if you'd like to view the monad network itself... in action, visit - 170 validators - 400ms block times - validators in 27 countries, 53 cities - validators ran on consumer grade hardware - zero validators ran by the monad foundation the network is alive.show more

ETHEREUM DESTROYS COMPETITION WITH 897,000 VALIDATORS According to data... from Chainspect, the Ethereum network boasts more than 897,000 validators, distributed across the globe. This dramatically outpaces practically all other blockchain networks, the biggest of which typically have just a few thousand validators. Both Algorand and Cardano Foundation rank highly in the list but lag well behind $ETH itself. At the same time, however, Ethereum's dominance of DeFi TVL and stablecoin supply has been eroded slightly.show more

The Ixios mainnet genesis block has been created! Validators... are now in the process of bootstrapping the network. Expect a few days of the bootstrapping process for the network to gain full stability. After the network is bootstrapped, block explorers will begin displaying mainnet data.show more

CrossFi Chain EVM Testnet is Now Live #1 Initiative... for validators We’re glad to announce the first Testnet initiative for validators! Supported by CoinList This initiative aims to create a robust and secure network by engaging validators who possess the necessary technical expertise and resources to help ensure the smooth functioning and stability of the EVM Testnet. 🔹Start day: February 20 🔹Duration: 3 months 🔹Goal: Be in the top 64 🔹Prize pool for this initiative: $2.4M in MPX coins ➡️ Join CrossFi Chain EVM Testnet right now: #EVMTestnet #crossfishow more

Subnets, Validators, Miners, Builders. 150+ Hackers participating in the... Hackathon. Bittensor’s brightest minds on stage. $TAO is accelerating. April 25–27, Austin TX. Last Tickets:show more

TELEGRAM FOUNDER PRAISES TON BLOCKCHAIN'S DECENTRALISATION Telegram Messenger founder... Pavel Pavel Durov is back in action bull-posting about the TON 💎 L1 network. He just cited $TON's ~400 network validators, distributed across 6 continents' calling TON "one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet". Durov recently announced plans for Telegram to become TON's single biggest validator, surpassing the TON Foundation itseld.show more

Solana’s active validator count has fallen from 2,100 to... ~800 in the last 3 years. Why? > small-mid size validators are being pruned by Solana since April 2025 > inflation rewards dropping from 6% to 1.5% > SFDP decreased stake matching from 100% to 50%, this will trend to 0% Validators are dying from the burden of their huge operating costs. This is where Toby's OpenMEV comes in. > OpenMEV is the new yield layer > accrues and distributes on-chain rewards to validators and stakers > cuts off malicious MEVs > promotes Good MEVs that makes Solana efficient > makes on-chain activities safer > validators earns more from OpenMEV rewards Staker wins. Validator wins. Solana wins. Toby wins. You are not prepared for the new yield primitive. 😏 OpenMEV.show more

🚀600 MILLION LAUNCHES!🚀 600,000,000 times users worldwide launched Watcher... Node - turning their smartphones into decentralized storage validators! Join the network that will define how data is stored, secured, and accessed for generations to come 🔗show more

We’re going beyond EVM for the first time —... and our next destination is Solana! 💜💚 ⏱ 400ms block times (and getting faster). 🎨 Home of NFTs, memecoins & creativity. 💸 Fees around $0.0025 per tx. 🛡 Secured by 1,000+ validators. New chain. Same mission. Let's Bond! 🧑‍🚀🤝show more

Polkadot Moves To Overhaul Staking The Polkadot (Polkadot) community... is voting on a proposal that would require validators to self stake at least 10,000 $DOT. The reform is designed to pave the way for major staking upgrades across the network. If approved, nominators could eventually become unslashable while unbonding times may fall from roughly 28 days to as little as 24 hours.show more

Berachain Project Review 🐻⛓️ Berachain Foundation 🐻⛓ is an... EVM identical L1 aligning security and liquidity, powered by Proof of Liquidity. Backed by Brevan Howard Digital Framework Ventures Polychain & Hack VC Proof of Liquidity? - creates a cooperative economy that rewards working capital by aligning incentives across the network Core Principles 🍯 Defragmenting liquidity Simple DeFi legos (AMM, Perps, Lend) and pools built into the chain and powered by validators 🍯 Turbocharging Applications Validators direct network emissions towards decentralized dApps building on Berachain 🍯 Highly Accessible EVM-identical blockchain compatible with all existing ethereum ERCs and opcodes Why do we need it? ✔️ Solve stake centralization ✔️ Systematically build liquidity ✔️ Align protocols and validators Always DYOR, this is not financial advice! #BERA #Layer1 #ProofOfLiquidity #Liquidity #Security #Protocols #Dapps #EVM and so much more with #Berachainshow more

POLKADOT IS CRYPTO'S MOST DECENTRALISED BLOCKCHAIN According to Chainspect,... Polkadot is currently the blockchain industry's most decentralised network, with a Nakamoto coefficient of 178. The Nakamoto coefficient represents the minimum number of independent entities (such as validators or miners) required to compromise at least one essential subsystem, such as seizing 51% of the hashing power, thereby successfully launching an attack on a blockchain network.show more

It's here - Avail's Clash of Nodes incentivized testnet... is officially up and running! 🌟 This is a major step towards Mainnet, with a chance for validators, light clients, and everyone to test our network, earn points, and more. Ready for a journey? Here's what's ahead... We’re calling all validators, light client enthusiasts, and blockchain buffs -- Clash of Nodes is your playground. Rack up points, top the leaderboard, and embrace the challenges for a mix of fun and potential perks to come. We’re looking for those who’ll step up to the challenge: • Validators who consistently validate the chain throughout the testing period • Full nodes and light clients who complete challenges to mimic a world full of rollups on Avail • Brave validators and participants who help us simulate disaster scenarios Dive into the Details: Here's a snapshot of the specific challenges that await in Clash of Nodes. 🛡️ Gladiator's Entry: Show your mettle by becoming a block authoring champion. Outlast and outperform, one block at a time. The more you author, the higher you score. ⚖️ Noble Warrior: Uphold the validator's code. Stay active, avoid penalties, and keep your record clean. Honor earns points, while lapses cost you. 🔍 Finding Yourself: Embrace the quest of self-discovery by adding and verifying your identity. Prove who you are and carve your name in the annals of Avail. Each challenge is your chance to shine and shape the future of Avail. Here's the game plan: 1️⃣ The first invites will go to our existing validators from the Kate Testnet. Their unwavering support earns them the vanguard spots. 2️⃣ To the newcomers: Every validator will get their turn as we're setting the stage for 300 in this testnet. 3️⃣ We’ll share more challenges on how anybody of any technical ability can participate. Remember, we're still in test mode. Expect the occasional hiccup during the testing phase. Your insights are essential to building a robust Mainnet - even if that means taking on some big bugs. 🚧 To every blockchain visionary, from validators to app rollup devs, you're the architects of this rollup revolution. We’re excited to see what you build, and how you compete. Read more: 🛠️🚀show more

🚨 The wait is over 🚨 Bitcoin's institutional gateway,... CBTC is live on Canton Network's mainnet 1:1 backed, privacy-enabled, and secured by validators managing billions in assets It's not just another wrapped token, it's the infrastructure for on-chain financial marketsshow more

🚨 BREAKING: ETHEREUM TARGETS ZK-BASED L1 VALIDATION BY 2026... Ethereum Foundation member ladislaus.eth says Ethereum $ETH will shift block validation toward zero-knowledge proofs. The move replaces full transaction re-execution with cryptographic proof verification. Validators would rely on cryptographic proofs rather than replaying transactions. The change is outlined under the L1-zkEVM 2026 roadmap. Ethereum’s first L1-zkEVM workshop is set for Feb. 11, 2026.show more

Router Chain's Testnet Mandara is now LIVE! The Era... of IDApps (Interoperable dApps) is here. Build your first-ever IDApp with our Testnet Mandara. Get Started: Testnet Mandara also allows external validators to participate in the network for the first time. This marks a significant milestone for Router Protocol, paving the way towards achieving true decentralization. What's Next? - Router Chain's first-ever public cross-chain transaction will take place anytime soon - The launch of our Incentivised and Gamified Testnet Mandara for Devs, Ecosystem Partners, Validators and Web3 users is scheduled to go live this coming June - Selected Ecosystem Partners will deploy their dApps on Mandara Testnet and showcase them as part of the Gamified Testnet Mandara - Our IDAPPathon, an online hackathon tailored for Interoperable dApps, will commence on 7th June. Registrations are already open ( - Look forward to the unveiling of our in-house IDApps such as Ping Pong, TExchange, Voyager, and more, all set to launch on our Testnet - We're preparing to share an updated roadmap to outline our progressive journey; keep an eye out as it will be published in the upcoming days - We will also be onboarding more Validators in the coming days Read more about Router Chain's Testnet Mandara here:show more

XRP Ledger Set For Major Feature Boost A major... $XRP Ledger upgrade could move closer to activation in about two weeks as validators prepare to vote on a package of new amendments, per XRPL validator Vet. The proposal introduces batch transactions, confidential transfers, sponsored fees, and permission delegation. According to Vet, the release also includes performance improvements and bug fixes aimed at making the network faster and more reliable.show more

Category Labs is proud to introduce Cadence, our multiple-concurrent-proposers... (MCP) consensus protocol that matches the optimal good-case latency of single-leader consensus while supporting arbitrarily short block intervals. When combined with BTX, our design for encrypted mempools, this represents a significant step towards solving the problem of MEV at the protocol level. In nearly every blockchain today, a single party ends up in control of each block: it decides which transactions get in, and can reorder them at will. MCP is the natural fix, but most recent designs pay for it with a separate aggregation phase, adding two extra communication rounds per block. Cadence makes the proposers part of consensus itself. Its fast path finalizes in an optimal three communication rounds, even when proposers are offline. Cadence also offers speculative finality, similar to MonadBFT, after just two rounds, revertible only if a proposer provably equivocated. In a simulation using estimated network delays between Monad mainnet's 200 globally distributed validators, finalization takes 219 ms on average, speculative finality 167 ms. Cadence pushes pipelining to the extreme: each block is proposed and finalized in its own independent consensus instance, without waiting on preceding blocks. The block interval then becomes a protocol parameter that can be arbitrarily small. At our initial target of 100 ms, a transaction waits on average just 50 ms to enter a proposal, and oracle prices, liquidations, and auctions can update every 100 ms. Cadence dynamically throttles the opening of new instances to bound the number of outstanding slots even during periods of network instability. When the network is healthy (under synchrony), a transaction included by an honest proposer can be neither dropped nor deferred (short-term censorship resistance), and no proposer can see the others' proposals in time to react (hiding). We prove both, together with safety and liveness under partial synchrony at the optimal 3f+1 fault bound. The Cadence protocol is modular: each module is simple on its own, and any of them can be swapped out without touching the rest. Cadence also builds on components already being deployed: proposals are disseminated as erasure-coded chunks over Deterministic RaptorCast, now rolling out on Monad, and validators vote on proposal digests, so voting does not wait for the full data to arrive. Start with the interactive tutorial: Full paper: Joint work by Kushal Babel, Fatima Elsheimy, Lioba Heimbach, Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai, Tobias Klenze, Jovan Komatovic, Jason Milionis, Mike Setrin, and Victor Shoup.show more