Node Operator Admission: Twinstake as stVault Professional Operator

Node Operators stVaults Identification
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Twinstake – stVault Professional Operator Application

1. Identification

Twinstake is a leading institutional, non-custodial staking and restaking provider, serving custodians, ETFs, hedge funds, VCs, asset managers, and other financial institutions.
We operate multi-region, multi-provider validator infrastructure, with SOC 2–aligned security, automated operations, and institutional SLAs.
Twinstake runs high-performance validators across leading blokchains (20+) including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and TON.

2. Business Case

As a Professional Operator, Twinstake brings:

  • Proven institutional validator operations across major PoS networks

  • Distribution into Tier-1 institutional clients, including significant foothold in the ETF and hedge fund space enabling stVault adoption as well as opportunities across our client list

  • Integrations with Twinstake’s institutional staking platform and restaking products, supporting reporting and enhanced analytics position Twinstake as an ideal partner to institutional staking flows

Twinstake aims to accelerate stVault usage by combining operational expertise with institutional market access, and leveraging our experience delivering enterprise grade solutions for staking to cross-sell Lido v3 vaults.

3. Ops & Decentralisation

Twinstake manages its validator operation with maximum emphasis on secure operations with robust procedures to avoid slashing. Whilst our infrastructure is designed to maximise performance, safety adn security of funds is always our primary consideration:

  • Fully non-custodial key management

  • Client diversity across CL/EL implementations through the use of Vouch.

  • Anti-slashing software Dirk used

  • Bare-metal and multi-cloud infrastructure in independent European data centers

  • Remote signing, hardened environments, and strict access controls

  • 24/7 on-call procedures with worldwide SME coverage across timezones

  • State-of-the-art monitoring and alerting with robust escalation procedures

MEV Policy

Twinstake uses a diversified MEV relay set with safe fallbacks to local block building to ensure proposer liveness. We also offer clients the ability to run OFAC compliant relays only.

4. Governance & Compliance

Twinstake adheres to institutional governance and security standards:

  • SOC 2 Type I & II audited

  • Independent audits, security portal, and responsible disclosure program

  • Slashing insurance

  • Non-custodial architecture

5. Links

Website: twinstake .io
Compliance: www.twinstake .com/about-us/compliance

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Thanks for applying, it’s great to see you moving forward with onboarding as a stVaults Node Operator.

The stVaults Committee has started the assessment process, and we’ll keep you updated as things progress.

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As a delegate of the stVaults Committee, I am posting to confirm that the relevant ET motions establishing Twinstake’s status as an stVaults Identified Node Operator have now been enacted.

Following the committee’s assessment of Twinstake’s application, Twinstake has been assigned to the Professional stVault Operator category under the stVaults framework. This assignment reflects the committee’s evaluation of Twinstake’s operational readiness, infrastructure capabilities, and business case.