Canton Network: Validators Based on Contribution
Summary
The Canton Network is changing how it selects Super Validators, moving away from a model based solely on staking large amounts of capital. Instead, Canton Network prioritizes validators who demonstrate significant contribution, such as early involvement, shipping products, and onboarding users. This approach ensures that alignment is based on active responsibility and work done, rather than just financial size, fulfilling the original promise of blockchain accessibility.
On Validators, Access, and Alignment
In a recent Quadrillions episode, Yuval Rooz spoke about what validator participation should look like in practice, and how that connects to the original promise of blockchain.
On many networks, becoming a validator effectively requires staking tens of millions, which excludes the very teams this technology was meant to open doors for.
Canton takes a different approach.
Super Validators on Canton Network are not selected simply because they can post the most capital, but because they add the most value: smaller crypto firms and operators that showed up early, shipped, onboarded users, and put real work into the network.
The core principle is straightforward:
alignment should come from contribution and responsibility, not just balance sheet size.
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