As discussed in the Solana Wave 3 onboarding criteria, both of the new onboarded operators should commit to working with the Lido on Solana team to reach a baseline level of performance. After analyzing cluster-wide metrics across the past ten epochs (~ 1 month of data), the Lido on Solana and NOM team determined that Uptime, Vote Success Rate, and Block Production Rate are appropriate metrics to track for these new operators.
During the coming months the Lido on Solana team will monitor the performance of H2O Nodes and Kukis Global’s validators to confirm they both can sustainably operate performant validators that will reliably score above the determined metrics over the long-term. In the event that either operator does not operate a reliably performant validator, the waitlisted operator Cryptomanufaktur will be proposed as a replacement.
Upon the team’s analysis, the following standards were determined to be an appropriate level of performance for operators to work towards:
- Uptime above the cluster average - 1 standard deviation
- Vote Success Rate above the cluster average - 1 standard deviation
- Block Production Rate above the cluster average - 1 standard deviation
Both H2O Nodes and Kukis Global will publicly commit in this thread to working with the Lido on Solana team to demonstrate they can reliably operate high quality Solana validators as members of the operator set and achieve these performance criteria.
The Lido on Solana and Node Operator Management team will provide an update over the coming months on both operators performance, while also taking into account the pending Protocol Upgrade Proposal.