# Validator Introduction - NodeStake **URL:** \ **Category:** Validators\ **Created:** [September 9, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://dydx.forum/t/validator-introduction-nodestake/1138 "2023-09-09T15:10:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NodeStake](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/dydx.forum/nodestake/32/680_2.png) [@NodeStake](https://dydx.forum/u/NodeStake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://dydx.forum/t/validator-introduction-nodestake/1138/1 "2023-09-09T15:10:20Z")
Hello, dYdX team and community, this is **NodeStake**. We are excited to join the dYdX community and make our best contribution. NodeStake is the professional validator, infrastructure provider and IBC relayer. We provided blockchain services since 2017. Up to now, NodeStake has provided services for over 60 chains. - **Entity name and location** NodeStake(Singapore) [https://nodestake.top/](https://nodestake.top/) - **Infrastructure location** North America(USA,Canada), Europe(France,Germany) - **What kind of hardware do you run? Baremetal, cloud-based…? In what geographic regions?** We use AWS and OVH. Dedicated Server: - **Technical make-up of team (elaborate on no. of dev ops engineers, experience, etc.)** Our members are mainly from Asia, including Singapore, China Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. 5 DevOps 2 Community Managers 2 Marketing 1 Product Manager The team members are early blockchain participants. Good knowledge of industry technology, project progress. - **Years of experience** Founded in 2017 by 3 Crypto enthusiast, provided services of mining BTC ETH and some PoW coins. Then we provided node and validator services for some PoS projects. Since 2021, we mainly focus on the validating and infrastructure services in Tendermint based chains. - **What other networks are you running validators for?** Up to now, NodeStake has provided validating and infrastructure services (RPC endpoints, snapshots, IBC relayers) for over 60 chains, such as CosmosHub, Agoric, Archway, Evmos, Neutron, Stride, Acre, Archway, Arkh, Aura, AssetMantle, C4e, Canto, Cheqd, Composable, Decentr, Empower, Gitopia, G-Bridge, Haqq, Humans, Jackal, Kichain, Kyve, Lambda, Loyal, Nomic, Nois, Omniflix, Planq, Point, Pylons, Qwoyn, Realio, Rebus, Rizon, StafiHub, Tenet, Teritori, Terp, UnUniFi, Uptick, Whitewhale. In addition, some testnets which will be upcoming later the year. - **Based on your participation in any previous testnets, mainnets, are there any best practices to be aware of? What are some things that made previous testnets, mainnet launches successful and/or things to avoid that have gone poorly?** - **Do you have a validator voting framework and process?** We actively participate in on-chain governance and engage with communities on Discord. - **Are you planning to play any additional roles in the dYdX ecosystem (e.g. market maker, trader, indexer, front-end, other)?** - **Are there other products or services you want to highlight that could be relevant for dYdX?** Our infrastructures are widely used in the Cosmos Ecosystem communites. - **Any notable contributions in other ecosystems that you would like to highlight for the community?** We are active in multiple Chinese-speaking communities (including over 20,000 people in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore). Share blockchain news. Share legal airdrops. Share our testnets tutorials. Discuss exciting topics together. Website: [https://nodestake.top](https://nodestake.top) Twitter: [https://twitter.com/NodeStake\_top](https://twitter.com/NodeStake_top) Blog: [https://blog.nodestake.top](https://blog.nodestake.top) Github: [nodestake (NodeStake) · GitHub](https://github.com/nodestake)