Identification
Chainnodes is a Web3 infrastructure provider serving 10,000+ projects, dApps and games with low-latency, archival RPC across Ethereum and major L2s (Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, BSC, Gnosis), handling approximately 1.5 billion requests per day. Beyond RPC, Chainnodes operates validator infrastructure through its Validator-as-a-Service, liquid staking, and solo-staking product lines, and counts teams such as EtherFi, GFX Labs, Oku Trade, Thales and Contango among its users.
We are requesting Basic Identified Node Operator designation, accepting the default Basic tier grid.
Business Case
Chainnodes is building a retail ETH staking product in which user ETH is staked from Avalanche, bridged to Ethereum mainnet, routed through a Mellow Core Vault, and staked into a Chainnodes-operated Lido stVault.
- Projected ETH TVL in first 12 months: 10k-50k
- Audience & markets: Retail & B2B2C, worldwide
- Partners: Diverse, retails focused
- Scale & timeline: Launch targeted in ~1 month
- Fee policy: Not set in stone yet, probably around market value
Ops & Decentralization
- Client mix: EL(geth, Nethermind, besu), CL(Teku, Lighthouse, Grandine) - all combinations in those sets
- Infrastructure: Dedicated / on-premise + Cloud
- Geo / jurisdiction diversity: Europe / North America
- Key management & signing: Vault + Web3Signer
- MEV posture: All relays enabled, including non-censoring