operate: Independent validation for decentralization, control over deployments and testing, higher security and accountability.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: In collaboration with Tenkai GmbH
How will you contribute?: Operate a validator and introduce real world social commerce payment flows and user connections to Canton apps.
Country of Incorporation: Switzerland
Additional contacts: N A
Name of Applying Institution: Global Futures and Options Ltd GFO X
URL to website of Applying Institution: http://www.gfo-x.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Regulated institutional exchange.
Why self-operate: Already runs infra to support a regulated exchange.
Sponsor: Digital Asset number one
How did you hear about us?: Barry Gausden
How will you contribute?: Build and deploy on chain collateral management for the exchange to create utility for tokenized assets and stablecoins on Canton.
Country of Incorporation: United Kingdom
Additional contacts: barry.gausden@...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.
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