Validator Operators Approved: DF Delta Finance SA, NGM OTC, Validator247, Crypto.com, Traego, PROFIT NODES, NodesCat, Starlightnode, DotSol Labs, Saratoga Partners, Hash Chain, Eigenlayer, Astralisk, SF College, Crosnest, DracoSec Research Limited, Hayes Labs, Talentum Labs, B3X, Zoth, LISTIA INC, Acteq, BloClick, Enigma, Solv Finance, Autonomous Finance Labs, Peaceful Studio, Lunar Strategy, 79anvi, Bosteck Pte. Ltd., Quantumcore d.o.o., Allocate Technologies, Deutsche Telekom, HiveFive.cc, Tem
Total approvals in this batch: 36
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, please wait for an allocation. This approval does not award any allocation for MainNet.
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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
Socials:
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Name of Applying Institution: DF Delta Finance SA
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.deltafinance.ch/en/a-propos/
Short description of Applying Institution: Delta Finance is a Geneva-based wealth management company offering comprehensive andpersonalized asset management services.We expertly guide our clients toward the achievement of their long-term financial goals withprecision, insight, and dedication. Founded by a group of seasoned investors with diversebackgrounds—from venture capital specialists to wealth managers and French CGPs—DeltaFinance acts as your dedicated family office, providing a solid investment foundation and a fullsuite of services tailored to your family’s needs.
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.: Our company has 8 years experience in the Crypto industry and our directors have operated nodes in the past.
Sponsor: We are in contact with IntellectEU
How did you hear about us?: James Webb
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Using our network to introduce Canton to important players in the ecosystem
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Name of Applying Institution: NGM OTC
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://choiholdings.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: Nilseh Global Markets (NGM) is the OTC subsidiary of Choi Holdings. Choi Holdings invests in category-defining applications ranging from consumer tech, equity markets, public companies, and real estate, as well as cutting-edge applications in blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, and Metaverse. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs fundamentally shape our future by incubating their startups, providing investment, or helping them build their applications. Our team of experts can help your company every step of the way, from market research, to product development, to reaching your target customers. Whatever your company needs, our team has been through it before and will provide the expertise you need. Our aggressively growing team is based in Los Angeles/San Francisco, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and offer medical and retirement benefits, competitive compensation, remote work, and a supportive environment. Join us and help define this exciting frontier of new technologies.
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.: To date we have already facilitated $3M USD in OTC $CC trades. We will continue to service our client market and are currently looking to run a node to host CantonSwap so we can facilitate our own escrowed trades thanks to the solution provided by the Obsidian Systems team.
Sponsor: Obsidian Systems
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to further co-invest into Canton ecosystem projects with a sizeable portion of our fund. Since 2020 we have turned a $25m capital call into over $1B in AUM.
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Name of Applying Institution: Validator247
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://validator247.com/
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a professional validator team operating under the brand Validator247, providing secure and reliable blockchain infrastructure. Our team has extensive experience across multiple ecosystems, offering validator, RPC, API, snapshot, explorer, and monitoring services to ensure decentralized networks operate with maximum stability and trust worldwide.
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 qualify to operate a validator on the Canton Network due to our proven experience running secure and reliable blockchain infrastructure under Validator247, including validators, RPC, APIs, monitoring, and snapshots. Operating our own validator allows us to maintain full control over security, performance, and responsiveness, while contributing to the network’s decentralization and resilience.
Sponsor:GSF
How did you hear about us?: I found out about the project via its social media and from colleagues running validators.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: I plan to support the Canton ecosystem by operating validators, engaging with the community, and connecting developers and projects to the network.
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Name of Applying Institution: Crypto.com
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Short description of Applying Institution: Exchange
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 need high reliability and availability
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Research
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Exchange
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Name of Applying Institution: Traego
URL to website of Applying Institution: www.traego.ai
Short description of Applying Institution: AI Company focused on complex financial and MCP interactions
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.: Extensive experience hosting validators and blockchain nodes at Bitwave, built our custom terraform and helm scripts, etc.
Sponsor: Bitwave / pat.white@... VIA IntellectEU
How did you hear about us?: Bitwave
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We're preparing an AI first, MCP API for Canton, with a focus on enabling agentic canton use.
Country of Incorporation: USA────────────
Name of Applying Institution: PROFIT NODES
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a private institution thats running nodes and we are validators in many projects
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.: I have experience deploying and maintaining enterprise-grade blockchain and distributed systems infrastructure with a focus on reliability, performance, and security. My operational policies prioritize integrity, transparency, and alignment with the network’s governance standards
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: X , Telegram
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Operate a secure, reliable, and performant validator that increases the overall resilience and decentralization of the network
Country of Incorporation: Germany────────────
Name of Applying Institution: NodesCat
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://nodescat.info
Short description of Applying Institution: Nodecat provides access to over 100 blockchain RPC nodes and block explorers. Our affordable blockchain API gives you everything you need to build and scale decentralized apps - without managing your own infrastructure. Its client list includes Mercle.ai, Primevault, Nibbl Labs amongst others.
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 run validator nodes on behalf of our clients so that can parse the blockchain states for their apps. We are going to enable the same for Canton network and hence need our own validator.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: On twitter
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We will support Canton network on our infra so that we can enable third party apps to query its blockchain state through a simple API without requiring to get their own validator.
Country of Incorporation: UAE────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Starlightnode
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://starlightnode.com/
Applying Institution email: david.jentour@...
Short description of Applying Institution: proven blockchain infra-services provider operating for several years
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.: Our team has acquired a solid experience in infrastructure services and blockchain technology devOps, so we believe that our active and precise participation will be an added asset to the Canton Global Synchronizer ecosystem.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Crypto news
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Within our team, we have the ability to create tools and applications to improve the project on his early stages.
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Name of Applying Institution: DotSol Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://dotsol.info
Applying Institution email: akshit@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Dotsol Labs is an expert blockchain development consultancy specializing in smart contracts, DeFi protocols, and decentralized applications across multiple chains. It has more than 10 yrs of experience working with projects building on leading chains such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Starknet and Polygon.
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 > 10 yrs of experience of building smart contracts and decentralized apps. We are looking to building Defi apps for Canton for which we need validator to iterate fast to launch them.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: On Twitter
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We are going to build Defi apps on Canton starting with an undercollateralized lending.
Country of Incorporation: UAE────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Saratoga Partners
URL to website of Applying Institution: saratogalabs.xyz
Applying Institution email: nshah@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a venture capital holding company focused on strategic investments across technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors. Our portfolio approach emphasizes long-term partnership with exceptional management teams and category-defining companies in high-growth markets.
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.: Our investment management experience requires robust operational infrastructure and risk management capabilities. We maintain direct oversight of critical systems to ensure alignment with our fiduciary responsibilities and institutional-grade security standards. Self-operation allows us to integrate validator operations with our existing compliance and monitoring frameworks.
Sponsor: na
How did you hear about us?: portfolio company
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to leverage our portfolio network to identify and onboard institutional partners to Canton's privacy-preserving infrastructure. Our investment focus areas in financial services and digital infrastructure align with Canton's enterprise adoption goals, allowing us to facilitate strategic partnerships and drive ecosystem growth through our established relationships.
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Name of Applying Institution: Hash Chain
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: mromanov@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a technology company focused on blockchain infrastructure development and network security solutions.
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.: Our team has experience in distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure. We prefer maintaining direct operational control to ensure consistency with our internal standards.
Sponsor: na
How did you hear about us?: conference
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to develop infrastructure solutions and contribute technical expertise to support network growth and security protocols.
Country of Incorporation: Poland────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Eigenlayer
URL to website of Applying Institution: eigenlayer.cc
Applying Institution email: kelly@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a blockchain technology company focused on developing secure, decentralized protocols and infrastructure solutions. Our expertise lies in cryptoeconomic systems and we work on advancing the broader ecosystem through innovative validation and security mechanisms.
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.: Our team has extensive experience in blockchain protocols and distributed systems. We have the technical expertise to maintain reliable validator infrastructure and prefer self-operation to ensure alignment with our security standards and operational practices, rather than depending on external operators.
Sponsor: NA
How did you hear about us?: Colleague
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to build privacy-focused applications and contribute to the development of decentralized infrastructure solutions. Our team will work on introducing institutional partners and developers to the Foundation while exploring innovative approaches to network security and validation.
Country of Incorporation: US────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Astralisk
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://astralisk.com
Applying Institution email: ruslan.n@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are Astralisk, a blockchain infrastructure provider focused on secure, reliable, and decentralized validator operations. Our mission is to support emerging networks by providing high-availability validator services, advanced monitoring, and transparent governance participation.
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.: "Astralisk has hands-on experience running validators across multiple blockchain ecosystems (Cosmos SDK–based networks, EVM-compatible chains, and rollup testnets).
We maintain:Professional infrastructure (bare-metal servers with redundancy, PXE-based automated deployments, LACP bonding, advanced monitoring with Prometheus + Grafana).
Proven track record in managing RPC endpoints and validator nodes with secure key management and 24/7 uptime.
Community commitment: sharing technical guides, supporting delegators, and contributing to decentralization.
We prefer to operate our own validator to ensure full responsibility for infrastructure quality, governance participation, and ecosystem contribution, instead of relying on existing operators."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Through blockchain community discussions
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Run highly available validator and RPC infrastructure to increase decentralization and resilience of the network.
Country of Incorporation: Currently in the process of incorporation, operating as an independent validator entity under the name Astralisk────────────
Name of Applying Institution: sf college
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: 42017239@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Santa Fe College (SF College) is a public college located in Gainesville, Florida, part of the Florida College System. It offers associate and baccalaureate degree programs, serving as a key higher education institution in North Central Florida, dedicated to providing quality education, economic development, and innovative services to students and the community.
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.: I've run many authentication nodes, and autonomous nodes are easy to manage.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Twitter
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: build applications
Country of Incorporation: USA────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Crosnest
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.cros-nest.com/
Applying Institution email: florent@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a blockchain infrastructure provider specializing in validator operations across 35 networks. Crosnest serves over 35,000 delegators and secures $100M in assets under management. Our focus is on reliable bare-metal infrastructure, advanced monitoring, and contributing to the resilience of decentralized ecosystems.
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’ve been running validators for years across 70+ blockchains, both testnets and mainnets, Our setup is bare-metal only, with remote signing (Horcrux 2-of-3 when possible) and full monitoring stacks (Grafana, Tenderduty, custom alerting).We prefer to run our own infrastructure rather than outsourcing because it gives us full control over security, performance, and reliability. Using an existing operator would add a layer of dependency that goes against our philosophy of being directly accountable for the networks we support."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: We heard about you from Paul from KYVE
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: "Beyond operating validators, Crosnest plans to: • Share monitoring and reliability tooling that can be adopted by the Canton community. • Provide educational content and transparency dashboards for delegators and ecosystem partners. • Support Canton governance by contributing expertise in validator infrastructure, security, and incentive alignment."
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Name of Applying Institution: DracoSec Research Limited
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: chrischan@...
Short description of Applying Institution: information security services company.
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.: As an information security service company in Hong Kong, I provide information security services in this major international financial centre for some of the most important financial institutions that are also part of the ecosystem of Canton network, but unfortunately I cannot disclose their names due to non-disclosure agreements in our contracts. I also provide training for government departments and law enforcement agency. I also assume the role as the ambassador of the American international information security service company OffSec and founder of BSides community in Hong Kong, and am regularly invited as speaker to major information security conferences globally and locally, such as Black Hat, DEFCON, IAPP.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: I follow updates and development in relation to information security, crypto and finance closely.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: With my extensive network and background as an information security specialist, I can introduce Canton to the finance and technology sectors in Hong Kong to participate in the future development of Canton.
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Name of Applying Institution: Hayes Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: paras@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Hayes Labs is a leading venture studio that designs, builds, and scales bank-grade SaaS for fintechs and banks in India and Singapore. The team has delivered production systems across onboarding/KYC, payments and lending origination, treasury tools, risk & compliance workflows, and secure customer apps - operated under clear SLAs and audit requirements.
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.: Hayes Labs runs mission-critical software for regulated institutions with 24/7 reliability, audited change control, and disciplined security. Self-operating a validator gives the direct accountability, governance cadence, and incident response their banking partners expect.
Sponsor: Five North (Yiannis - y@...)
How did you hear about us?: Yiannis
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Hayes Labs will onboard institutional fintech partners in India and Singapore to real pilots on Canton—prioritizing use cases where selective disclosure and atomic settlement matter (KYC/consent, disbursements/repayments, escrow, treasury, and compliant reporting). In the near term, the studio can introduce: (1) payment SaaS providers/gateways and EMIs, (2) credit scoring & decisioning platforms from the FinBox ecosystem, (3) bank/account-aggregator SaaS and data-sharing participants, (4) card issuers/processors and program managers, and (5) NBFC lenders/co-lending platforms.
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Name of Applying Institution: Talentum Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://talentumlabs.com/
Applying Institution email: yegor@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Web3-Native Builders, Network Validators and Fund
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.: "Our DevOps team has strong expertise in deploying monitoring solutions with Grafana, creating dashboards, and developing custom monitoring scripts when needed. We also have specialists with extensive experience in deploying and maintaining microservice-based applications. Additionally, we have opportunity to set up automated updates and other workflows using both custom Python scripts/parsers and tools such as n8n.On the top of it, we are active builders in the space, with our core product Talentum.id which has 1M+ users."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: TG
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Our DevOps team and developers can contribute by creating custom monitoring, dashboards, organizing a testnet faucet, attracting users through activities and tasks on talentum.id, writing scripts, instructions, one-liners, and moderating the community. We can build Talentum for your ecosystem, where users will explore it in a gamified and rewarding way, solving the cold start and growth problem for many apps within it.
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Name of Applying Institution: B3X
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://b3x.ai
Applying Institution email: abhijit@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are an onchain perpetual futures decentralized exchange enabling global markets onchain.
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 are looking to run global markets onchain which will faciliate the Canton ecosystem to create, build and faciliate markets including Canton collateralized perps and allow ecosystem to find a place to launch fund, hedge canton and generate yield on existing canton holdings.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Teagan
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We will build a perp DEX for canton ecosystem.
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Name of Applying Institution: Zoth
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://zoth.io/
Applying Institution email: jd@...
Short description of Applying Institution: A chain-abstracted stablecoin ecosystem designed to make money move seamlessly across chains and borders — a hybrid between web2 and web3. on one side, we provide the compliance, integrations, and rails enterprises need; on the other, we leverage defi liquidity and innovation to unlock new yield and capital efficiency.
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.: "Our team has direct experience operating blockchain infrastructure across multiple ecosystems (including Avalanche, Cosmos, Ethereum, Algorand, etc..We already manage nodes and liquidity positions for cross-chain stablecoin corridors, giving us the technical and organizational expertise to ensure uptime, security, and responsiveness.
Unlike many retail-focused operators, we are structured around compliance and institutional readiness. We work actively in regulated markets (UAE, India, Japan, etc.) and can bring this institutional-grade reliability and governance into the Canton Network.
We are not seeking to operate validators as a passive yield strategy. Our core business (Zoth) is building chain-abstracted stablecoin rails, and Canton’s institutional positioning makes it a strategic environment where we want to be deeply integrated."
Sponsor: N/A but happy to explore
How did you hear about us?: First became aware of Canton through its public announcements and ecosystem updates and then through network we got connected to Melvis.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We will integrate our chain-abstracted stablecoin (ZeUSD) into Canton to enable real-world cross-border settlement, with a focus on enterprise and institutional corridors. We will also introduce Canton to our existing Web2 and Web3 partners across MENA and Asia — especially regulated fintechs, exchanges, and payment platforms, to help drive adoption beyond the traditional crypto community. On top of this we will bring in projects we already incubate/accelerate through Orbit Startups and our venture portfolio, providing Canton with access to founders building in payments, DeFi infrastructure, and RWA.
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Name of Applying Institution: LISTIA INC
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.listia.com
Applying Institution email: gee@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Listia is a peer to peer marketplace with over 100M items traded. It was founded in 2009 as a YC company and transactions are made via virtual currency or USD.
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 been running Listia for over 10 years now, scaling to 10M users and over 100M items traded in the marketplace. We have lots of experience running a large scale infrastructure, where security and transaction speed are critical. Besides technical experience, we also have extensive experience handling fraud and verification, and also have built multiple large blockchain projects on Ethereum in the past as well.
Sponsor: n/a
How did you hear about us?: Vinh from 5N
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We would like to integrate Canton network into the Listia marketplace. We envision using it to secure payments, help with verification.. give our users digital asset wallets for buying/selling and also help process stablecoin payments which is on our roadmap.
Country of Incorporation: USA────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Acteq
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: acteq13@...
Short description of Applying Institution: node runner
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.: very extensive validator experience, io go aztec hemi chasm and others
Sponsor: no
How did you hear about us?: telegram
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: all
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Name of Applying Institution: BloClick
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://bloclick.com
Applying Institution email: bloclick@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Team of four high skilled software, comms and infrastructure experts. Coming from the banking and aviation industry with over 60 years of experience altogether. In blockchain for 8 years now.
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.: I know people of Luganodes and know Pathrocknetwork as well and, to be honest, we do not like to be in projects where we are not running anything. That ends up in becoming a pure trader / investor. We like and want to live the projects from inside, on a daily basis, helping where we can and having a sense of purpose. From the tech point of view, we have ran validators in the most different chains: Solana, Near, Cosmos networks, Mina, Ethereum, lots────────────
Name of Applying Institution: Enigma
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://enigma-validator.com/
Applying Institution email: imad@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Enigma is a professional validator and relayer operating on 50+ mainnets, securing over $150M in staked assets across chains such as Hyperliquid, Sei, Axelar, Celestia, Berachain, Story, dYdX, and more. We bring strong expertise in high-performance infrastructure, supporting both foundations and market makers on networks like Wintermute, dYdX, Axelar, Sei, where we operate critical components of their infrastructure: from foundation nodes and private RPCs to data analytics platforms. With deep knowledge in databases and indexer technologies, we leverage data to provide valuable insights for projects and traders. Most recently, we have built and deployed a Hyperliquid Hypercore indexer now running on mainnet.
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 consider to be qualify as at Enigma, we have deep expertise in running secure, high-performance validator nodes with best practices for uptime, 24/7 monitoring/on-call and slashing protection.More we have a multi-region architecture with remote signers and geo-redundant backups to avoid single points of failure and speed recovery.
We self-operate as we think decentralization is vital to ensure network security, resilience, and fair governance. It also allows to keeps key custody and accountability in-house.
Several stakeholders have already expressed interest in staking with Enigma, reflecting trust in our operations. Supporting our validator helps strengthen decentralization while providing delegators with a reliable and professional staking option."
Sponsor: Global-Synchronizer-Foundation , we meet yuval and @teagan0x at conference and talked about validator onboarding
How did you hear about us?: we heard about Canton at conferences, from other builders in the space and on socials
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Beyond running a validator, we're eager to support Canton through community engagement and education. We can create multilingual content, especially in French, to explain Canton concepts and its role in the ecosystem. We're also open to co-hosting AMAs, translating key resources, and helping onboard new users and developers through localized outreach. In addition, we would be glad to deploy our real-time indexer services on Canton. We’ve already done this for other chains such as Hyperliquid and Berachain for example, here is the Hyperliquid one: https://www.hypedexer.com/ We can also provide infrastructure services such as RPC endpoints with integrated load balancers, daily snapshots, and other infrastructure services to strengthen the accessibility and reliability of the network.
Country of Incorporation: Our company is registered in the United Arab Emirates and operates under full KYB complianceName of Applying Institution: Solv Finance
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://solv.finance
Applying Institution email: jingxiong@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Solv is the Operating Layer for Bitcoin, powering the $1T Bitcoin Finance economy through lending, liquid staking, structured yield, and institutional-grade fund management. With over $2.5 billion in TVL, and more than 500,000 users, Solv has become the trusted choice for both TradFi institutions and crypto-native users, building the financial foundation where capital flows seamlessly across TradFi, CeFi, and DeFi. Through SolvBTC and xSolvBTC, Solv sets the gold standard for transparency and trust. All BTC-backed products on Solv are verifiably asset-backed in real time via Chainlink’s industry-leading Proof of Reserve (PoR) system, ensuring complete on-chain transparency and asset integrity. SOLV is currently listed on Binance, Bybit and Bithumb. Solv Protocol is backed by Binance Labs, Blockchain Capital, Laser Digital (Nomura), OKX Ventures and others, and has been audited by OpenZeppelin, Quantstamp, CertiK, SlowMist, Salus, and Secbit.
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 operate validators on networks that are strategically important to us and have developed deep expertise in running validator infrastructure. Specifically, we manage validators for Babylon and Core, both Bitcoin staking networks. We have launched liquid staking tokens (xSolvBTC and SolvBTC.CORE) and actively drive growth of their onchain ecosystems by integrating with other protocols and developing network-specific DeFi use cases.Babylon:
We run the Babylon Finality Provider (BTC staking) as well as validators securing the Babylon Genesis Chain (Cosmos).
Currently, more than $600M in BTC is staked through Solv’s validators.
Our infrastructure has achieved 100% uptime for the Babylon Finality Provider and 99.9% uptime for Babylon Genesis validators.
We expanded xSolvBTC (Babylon LST) across more than 10 networks, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Base, Berachain, Soneium, Ink, HyperEVM, and others.
Core:
We also operate a validator for the Core Network.
In collaboration with Core, we launched the first Shariah-compliant Bitcoin liquid staking token. The launch event was covered by CoinDesk in Apr 2025 at Dubai Token2049."
Sponsor: Global Synchronizer Foundation (GSF)
How did you hear about us?: We have been following Canton Network developments through media and social media, and some of our colleagues are formerly from Goldman Sachs.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We see strong alignment between Solv’s vision and Canton’s focus on trading-focused, on-chain financial use cases, and collateral mobility. Trading & Yield Strategies: We plan to migrate parts of our BTC yield and trading activity onto Canton. Potential use cases include JPY–USD carry trades and exposure to Brazilian and Mexican T-Bills, which can generate high transaction volumes. We have already begun discussions with market makers, introduced through the Global Synchronizer Foundation, to explore execution on Canton. BTC, Stablecoin and RWA Use Cases: We are preparing to launch a Bitcoin RWA vault with Binance, where SolvBTC can be borrowed for USDC and subscribed into Circle’s USYC as margin collateral. If Canton can support these flows, we would be keen to shift them on-chain. More broadly, BTC-backed stablecoin borrowing is our most strategic use case, with more than $260M in active demand. We are also open to creating a BTC yield product unique to Canton, leveraging the network’s ability to support complex capital flows. SolvBTC Infrastructure Upgrade: As part of the next upgrade, we are designing a decentralized attestor network for SolvBTC. Canton’s Global Synchronizer could enhance both security and interoperability for this upgrade. Collateral Mobility: Collateral mobility is central to institutional DeFi. We have already deployed SolvBTC on more than 15 blockchains and believe extending this work into Canton will further unlock liquidity and enable cross-market use cases.
Country of Incorporation: BVI
Name of Applying Institution: Autonomous Finance Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://autonomous.finance/
Applying Institution email: ivan@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Research Lab & Incubator focused on the future of Finance
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.: "I’m Ivan Morozov, CTO at Autonomous Finance (autonomous.finance). I built the bare-metal core infra for BSDEX (BaFin-regulated) and designed multi-datacenter trading/clearing infra for Stuttgart’s derivatives exchange. I’ve worked with Digital Asset since 2017 and am fluent in Daml’s formally specified, deterministic execution model and privacy/authorization semantics (Daml-LF). My background includes formal verification; see github.com/allquantor.Readiness (immediate):
• Fixed egress IP ready for SV allow-listing; understand sponsor-issued onboarding secret / scan URL flow.
• OIDC in place (Auth0/Okta possible) for validator, Ledger API and UIs; JWT validation and RBAC wired.
• Artifact access via JFrog + Helm/K8s or hardened Docker Compose; EU hardware with HA Postgres, backups/DR.
• Ops: 24/7 SRE, change-controlled CI/CD, external KMS/HSM, metrics/alerts, incident response.
• Governance & ops: willing to join validator-ops comms, test upgrades across DevNet/TestNet, and maintain high liveness.Goal: run a compliant, high-availability validator for institutional workloads and help onboard EU participants/apps."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: I was following Digital Asset since it was Digital Asset Holdings in 2017 and started build DAML
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Settlement Agents
Country of Incorporation: BVIName of Applying Institution: Peaceful Studio
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://peaceful.studio
Applying Institution email: matthieu@...
Short description of Applying Institution: A software company aiming to be running nodes as a service and offering custom blockchain services (deployment, consultancy, tailored development)
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.: Our engineers have already deployed nodes for another company (Trakx). We believe that the deployments are more reliable than average (using cloud managed databases, not containers, relying on SOC2 compliant deployment platforms, etc.)
Sponsor: Simon Letort - Digital Assets - simon.letort@...
How did you hear about us?: Word of mouth, and the recent news!
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Running node on behalf of third parties to help them onboard the network, developing paying applications, potentially help with contributions to the open source repositories.
Country of Incorporation: EstoniaName of Applying Institution: Lunar Strategy
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://www.lunarstrategy.com/
Applying Institution email: vladyslav@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Since 2019, Lunar Strategy has served as a node validator and marketing firm in crypto, supporting growth with creative campaigns, content, and creators strategies - alongside reliable validation to enhance project trust.
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 qualify to operate validators in the Canton Network because Lunar Strategy combines proven DevOps expertise with a strong track record as both a validator and Web3 growth partner since 2019. Unlike most operators who focus only on uptime, we bring additional value by driving ecosystem adoption through marketing, PR, and community activation. Running our own validator ensures we can directly align incentives - securing the network while simultaneously amplifying its visibility and adoption - something that cannot be achieved by delegating to an existing operator.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: https://x.com/MlvsBznz
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to contribute by building and operating a Canton Ecosystem Radar: a daily hub for ecosystem insights, metrics, and community engagement. This will include real-time dashboards (TVL, activity, governance), curated and original content (daily updates, campaign highlights, weekly digests, longform research), and governance recaps to increase participation. By combining data, content, and creator amplification, we aim to give Canton a neutral, data-driven community hub that supports awareness, adoption, and long-term growth.
Country of Incorporation: PortugalName of Applying Institution: 79anvi
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://79anvi.com/
Applying Institution email: andrei@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a validator advocating for decentralization and contributing to the security and integrity of blockchain networks
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.: "I always monitor my nodes/validators, which allows me to respond quickly to problems, updates, or other force majeure events. I only use hardware from time-tested companies.
From the very beginning, I have liked decentralization, which is why I act as a validator myself."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: telegram
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: infra for validators
Country of Incorporation: PolandName of Applying Institution: Bosteck Pte. Ltd.
URL to website of Applying Institution:
Applying Institution email: lisa@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a technology-focused blockchain development team with 10+ years of hands-on experience across consensus & P2P networking, smart-contract, and validator/node operations. We have delivered public/permissioned chain components, DEXs, non-custodial wallets, and launchpads; experienced with BFT-style consensus and network tuning, key management & signing (HSM/KMS/MPC), and production-grade CI/CD.
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 are a blockchain development company with 10+ years of engineering experience. We are fully capable of operating validator nodes on the Canton Network and prefer to run them ourselves for direct control over reliability, performance, and costs.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Through a partner in the ecosystem. Friends at IBTC (an existing Canton operator) recommended that we apply; they operate validators on Canton and are working on the CBTC project.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We plan to contribute in four ways: 1. Build & operate applications – Launch a decentralized derivatives/contract-trading application and a meme-launch platform on Canton, with transparent metrics. 2. Talent referrals & onboarding – We will recommend talented engineers from our network to join the Canton ecosystem and support their onboarding with runbooks, templates, and hands-on guidance. 3. Ecosystem growth – Introduce projects and developers from our network to the Foundation; co-host meetups/hackathons in [your region]; provide feedback/telemetry to improve validator and client UX. 4. Public infrastructure – Maintain high-availability endpoints and dashboards for testnets; share runbooks and incident reports to raise operational best practices across the community.
Country of Incorporation: SingaporeName of Applying Institution: Quantumcore d.o.o.
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://quantumcore.pro
Applying Institution email: snezana@...
Short description of Applying Institution: We are a tech company, established in 2007. In 2014 we started working in blockchain and have since ran Bitcoin miners, Ethereum miners and now validators, Solana validator, a few Cosmos based networks where we were a validator and Polygon back when it was still Matic.
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.: Since we have 10 years of experience with running blockchain infra, we believe we are more than adequate to run our own validator on Canton. We use dedicated servers with custom/in house monitoring solutions with alerts going to telegram and pagerduty.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: from fellow node operators
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Since our company is primarily a solutions programming company, we would like to explore and see if we can build something or at least support others in some way (either with tooling or something else).
Country of Incorporation: SloveniaName of Applying Institution: Allocate Technologies
URL to website of Applying Institution: www.alloc8.xyz
Applying Institution email: banks@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Allocate is a DeFi infrastructure company focused on making on-chain markets more efficient for professional traders and investors. Our team has shipped $10M+ TVL across prior ventures, including an under-collateralized lending market and spot-margin smart-account systems. We work with funds and trading teams to turn operational complexity into simple, reliable workflows.
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.: Alloc8 is a proven DeFi infrastructure team with a track record running production systems across volatile markets (>$10M TVL; lending and spot-margin smart-account rails). Self-operation enables tighter change control, faster iteration, and direct partner support with clear accountability for uptime and incident response.
Sponsor: GSF
How did you hear about us?: Pranav from DV Chain
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Allocate will build Canton-native DeFi applications for institutions, open-source reusable modules and templates, and onboard design-partner funds and venues. The team will host concise onboarding workshops, introduce relevant developers and projects to the Foundation, and share pragmatic usage metrics and product feedback to accelerate ecosystem growth.
Country of Incorporation: BVIName of Applying Institution: Deutsche Telekom
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://geschaeftskunden.telekom.de/business/loesungen/digitalisierung/it-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure/staking
Applying Institution email: benjamin.balzer@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Largest Telco in the World & Enterprise Validator
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 are running our Infrastructure on our own T-Cloud, highly regulated european enterprise Cloud plus adding our Telekom Brand flavour :)
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Cosmoverse
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: We can promote Canton on our Telekom Channels, Host Events at our DT Headquarters and much more
Country of Incorporation: GermanyName of Applying Institution: HiveFive.cc
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://hivefive.cc
Applying Institution email: john@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Team of four professionals in Blockchain Validation and Infrastructure — 2 DevOps engineers, a cybersecurity officer, and a business intelligence researcher. Collectively we bring 18 years of experience in building, securing, and maintaining systems. This combination of technical and analytical skills allows us to understand not only how to keep infrastructure secure and reliable, but also how to support projects with practical insights and community-oriented contributions.
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.: "Reliability and security are at the center of what we do. We operate validators with 24/7/365 monitoring, consistently delivering 99.9%+ uptime and applying strict cybersecurity standards. To achieve this, we rely on a hybrid infrastructure: trusted global providers like Amazon, Google, Oracle, OVH, and DigitalOcean, combined with our own physical servers in Portugal and Kazakhstan. This gives us both flexibility and independence, ensuring Canton can rely on stable and secure operations.Running our own validator is important to us because it guarantees direct control. It allows us to apply our own monitoring stack, keep security uncompromised, and respond quickly to any situation without relying on third-party operators. Our experience running nodes across multiple testnets and mainnets has shown us that owning the stack always translates into better performance and faster iteration — exactly what Canton needs as it grows."
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Validator's forum
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Our contributions go beyond running nodes. We actively test and improve ecosystems, offering to run stress-tests (when requested by developers), identify documentation gaps, and report potential bugs. We regularly create and maintain resources for the community — faucets, state syncs, installation guides, addrbooks, relayers, and peers — and we are committed to doing the same for Canton. In addition, we maintain documentation on node deployment and infrastructure support, which helps less experienced participants get started. We see this as an essential part of decentralization: helping more people join makes the network stronger. Finally, we bring enthusiasm and openness. For us, each new network is an opportunity not only to validate, but to connect, collaborate, and contribute. Canton is a project we’re excited to be part of — and we’re ready to put our skills and energy into making it stronger.
Country of Incorporation: KazakhstanName of Applying Institution: Tempest Market
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://tempest.market/
Applying Institution email: ben@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Tempest: The Open Weather Derivatives Platform Tempest is a decentralized platform for creating and trading weather derivatives, giving users powerful tools to hedge against climate and weather-related risks. Built on transparent smart contracts and powered by real-time meteorological data, Tempest allows investors to customize coverage for variables like temperature, rainfall, and wind.
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're building the worlds first open derivatives platform directly on the canton network, we believe our project will contribute greatly to the Canton ecosystem, it will also allow us to properly test our infrastructure before deployment. We will be running using 5north as our operator.
Sponsor: Yiannis from 5north. y@...
How did you hear about us?: Through efficient frontier.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: Through building an application and a canton native CLOB
Country of Incorporation: USAName of Applying Institution: Cortexa Labs
URL to website of Applying Institution: https://cortexa-labs.com
Applying Institution email: baria.n@...
Short description of Applying Institution: Cortexa Labs is an early-stage startup that develops AI agents to guide applicants through the complex MBA admissions process, with plans to expand to other multi-step application programs.
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.: Our team is uniquely qualified due to the deep technical expertise of our core members, whose backgrounds as DevOps professionals at established crypto companies provided them with extensive, firsthand experience in validator operations and maintenance. This skillset makes us uniquely capable of managing this responsibility ourselves.
Sponsor: N/A
How did you hear about us?: Through media resources such as Cointelegraph, as well as through friends working in companies within the industry.
How do you plan to further contribute to the Canton ecosystem?: At Cortexa Labs, we see a clear path to applying Canton within our product roadmap. As we expand, we plan to integrate crypto payment systems and prioritize enabling our users to pay for subscriptions using Canton tokens. Beyond payments, we are also exploring Canton’s potential for enhancing security — for example, leveraging its unique approach to transaction privacy and compliance to protect sensitive applicant data throughout the admissions journey. By combining these capabilities, we aim to both contribute to the Canton ecosystem and bring tangible value to our users.
Country of Incorporation: Georgia, in the next 6 months we will incorporate company in UAE