Polkachu Blogs - Validator

Validator's Dilemma

Validator's Dilemma

By Polkachu Team | 2022-08-20

Validator's Dilemma: In a perfectly competitive market where validators do not collude, individual validators choose the cheapest and most performant data center providers. As a result, the network is worse...

Polkachu's Infrastructure Support for the Cosmos Ecosystem

Polkachu's Infrastructure Support for the Cosmos Ecosystem

By Polkachu Team | 2022-05-25

Polkachu is a trusted validators on proof-of-stake blockchains. We are also a major infrastructure provider for these projects, especially in the Cosmos Ecosystem.

Expand Root Storage Volume on a Hetzner VPS

Expand Root Storage Volume on a Hetzner VPS

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-26

Many node operators use Hetzner VPS to operate a node. Because blockchain requires much storage, the hard disk space typically becomes the bottleneck for many node operators. They can always...

9 Memes to Win Delegators and Influence Whales

9 Memes to Win Delegators and Influence Whales

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-18

The only thing that matters in the validator game is dank memes. Since we have received so much community support, it is time to give back by revealing the darkest...

Holy Trinity: A System Approach to Tendermint-Based Chain Validation

Holy Trinity: A System Approach to Tendermint-Based Chain Validation

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-14

Now we are actively validating on close to 20 Tendermint-based chains, we feel that it is a good time to summarize our system approach to Tendermint-based chain validation. For one...

5 Ways to Dox Pupmøs

5 Ways to Dox Pupmøs

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-12

Pupmøs is an anonymous validator that all other validators love to hate. To help our validator community, we are offering 5 ways to dox Pupmøs. You are welcome.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Becoming a Top-Rank Validator

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Becoming a Top-Rank Validator

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-03

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Becoming a Top-Rank Validator

Our Node Snapshot Architecture

Our Node Snapshot Architecture

By Polkachu Team | 2022-03-18

In the past few months, we have developed a robust infrastructure to take and host node snapshots for 3 Substrate-based blockchains and 16 Tendermint-based blockchains. Our scripts are open-sourced and...

Substrate vs. Cosmos SDK from a Validator Perspective

Substrate vs. Cosmos SDK from a Validator Perspective

By Polkachu Team | 2022-03-11

It is always interesting to compare Cosmos SDK and Substrate. Both are giants in the land of crypto, each with thriving ecosystems of devs and users. We Polkachu have been...