# \[proposal\] Validator Candidate **URL:** \ **Category:** Staking\ **Created:** [May 24, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643 "2020-05-24T06:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/1 "2020-05-24T06:03:33Z")
Hey Node-Operators, Please post your validator website in this thread. You are also free to introduce yourself. **Note that this topic does not mean endorsement by the Harmony Team. Each user is encouraged to perform careful due diligence on every validator candidate.** ---
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/2 "2020-05-24T06:06:04Z")
@hashparty @winahyos @lij have moved the topic here. @OgreAbroad @C10NU7 @anttu @Lucian @JB273 feel free to introduce your validator here 🚀🚀🚀 ---
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/3 "2020-05-24T06:25:47Z")
Here is a [list](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ut3Lz7IrENsykmn4MrMw3BSPljTT6U8uIsuJw-eHuI/edit#gid=1566087667) of 43 validators who are eligible for next epoch with superb uptime by the time of posting. > ---
**Author:** ![RoboValidator](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/robovalidator/32/424_2.png) [@RoboValidator](https://talk.harmony.one/u/RoboValidator)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/4 "2020-05-24T17:43:42Z")
Hi, I’m Samuel and I run RoboValidator. You can read more about the validator here [http://robovalidator.com/](http://robovalidator.com/). After I overslept and lost out on bidding for three of four slots during the first epoch for open staking, I became determined to never lose out on a slot again and resolved myself to write a program that would perform the bidding for me 24/7 and that’s where the concept and name came to be. A little bit about myself: I am a software engineer working in Silicon Valley likely very close to Harmony HQ. I first learned about Harmony from the Binance IEO and became convinced this project was worth investing in after seeing the impressive talent on the team and signed up to run two foundational nodes thereafter. I am running the validator node mainly for fun and am excited to be a part of the Harmony community. I am also looking forward to write some DApps running on Harmony in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/5 "2020-05-24T17:45:53Z")
must check this guys’ website, it’s beautiful. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/723271d389d6ad6e332bb59c4a2d2c82baab795e.png) ---
**Author:** ![hashparty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/hashparty/32/384_2.png) [@hashparty](https://talk.harmony.one/u/hashparty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/6 "2020-05-24T23:52:16Z")
Thx @Maggie, Our validator is just getting stable and starting to hit 100% block signing. We have 3 nodes located in EU/US/ASIA so I expect uptime to be very solid going forward. I am focusing on building an Elixir library for Harmony before building a site, so the best place to keep up is on github: [https://github.com/hashparty1](https://github.com/hashparty1) and twitter: [https://twitter.com/0xhashparty](https://twitter.com/0xhashparty) 🥩 🥩Thanks and Happy Staking!! 🥩 🥩 ---
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/7 "2020-05-25T02:20:35Z")
![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/b98d0dbd9f5937ded0be79169c98872c4a655f45.jpeg) BigB - [SmartStake.io](http://SmartStake.io) SmartStake is a transparent, professional, and feature rich staking service provider. BigB with 20+ years of IT experience is the operator of the service. Besides staking service and active participation in the community, Smart Stake builds easy to understand and user centric tools for all network participants. We introduce new performance metrics to simplify assessment of a validator’s node health, performance, and rate of returns. We have already created a basic dashboard for Harmony at [harmony.smartstake.io](http://harmony.smartstake.io). We will add many more features to the dashboard in near future. Our validator has been running with 100% uptime since its election. We use an active-active redundancy with two different cloud hosting providers to ensure high availability. Our node health is visible in near-realtime on the dashboard for everyone to see. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/maggie/32/171_2.png) [@Maggie](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Maggie)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/8 "2020-05-25T03:17:21Z")
[https://harmony.smartstake.io/](https://harmony.smartstake.io/) ![image|690x342 validator portal built by smart stake](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/9b3d916586eb04abb8bcf73695ff52e6505c3f05.png) ---
**Author:** ![pops](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/pops/32/4353_2.png) [@pops](https://talk.harmony.one/u/pops)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/9 "2020-05-25T07:51:20Z")
Thank you @Maggie for the invite! ![1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/64ea4469ce98b36df6fdbad5d79a28736d960725.jpeg) **We are P-OPS!** Harmony’s **#1 Community** run validator. - 🤝 Our **Team** comprises of 8 **globally located** Blockchain enthusiasts who have been helping out Harmony Community for over a year to setup their nodes (Foundation, Pangaea, OpenStaking …), and producing explainers and documentation for the benefit of all. - 🖥 We have setup our Validator using **high-end infrastructure** with **24x7 monitoring** and **backups** and secured it to the highest standards. - 🔨 Based on our deep know-how of the Harmony Protocol we have developed **algorithms** to automatically **adjust** our validator’s **bids** close to the **effective** median, to **consistently** get **elected** across epochs and thereby ensuring the **highest rewards for our delegators**. - 🏆 : We have been recognized for our community contributions by the official harmony team. > P-OPS are the special forces of Harmony. They execute at an absurd efficiency and speed and are my first call to get the job done - **Li Jiang** COO, Harmony > Pangaea Ops Captains are the most dedicated, technical and diligent. They are the core of Harmony’s network and community." **Stephen Tse** CEO, Harmony > Best blockchain tech community I’ve seen! Without P-OPS, Harmony won’t be making such progress so fast.- \*\* **Rongjian Lan** \*\* CTO, Harmony To view more testimonials, please visit our website [https://pops.one](https://pops.one) Have a question for us? Feel free to reach out our [Telegram channel](https://t.me/POPS_Team_Validator) ---
**Author:** ![ChainodeTech](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/chainodetech/32/433_2.png) [@ChainodeTech](https://talk.harmony.one/u/ChainodeTech)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/10 "2020-05-25T07:56:57Z")
Founded in early 2019, Chainode Tech is a young, extremely motivated and experienced team based in Zug, Switzerland, that is focused on providing staking and validator services on cutting edge Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) protocols. We joined the Harmony Protocol project since the early days first as an investor, and then as Foundational Nodes, P-OPS team member and contributor to its ecosystem. Since the Open Staking started, we have constantly delivered top performance. A few infos about our set-up can be found below: ✅ Redundant validator nodes for high uptime ✅ HSM based authentication for better security ✅ Low fee (4,9 %) ✅ Active key management for higher rewards, constantly ✅ All our nodes are very powerful and are chunking through blocks thus providing guaranteed uptime \> 99,9% since the beginning of the epoch 🔎 We love transparency and we want to provide this to our delegators. This is why, for a better communication and to be closer to our team we also set-up a telegram channel. Please feel free to join, we are happy to answer your questions and exchange ideas: @ChainodeTech (Telegram) 🙌 The long run matters the most and we are making sure to be here for a long time. Reason why, we do not only act as a top validator in the Harmony Ecosystem, but as a contributor as well. A few of our main contributions can be found in the visual below. 👇 👍 If you like our team, you can delegate to our validator here 👉 [bit.ly/2LFQTmf](http://bit.ly/2LFQTmf) 👉 More information about our team can be found on our official website: [https://chainode.tech](https://chainode.tech) Last but not least we want to thank to all our delegators for staking with our team 🤝 ![photo_2020-05-24 09.18.35](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/989fabf5760bd8c276566114a1b89fb3f9f8096d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Sudeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sudeep](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Sudeep)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/11 "2020-05-25T08:47:19Z")
Hello everyone, We are **iBriz-Validator** , an experienced blockchain team based in San Francisco and Nepal. We have been actively participating in different activities with Harmony-Pangaea as well as running a node since Testnet with 100% uptime. Now in Open Staking, we guarantee you maximum returns and have high uptime for the node. We also have a bot in Telegram- “Harmony Alert Bot” which helps to track the performance of Validators and Delegators on mainnet. Harmony Alert Bot notifies of: - Reward Distribution - Epoch Change - Alert for Median Stake Changes - Alert for Slashing - Faucet - Validator Status Find our bot: [https://bit.ly/harmonyAlertBot](https://bit.ly/harmonyAlertBot) Connect with us at Twitter for more information: [https://twitter.com/HarmonyIbriz](https://twitter.com/HarmonyIbriz) ---
**Author:** ![Gaia](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/gaia/32/124_2.png) [@Gaia](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Gaia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/13 "2020-05-25T17:22:45Z")
![stakethefuture-300px](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/d36b956785d73ed4812eb2dd52c1f74e90cd8582.png) FreshONES is part of the Fresh family of validators (FreshATOMS, FreshLUNA, FreshTEZOS). We have been running masternodes since 2016 and been validating since June 2018. Our team has more than 30 years experience in infrastructure and DevOps. We are Foundational Node runners since block 0 and an official Harmony Staking Partner. Although we are not a Harmony whale, our operation runs on double overprovisioned servers on bare metal, meaning 2 machines, each with 6 physical Xeon cores. You can [read more about our infrastructure on our site](http://FreshONES.net). We actively manage the number of keys we sign with to optimize the yield. Currently our fee is 2.5% for a limited time. Pls [get in touch with use via our telegram channel](https://t.me/freshones) to coordinate delegating to us so that we can achieve the optimal slot position. None of this stuff makes sense to you? No problem. Came over to our telegram chat (link above) and we will be happy to answer all your questions 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/shez/32/449_2.png) [@shez](https://talk.harmony.one/u/shez)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/15 "2020-05-25T19:30:34Z")
Hi Thanks for starting the thread. I’m shez that is from Staking4All team. I represent a team of blockchain experts that has join harmony community to help build on Harmony Here is some of our achievements 🔸 Been part of the open staking testnet community and running nodes to learn the ropes 🔸 We built the first validator bot when there was no bounty. Yip…we built it for the community 😁 🔸 We built the first tipping bot when there was no bounty. Yip…we built it to help build on harmony 😁 🔸 We built a telegram hashbet game. Yip…we built it cause we thought it would be cool 🕶 🔸 The hashbet game and tipping bot in first two days of being launched created over 1 000 on chain transactions, to date a total of 10 982 trnsactions 🔸 2nd place winners for a validator bot 😀 Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/staking4all](https://twitter.com/staking4all) Stake 🥩 for us [here](https://staking.harmony.one/validators/one1dcmp24uqgwszcvmm8n6r5dvhqhuukdj86pkg6n) ![TipBot](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/343284855671eb2ea1c52ff62dcef622046df935.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![granny](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/granny/32/451_2.png) [@granny](https://talk.harmony.one/u/granny)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/16 "2020-05-26T07:10:43Z")
Thank you @Maggie for sharing this thread. 👵🏻 **Granny** is a validator exclusive to the Harmony Protocol, meaning she dedicates all her time, love, and attention to staking $ONE only. We are currently a team of two with a decade of experience in cloud infrastructure, with specific focus on security and performance. We’ve managed large-scale systems for the US govt and worked at companies like Google to hone our skills with the best tools and practices. We were also one of the first miners of Ethereum when it launched in 2015; Harmony excites us just as much with its bright future 😊 We’ve staked since day 1 of staking launch with Harmony and plan to be here for the long run. Granny still has many, many years left in her. ❤ If you love your granny, you can delegate to her **[HERE](https://staking.harmony.one/validators/one13jhphrfzf2qhexqgaqufu76hg6ag934fn4rhhj)** 👵🏻 Official website: **[https://granny.one](https://granny.one)** Thank you for delegating with Granny. ![granny.one-logo-v1-png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/88187cd56c1897b5bc83c6f52c79a6e08131b147.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jacksteroo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/jacksteroo/32/15609_2.png) [@Jacksteroo](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Jacksteroo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/17 "2020-05-26T18:46:22Z")
![30M Harmony ONE](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/8781206255cc879ce263bc8ff73dc70f95657cbf.jpeg) We are a **Harmony Foundational Node Operator from Day ONE** running multiple Harmony validators **since mid-2019**. We aim to **Maximize Effective Staking Returns** by active allocations of Harmony’s validator slots with an auto-bidder and have complete **Cloud-native automations** with a hybrid Data Center setup. We are an Experienced Proof-of-Stake Validator. Validator and Buidler with multiple blockchains including **Harmony, Cosmos, Terra** and an operator for **Ripple (XRP)**. Based in Silicon Valley. Our Validator is trusted by a growing community of token holders **surpassing 100 Delegators** who support and trust us by delegating their **30 Million Harmony $ONE tokens** in less than a week with **🌐 KysenPool Dragon 🐉**!!! > 💥Increasing Uptimes maintained over 99% > 💥Top 2 Expected Return most recent 4 epochs > 💥Validator runs in Dual-active mode for 100% block signatures > 💥Validator setup across Multiple Geographic Locations > 💥Server recovery in 15 minutes while Active Signer continues > 💥Engineering Team coverage in multiple time zones Stake with 🌐 KysenPool Dragon 🐉 at [https://bit.ly/2XiLnf2](https://bit.ly/2XiLnf2) ![logo-full-globe-dragon](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/34f6377c6e3343951df3946270914d84a83019e2.jpeg) **Official Channels** _Twitter:_[_twitter.com/KysenPool_](https://twitter.com/KysenPool) _Facebook:_[_facebook.com/kysenpool_](https://facebook.com/kysenpool) _Medium:_[_medium.com/kysenpool_](https://medium.com/kysenpool) _Telegram:_[_https://t.me/kysenpool_](https://t.me/kysenpool) ---
**Author:** ![humpty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/439d5e/32.png) [@humpty](https://talk.harmony.one/u/humpty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/18 "2020-05-27T02:44:50Z")
![Harmony_info_Banner – 14](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/68359aac0b5246c3234c82f7a37e872ef1dfff44.png) [Sesameseed](https://sesameseed.org) is a multichain staking community founded in 2018. Sesameseed’s unique rewards structure, powered by the [SEED rewards token](https://docs.sesameseed.org/what-is-seed-token/), provides stakers better rewards over time. The Sesameseed community earns rewards from multiple blockchains by staking to any of the Sesameseed [SEED nodes](https://medium.com/sesameseedorg/sesameseed-node-operations-model-9e53c4fde87f), or by simply holding SEED. Over 275,000 blockchain addresses contain assets staked to Sesameseed’s nodes and earn SEED daily. - 🤝 Trusted multichain staking [community](https://medium.com/sesameseedorg/sesameseed-community-powered-blockchain-1b9bc0b76b0e). - 💰 Reliably distributing rewards for over 2 years. - 🔨 Developed an optimized staking system. More stakes equal higher rewards. - 🚀 Launched [Sprout](https://sprout.sesameseed.org) on Harmony to provide a simple and secure staking experience. - 🌱 Launched the multichain rewards token SEED, the [first token on Harmony.](https://medium.com/sesameseedorg/harmony-hrc20-seed-5305a9f83c76) - 📈 SEED compounding rewards maximizes your rewards by simply holding it. Read our [one-pager](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mdS942g6GEK7xKxecOFHPjbB3OAn01KH/view). Visit our [website](https://sesameseed.org) to learn more. Join our community on [Telegram](https://t.me/SesameseedOrg). Sign up to [Sprout](https://sprout.sesameseed.org) and start staking today. ![Sesameseed_Harmony_Staking](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/harmony1/original/1X/025aca93055d47ab76cb2311e5459161a291263f.png) ---
**Author:** ![stratworldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@stratworldone](https://talk.harmony.one/u/stratworldone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/19 "2020-05-27T12:26:29Z")
Thanks @Maggie for giving this opportunity to share. Truely excited to become a part of this journey. We are StratWorldOne validator, a motivated team in Silicon Valley and here to contribute our deep expertise of almost 2 decades of Cloud experience. We believe in hard work, collaboration, open vision and empowerment of blockchain and related technology. Our team is dedicated to strive toward providing ~100% uptime so to build robust nodes with automation and security in mind and leverage latest technologies in the infrastructure with the best practices and we love challenges. Feel free to visit [https://stratworldone.com](https://stratworldone.com) to know about us more 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nickv](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/nickv/32/180_2.png) [@nickv](https://talk.harmony.one/u/nickv)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/21 "2020-05-28T14:59:46Z")
This is **Babylonode** 🇺🇦 - a friendly $ONE staking node for everyone, but especially for CIS community. The very important feature of Babylonode 🇺🇦is a support in russian language, that erase the barrier of misunderstanding and misleading for our numerous CIS community. Everyone can check node’s performance by the link - [https://staking.harmony.one/validators/one14xkvsj8gnwl2tnu9wahfru35x8ppveaqdx5cnf](https://staking.harmony.one/validators/one14xkvsj8gnwl2tnu9wahfru35x8ppveaqdx5cnf) Everyone welcome to join, even if you’d like to chose another node(s) you can ask Babylonode 🇺🇦 for support. NV ---
**Author:** ![OgreAbroad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/ogreabroad/32/7169_2.png) [@OgreAbroad](https://talk.harmony.one/u/OgreAbroad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/22 "2020-05-28T20:34:09Z")
Assolutely love the data provided here. Even useful on mobile! Well presented @SmartStake! ---
**Author:** ![OgreAbroad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/ogreabroad/32/7169_2.png) [@OgreAbroad](https://talk.harmony.one/u/OgreAbroad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643/23 "2020-05-28T20:35:54Z")
Champs right here! If it wasnt for this teams professionalism and willingness to educate, many Validators wouldnt be Validators! Massive Kudos POPS! [Next page](https://talk.harmony.one/t/proposal-validator-candidate/643.md?page=2)