# Node Operator Admission: FreshLIDO

**URL:** <https://research.lido.fi/t/node-operator-admission-freshlido/129>\
**Category:** Proposals\
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/node-operator-admission-freshlido/129 "2021-01-07T23:20:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gaia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/research.lido.fi/gaia/32/2447_2.png) [@Gaia](https://research.lido.fi/u/Gaia)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/node-operator-admission-freshlido/129/1 "2021-01-07T23:20:12Z")

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Lido DAO, the proposal to add FreshLIDO as a node operator is live and can be found here:

- **Organization name:** FreshLIDO
- **Organization website:** Temporary site (we will have a FreshLIDO specific one, such as [FreshLUNA.com](http://FreshLUNA.com)) [https://mitera.net](https://mitera.net/)
- **Organization Github:** github[.]com/Gaia
- **Organization social channels:** [Twitter] twitter[.]com/wholesum), [Telegram] (t[.]me/onegaia)  
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- **Organization location:** Netherlands
- **Organization size:** 2-10
- **Brief description of organization:** FreshLIDO is part of the Fresh\* family of validators, operated by Mitera BV, a private investment fund established in 2014.
- **Brief description of performance track record:** Our fund started investing in crypto assets in 2014, in 2016 we began operating some maternodes, in June 2018 we started validating on Tezos, and currently we validate on over a dozen other chains.
- **Overview of supported networks:** Tezos, Terra, Cosmos, Secret Network, Akash, Avalanche, MATIC, NEAR, Skale, Harmony, QTUM, ETH2
- **Motivation for application:** Liquid staking prevents stake centralization towards lower fee providers, such as exchanges and it is a necessary component of a healthy PoS ecosystem. Our assessment is that Lido is the most advanced ETH2 staking protocol with which this goal can be accomplished, e.g., more decentralization.
- **Security set up for ETH staking:** We are already running ETH2 privately on dozens of validators on a mix of cloud and baremetal nodes. Our validator’s addresses can be provided upon request. Here is one of them:  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/lido/original/1X/0477d50ccc11e909d9798f99af0a27b1e10bd7ab.png)
- **History of participating in ETH testnet:** We participated in several ETH testnets, not to mention in the original ICO.

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**Author:** ![FelixLts](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/research.lido.fi/felixlts/32/379_2.png) [@FelixLts](https://research.lido.fi/u/FelixLts)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/node-operator-admission-freshlido/129/2 "2021-02-17T10:30:11Z")

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Hi @Gaia, we have devised a new process related to the admission of node operators, please check it out here: [Node Operator Sub Governance & New Node Operator Application Process](https://research.lido.fi/t/node-operator-sub-governance-new-node-operator-application-process/344)