Identification
Company Name: Blockops Network
Founded: 2023
Jurisdictions: Emerging Markets (Africa and LATAM)
Team Size: 9
Website: www.blockops.network
Blockops Network is an enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset infrastructure platform that enables fintechs and institutions to onboard onchain seamlessly, securely, and at scale.
We are structured to support regulated institutional clients, with governance, security, and operational processes designed for long-term reliability.
Background & Experience
Blockops delivers production-grade blockchain infrastructure, specializing in self-hosted web3 infrastructure (nodes, wallets, rollups) and enterprise-grade node management.
The team has hands-on experience operating:
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Full nodes, archive nodes, and indexer nodes for enterprise use cases (with diverse execution and consensus clients)
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High-availability validator infrastructure
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Distributed Validator Technology onboarding for Institutions and Crypto Exchanges
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Monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems, including proprietary tools for automated diagnostics and remediation
Blockops is a trusted operator in distributed validator networks, actively participating in SSV DVT clusters managing 80 validators with multiple independent operators, demonstrating capacity for collaborative, fault-tolerant operations.
Blockops enables institutional Ethereum staking and enterprise blockchain adoption in emerging markets, starting with Africa, by providing robust, secure, and fully operationalized blockchain infrastructure for fintechs and enterprises.
Business Case
Request: Become Identified as a Tier 1 stVault Professional Operator within a DVT cluster category.
Blockops intends to use stVaults to onboard institutional ETH deposits from Africa and other frontier markets, targeting a broad range of institutional participants, including:
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Exchanges operating ETH trading and custody services
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Financial institutions and custodians
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Asset managers and funds
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Fintech and payment platforms exploring ETH staking as part of their offerings
Through stVaults, Blockops provides secure, scalable, and transparent staking solutions for institutional clients, leveraging our deep reach and network in the African ecosystem to generate new revenue opportunities and expand Lido’s market adoption by bringing ETH deposits from Africa and other high-growth regions into the ecosystem.
Ops & Decentralization
Blockops operates Ethereum validator infrastructure with a focus on high operational standards and decentralization. Our approach ensures resilience, security, and distribution of risk while supporting institutional clients in under-represented regions.
Client Diversity
Supports a variety of Ethereum clients across execution and consensus layers:
Execution: Geth, Nethermind
Consensus: Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku
Actively rotates clients for redundancy and decentralization, reducing correlated failure risk.
Participates in DVT (SSV Network) clusters with multiple independent operators, demonstrating ability to coordinate across distributed operators.
Infrastructure Footprint
Hybrid architecture: bare-metal validators for critical workloads, multi-cloud deployments for redundancy
Designed to minimize single-point-of-failure risk
All validator nodes operate on production-grade hardware with dedicated network and power redundancy
Slashing protection enabled across all clusters
Geo & Jurisdictional Distribution
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Validator infrastructure deployed across Africa, with initial rollout in Lagos, and expansion planned to East, West, and North Africa
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Nodes also deployed in additional global regions to maintain redundancy and cross-border resilience
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Ensures geographically dispersed validator infrastructure, reducing exposure to regional outages or regulatory disruptions
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Aligns with Lido’s decentralization mandate while increasing ETH staking participation from underrepresented regions
High Availability
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100% operator uptime on SSV DVT cluster
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Automated failover across execution and consensus clients
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Redundant networking and power infrastructure
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Validated through onchain metrics and internal monitoring
Monitoring & Incident Response
Blockops operates a state-of-the-art monitoring and incident response infrastructure, combining in-house tooling with open-source solutions to achieve seamless, proactive oversight of all validator nodes.
Key capabilities include:
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Telescope (open-source / in-house): real-time metrics aggregation and visualization for multiple nodes across all clusters, enabling operators to detect anomalies instantly (GitHub)
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nodeoperator.ai integration: AI-driven diagnostic layer that automatically interprets logs, predicts failures, and suggests or executes remediation actions
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Operational efficiency: 100% automated detection, diagnosis, and response workflow across all nodes
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24/7 monitoring of validator health, performance, and consensus participation
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Automated alerts for missed attestations or proposals
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Documented incident response and escalation playbooks, enhanced with intelligent tooling
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Continuous metrics collection and log analysis for proactive issue detection
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Regular testing of recovery procedures to ensure rapid remediation of incidents
This setup gives Blockops a unique edge in reliability and responsiveness, ensuring uptime and validator performance far exceeding standard industry practices.
MEV Posture
Blockops follows a secure, ethical, and institutional-grade MEV strategy, designed to maximize staking yield without compromising validator performance or network integrity:
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Integration with vetted MEV-Boost relays for secure block proposals
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No-risk MEV extraction policy: strictly avoids front-running or harmful ordering strategies
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Real-time monitoring of MEV activities through Telescope, with AI diagnostics via NodeOperator.ai to detect anomalies or relay issues
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Supports institutional clients by providing transparent and auditable MEV revenue reporting
Links
Website: https://www.blockops.network
X: www.x.com/blockopsx
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/blockopsnetwork
Docs: https://docs.blockops.network
Github: Blockops Network · GitHub