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Notional Validation

What chains does Notional validate?

Notional is an active set validator on:

  1. Osmosis
  2. Starname
  3. Regen
  4. Akash
  5. Gaia
  6. Sentinel
  7. E-Money
  8. Ixo
  9. Juno
  10. Sifchain
  11. Likecoin
  12. Ki
  13. Cyber
  14. Cheqd
  15. Stargaze
  16. Band
  17. Chihuahua
  18. Kava

The role of a validator

We think that validators should be actively involved in supporting the communities that they serve. As we scaled, it became increasingly obvious to Jacob that he could not personally manage every piece of adequately serving all 20 IBCGang blockchain communities, so we're moving to a model where larger vote weight %age validators have an individual rep to the community, and smaller vote weight chains have shared representatives.

We are in it for the long-haul.

We manage our organization by git issues, and if your community needs help, they can make an issue here.

Where we want to validate

Notional is validating, but not in the active set:

Notional wishes to validate:

  • Every IBC-enabled blockchain

Notional has decided to maintain relayers for all chains -- and document processes -- on all chains where we are in the active validator set. Presently, that means that we will maintain relayers on up to 20 * 20 = 400x2 = 800 channels. If you are a community member or team that wants to see notional relay for your community, please put an issue on this repository and we will set up a relayer.

How we validate

We aren't most validators. We're operating under the assumption that notional is joining your team, to serve your chain's community. From that point of view, we validate, relay, provide support, and soon, even develop hardware products with the blockchain communities that we serve.

  • Bare Metal
  • On-Premesis
  • Industrial Strength Internet Connections built from residential fiber lines for resilience and easy moves
  • 4G network backup
  • Love, passion, play, and fun: we want to get to know you, your software, and your users and build something better than exists today.

Things we politely decline

  • We do not validate chains requiring Intel's SGX technology
    • We are going to put a validator on SCRT, and try it. We will also be vocal about how it goes and we're building a special-purpose machine for this.
  • We do not validate chains whose development teams do not prioritize user well-being

Partnerships with other validators / relayers

Our technical partners agree to:

  • Mutual Aid Re: Uptime (eg: phone calls to one another)
  • Full commitment to open source, repeatable infrastructure (we only partner with validators who document their infrastructure)
  • Join a Signal chat, since it's not discord
  • Share information about chain launches