Validator Operators Approved: Crypto Native Finance, Jabre Capital Partners, Blockscape Finance AG, w3.labs Consensus GmbH, Maroon Labs, Cheers Paytech Pte. Ltd., Argentum Peak, CryptoBtcBuyer, NODEJUMPER, Hodl Tech, FreshOk, Rho Labs, Bronbro, Automata Labs, Atlas Cooper, Munshot Technologies, Otoclick App, CaviarNine Limited, ChatNotes, Minder
The following (20) Validator Applications have passed:
Name of Applying Institution: Crypto Native Finance
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.amberdata.io/crypto-natives
Short description of Applying Institution: At Amberdata, we work with the best minds in the blockchain and crypto world to translate raw, disjointed cryptoeconomic data into high-fidelity, comprehensive, and actionable information.
Why self-operate: At Amberdata, we work with the best minds in the blockchain and crypto world to translate raw, disjointed cryptoeconomic data into high-fidelity, comprehensive, and actionable information.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Friends
How will you contribute?: build apps
Country of Incorporation: USA
Name of Applying Institution: Jabre Capital Partners
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.jabcap.com
Short description of Applying Institution: Jabre Capital Partners is a Geneva-based independent wealth and asset management firm founded in 2006. Since 2016, we have been active investors in the digital asset space, deploying capital across funds, protocols, and companies driving innovation in the crypto ecosystem. Our platform combines traditional asset management expertise with a forward-looking approach to blockchain technologies, enabling us to participate in and support the growth of leading projects and networks.
Why self-operate: We are an investor in D2X, a company in the Canton ecosystem, through one of our funds. As part of our broader digital asset strategy, we are committed to deepening our involvement in the Canton ecosystem. Operating validators is a natural extension of how we support the networks in which we invest. To achieve this, Jabre Capital will partner with our portfolio company, Firstset, a specialist in validator operations across many leading blockchains. Firstset brings technical expertise and operational reliability, while we provide institutional investment experience and a long-term commitment to ecosystem growth. Together, we view Canton as the next step in our strategy: everything we do in crypto infrastructure at Jabre Capital, we execute through Firstset. This partnership ensures we can contribute to Canton securely, effectively, and with full alignment as validator operators.
Sponsor: Simon Letort, simon.letort@...
How did you hear about us?: D2X
How will you contribute?: We will connect relevant projects with the Foundation, evaluate fundraising opportunities in the ecosystem and explore how we can leverage Canton for our own needs.
Country of Incorporation: Switzerland
Additional emails: bernat@..., long@...
Name of Applying Institution: Blockscape Finance AG
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://blockscape.network/
Short description of Applying Institution: We are an enterprise-grade node operator on Ethereum, managing 7,000+ Ethereum validators and over $900M in AUM. Other than Ethereum, we support other ecosystems like EigenLayer, Symbiotic, Cosmos, Babylon, Aztec and Monad. We also operate on behalf of clients which we service as a infrastructure provider for all kinds of nodes.
Why self-operate: I strongly believe we have the technical expertise and the experience to run a highly-performant node in the Canton Network. We are consistently in the Top 5% of all Ethereum nodes when it comes to the Effectiveness Rating and would like to bring this level of operation to the Canton ecosystem. In regards to other operators, we value doing the technical part ourselves. We are taking pride in putting emphasis on high security standards and operational efficiency. By doing this, we can ensure that the hardware is running in the best possible manner in order to contribute to a vibrant network
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Finoa
How will you contribute?: recommending Canton to clients who are interested, participating in governance and ecosystem discussions, build tooling
Country of Incorporation: Switzerland
Additional emails: michael.soliga@..., anastasiia.martynenko@...
Name of Applying Institution: w3.labs Consensus GmbH
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://w3labs.xyz
Short description of Applying Institution: Bare-metal node operator from Germany, focusing on institutional clients. Operating in mainnet on Ethereum, Solana, and Celestia.
Why self-operate: We are very much aligned in working towards further onboarding TradFi onto decentralized systems. Given we collaborate with multiple family offices and banks, we would like to further strengthen our exposure to enabling technologies, such as canton. Operating in different mainnets since >3 years, we are not completely new to the game and our infrastructure ranks top 10 in the global ethereum validator leaderboard (of rated.network). We are currently working towards an ISO 27001 certification.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: From our network of other validators, Finoa to be precise.
How will you contribute?: Most likely is that one of our partners in TradFi will represent prospects for foundation projects.
Country of Incorporation: GermanyName of Applying Institution: Maroon Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://maroonlabs.info
Short description of Applying Institution: Maroon Labs is an app developement company that makes fintech and blockchain related consumer apps for a global audience. The apps built by Maroon Labs have been used by over 1M users over the last 3 years.
Why self-operate: Maroon labs have been a validator and node operator in multiple mainnet and testnet projects (including Lido, Polygon & Celastia collaborations). Our team has experience running secure, highly available distributed systems, with a proven track record in maintaining node infrastructure for blockchain and enterprise-grade fintech applications for the mobile ecosystem. We prefer to run our own validators instead of relying on existing operators because it ensures direct accountability, independence, and alignment.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Validator community channels
How will you contribute?: We are building Canton native lending protocols on the Canton network starting with an undercollatoralized lending protocol for the assets issued on the Canton Network. We will also bring in other mobile first app development companies we know who can deploy on Canton network for fintech related applications.
Country of Incorporation: UAEName of Applying Institution: Cheers Paytech Pte. Ltd.
URL to website of Applying Institution: www.cheerspaytech.xyz
Short description of Applying Institution: Cheers Paytech is a financial technology company that enables small and medium-sized businesses to accept, send, and manage stablecoin payments with ease.
Why self-operate: Cheers Paytech empowers small and medium-sized businesses to seamlessly accept and use stablecoins for payments, payroll, and cross-border transactions.We plan to leverage the Canton Network for secure, compliant, and scalable stablecoin settlements. We would like to operate our own validator node in order to:
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maximize reliability and innovation
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Ensure direct oversight of stablecoin transaction flows to guarantee stability and trust for our merchants.
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Independent validation that strengthens decentralization while ensuring resilience across the network.
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Faster iteration and controlled testing of new features such as merchant invoicing and POS integrations.
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Contribution to ecosystem growth, helping the network scale responsibly while aligning with real-world merchant needs.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: In collaboration with Tenkai Gmbh.
How will you contribute?: Cheers Paytech will contribute to the Canton ecosystem by bringing real-world SMB use cases to stablecoin payments, from invoicing to cross-border settlements. By operating a validator and actively testing payment flows, we strengthen network security, decentralization, and performance.
Country of Incorporation: Singapore
Additional emails: N/A
Name of Applying Institution: Argentum Peak
URL to website of Applying Institution: N/A
Short description of Applying Institution: Family office for the co founders of hedge fund Silver Point Capital
Why self-operate: Spoke to Yuval and explained that we
Sponsor: Five North
How did you hear about us?: Through Yuval / the Canton foundation
How will you contribute?: We have a vast network in both the credit / hedge fund universe as well as the crypto universe through several employees at our family office. We have been involved in the crypto space since 2017 and helped several prominent funds today actually set up their fund structure. But, I would think most of how we can help is our network in the hedge fund space. One of Silver Point’s cofounders (Robert O’Shea) was one of the first people to spur activity in the secondary market for leverage loans and we believe that one of the best use cases / areas of focus for Canton may actually be the settlement and transfer of corporate loans as the agency model today is archaic. But we also believe that we can make some key introductions in the high yield / distressed / derivative space as many of these more illiquid products cost so much money to settle and take way to long. It is in the best interest of these funds that are paying +1 million dollars a year to settle these transactions to see canton succeed and we believe we can be a part of making that happen.
Country of Incorporation: N/AName of Applying Institution: CryptoBtcBuyer
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://cryptobtcbuyer.pro/
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a team of blockchain validators, engineers, and contributors who have been active since 2022. Today we validate more than ten mainnets and participate in multiple testnets, building both technical infrastructure and community resources around them. Our setup is based on distributed, decentralized infrastructure with layered monitoring systems, which allows us to deliver consistently high uptime and network reliability. Our team combines diverse expertise: two DevOps engineers, one software developer, and one UX/UI designer. This mix lets us cover the full spectrum of validator operations, from infrastructure security to user-facing design.
Why self-operate: Over the past two years we have proven our ability to run stable validators in mainnet environments, while at the same time helping bootstrap and stabilize new testnets.We prefer to operate our own validator rather than rely on existing providers because independence allows us to uphold strict standards of uptime, security, and responsiveness. It also ensures Canton gains another technically capable, autonomous operator in its validator set — strengthening both resilience and decentralization.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Friends from validator's community
How will you contribute?:-
Design and Product Expertise: Leverage our skills in UX/UI design, product development, and web engineering to audit existing products, improve interfaces, and deliver accessible solutions for the ecosystem.
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Community Engagement: Support projects with branding, websites, social media assets, and educational materials. Provide feedback, design audits, and technical assistance that help teams move from early prototypes to polished, production-ready products.
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Tools and Automation: Extend our track record of building Telegram bots, monitoring tools, and validator dashboards to serve Canton’s specific needs.
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Infrastructure and Support: Maintain RPC/API endpoints, network snapshots, and dashboards tailored for Canton. Provide technical guidance for onboarding new validators.
Examples of our project-specific contributions include:
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RPC/API endpoints and snapshot — https://cryptobtcbuyer.gitbook.io/namada
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Installation and monitoring guides — https://github.com/cryptobtcbuyer/Testnet_guides/blob/main/OKP4/README.md
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Telegram bots — https://t.me/namada_wallet_bot, https://t.me/haqq_wallet_bot
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Network dashboards
Country of Incorporation: Thailand
Additional emails: N/A
Name of Applying Institution: NODEJUMPER
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://nodejumper.io/
Short description of Applying Institution: NODEJUMPER is a trusted Proof-of-Stake validator and infrastructure provider, actively contributing to the blockchain ecosystem since early 2022. We run secure, self-managed infrastructure with 24/7 monitoring and high availability standards. Our team currently supports services for more than 20 networks. We’re a team of professional software engineers focused on building practical tools and managed services that strengthen decentralized networks and improve operator experience.
Why self-operate: We believe NODEJUMPER is well positioned to serve as a Canton validator thanks to our technical expertise, operational maturity, and independent approach. Since 2022, we have been running validators across multiple networks with a spotless record of no slashing and consistently high uptime. Our infrastructure is built for resilience, with automated monitoring, incident response, and a strong security-first mindset. Beyond validation, we contribute open-source tools, onboarding guides, and community resources that help lower barriers for new participants. By operating fully on self-managed infrastructure, we retain complete control over performance and security, ensuring Canton benefits from both reliability and genuine decentralization.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Blockchain conference
How will you contribute?: Our commitment goes beyond simply running a validator node — we aim to actively contribute to Canton’s growth by leveraging our expertise and technical knowledge across different technologies and frameworks, while closely collaborating with the development team and other validators.
Country of Incorporation: PolandName of Applying Institution: Hodl Tech
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://hodltech.info
Short description of Applying Institution: HODL tech is developing the World’s First Hardware device that never stores the digital assets like passwords, private keys etc. in a single place giving it 10x more security than a normal pen drive, doesn't require you to backup it up anywhere, and helps in recovery of your digital assets without compromising Privacy & Control.
Why self-operate: Hodl Tech already runs validators for networks like Celestia, Polygon, Huddle01 amongst others. It also currently secures private keys offline for some of the largest financial institutions for their cloud needs through its secure hardware product.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Found out on twitter
How will you contribute?: We intend to add support for the Canton network on our hardware so that the users of the network have one of the safest solution for their assets on the Canton network. Additionally, this enables cold storage of other essential validator ops keys such as sequencer authentication key, root namespace key, and namespace intermediate key amongst others.
Country of Incorporation: UAEName of Applying Institution: FreshOk
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://freshok.in
Short description of Applying Institution: FreshOk started as an online platform for delivering fresh fruits, vegetables, and other groceries directly to consumers, often within an hour.
Why self-operate: We have run nodes for networks like Polygon before and have handled server loads for millions of orders on a daily basis.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Through a friend
How will you contribute?: We intend to shift our stablecoin payments settlement on Canton network. We currently process > $10M GMV per month
Country of Incorporation: IndiaName of Applying Institution: Rho Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://rho.trading
Short description of Applying Institution: Developer of Rho Protocol - institutional-grade on-chain interest rates market
Why self-operate: We are operating an institutional-grade on-chain derivatives market with stringent standards for availability, latency, and data privacy. We intend to utilize a blended approach of third-party and in-house infrastructure to ensure we can meet the demands of our customer base and regulatory standards. Our team comprises seasoned capital markets and technology professionals and is well-equipped to handle the requirements.
Sponsor: Digital Asset
How did you hear about us?: Eric Saraniecki
How will you contribute?: We are working with several Canton ecosystem participants to develop a Canton deployment of our interest rates market for individuals and institutions. We intend to enable trading of both crypto-native and RWA- rates.
Country of Incorporation: UAE
Additional emails: serafima@...; hugo@...; kirill@...Name of Applying Institution: Bronbro
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://bronbro.io/
Short description of Applying Institution: Bro_n_Bro Validator is a professional blockchain infrastructure provider founded in 2021, with headquarters in Poland and a dedicated bare-metal setup. Our team of three experienced engineers has been validating continuously since June 2021, securing leading Proof-of-Stake networks and actively contributing to the blockchain ecosystems.
Why self-operate: We believe we are uniquely qualified to operate validators in the Canton Network because of our proven expertise, hands-on infrastructure, and culture of reliability:-
Track Record of Stability: Over three years of uninterrupted operations across diverse PoS networks with 99.9% uptime and zero slashing incidents.
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Technical Depth: Running our own bare-metal servers, with full control over performance, uptime, and security. We have built monitoring and analytics solutions and custom deployment pipelines to ensure 24/7 high availability.
We prefer to operate our own validator rather than rely on existing providers because sovereign infrastructure is at the core of our philosophy. It allows us to guarantee reliability, react instantly to incidents, and contribute directly to governance and protocol development — without intermediaries.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Our own research
How will you contribute?: We would like to support the organization and facilitation of hackathons and actively engage with developers. Our experience includes co-organization, participation, and winning placements in major industry events such as Cosmoverse (2021–2024), Cosmos Gateway (2022–2023), Barcelona Hacker House (2024), Berlin CosmWasm (2024), and TON Open League (2024).
Country of Incorporation: Poland
Name of Applying Institution: Automata Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://app.swipetinder.me
Short description of Applying Institution: Automata Labs builds mobile apps to create seamless UX around automations for agentic workflows especially for social and fintech ecosystems. One of its apps already has over 100k users in 60+ countries.
Why self-operate: We currently secure 20+ networks, including Celestia, Walrus, Ika, Starknet, and Avail, consistently delivering high uptime, transparent governance, and close collaboration with protocol teams. We have proven our technical capabilities to run our own infra over the past few years. We prefer to run our own validators instead of relying on existing operators because it ensures direct accountability, independence, and alignmen
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Through a friend
How will you contribute?: We will build agentic apps on mobile to increase throughout of external users to transact with Canton issued assets.
Country of Incorporation: UAEName of Applying Institution: Atlas Cooper
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.atlascooper.com
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a start-up working on useful applications that intersect traditional finance and blockchain.
Why self-operate: We want to interact directly with the network as a validator in the process of working on applications for Canton and are committed to being a responsible network participant.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Through our social network when discussing Layer 1s for traditional finance
How will you contribute?: Work on applications that can add value to the ecosystem
Country of Incorporation: USAName of Applying Institution: Munshot Technologies
URL to website of Applying Institution: http://muns.ai/
Short description of Applying Institution: We build Fund Ops software for professional asset managers - KYC/eligibility, subs/redemptions, NAV & fees, and compliant reporting. MUNS, our AI co-pilot, runs asynchronous research agents on real-time market data to generate alpha signals. Today, fund managers collectively manage $100M+ using MUNS.
Why self-operate: We plan to co-build institutional apps on Canton, starting with On-chain Fund Ops: a privacy-preserving fund-admin and transfer stack with atomic DvP to tokenized cash. Our team has run always-on financial software with rigorous operations. Self-operating a validator lets us move faster, support partners directly, and maintain accountable uptime and incident response.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Rohan @Cypherock (Currently runs a validator)
How will you contribute?: We’ll ship production-grade Fund-Ops apps, open-source reusable modules and templates, and onboard design-partner funds/admins to co-build. We’ll share learnings, host short workshops, and provide clear product feedback and usage metrics to the community.
Country of Incorporation: India
Additional emails: ceekay@...Name of Applying Institution: Otoclick App
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://otoclick.app
Short description of Applying Institution: Otoclick is an AI based startup that builds agentic workflows for the Android ecosystem
Why self-operate: We have experience running both AI and Blockchain infra before. We run H100s on our cloud servers and have run nodes of Celastia, Polygon, Aether, Avail amongst others in the past.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: On Twitter
How will you contribute?: We intend to build mobile based AI agent to enable swift and easy Canton network token transfers, trading and yield optimizations for retail audience who find it challenging to navigate Crypto UX.
Country of Incorporation: UAEName of Applying Institution: CaviarNine Limited
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.caviarnine.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: CaviarNine is a fintech company building decentralized trading applications. Through Invariance Pte Limited (Singapore) or CaviarNine Limited (BVI), we operate across Asia, Europe, and North America. Our team brings 40+ years of TradFi markets and systems experience, combined with blockchain development expertise, having delivered decentralized exchanges, perpetual futures, and liquid staking protocols.
Why self-operate: Our team combines global banking backgrounds with years of DeFi product development. We have built and operated high-volume applications on Radix and bring strong experience in cloud technology and validator infrastructure. Running our own validator will give us hands-on exposure to Canton’s architecture and ensure we are ready to build compliant, institutional-grade applications.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Multiple sources over the year from Alex - Cumberland, Chris at Gemini runs a validator and even Lightshift recommended Canton.
How will you contribute?: We plan to contribute by developing privacy-focused trading and liquidity applications on Canton, building on our prior work with exchanges and derivatives. We will also share knowledge, contribute open-source code, and support developer adoption through collaboration and community engagement.
Country of Incorporation: British Virgin Islands
Additional emails: oliver@..., chris@..., frostbyte058@...Name of Applying Institution: ChatNotes
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://chatnotes.xyz
Short description of Applying Institution: Chatnotes is a mobile first messaging app that enables social finance on a global scale using stablecoins. Its new product which is in stealth is essentially splitwise but with stablecoins to enable social settlement of transactions. It has already produced > $100k in settled transactions so far.
Why self-operate: We have extensive experience in running validators across multiple ecosystems, including Celestia, Story, Xion, Polygon and others. Our team has built a strong track record in ensuring high uptime, secure infrastructure, and reliable performance across diverse environments.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: On Twitter
How will you contribute?: We intend drive our current settlement of stablecoins through Canton network and build new social trading apps on the network.
Country of Incorporation: UAEName of Applying Institution: Minder
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.linkedin.com/company/minder-web3/?originalSubdomain=fr
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a consulting services that offers Agile Software solutions for companies that are struggling.
Why self-operate: As a consultant I want to try out some of the cutting edge technologies and get others onboarded. Hope to use this in the future to maximize crypto in a security and private manner.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: GS annoucement
How will you contribute?: N/A
Country of Incorporation: United StatesCongratulations 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, please wait for an allocation.
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High-Level Steps:
- Spin up your node on DevNet
- Share the fixed IP you'd like whitelisted on DevNet for your Validator node with your SV sponsor
- Spin up your node for DevNet
- Request a DevNet onboarding secret - via API call (curl)
- Spin up your node on TestNet
- Share your fixed IP you'd like whitelisted on TestNst for your Validator node with your SV sponsor
- Spin up your node on MainNet
- Reach out directly to your SV sponsor to request a MainNet onboarding secret after you have an allocation
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