Starchain Capital Backed Validator Castlenode Strategically Partners with Band Protocol
Band Protocol is proud to announce that Castlenode, an industry-leading validator backed by Starchain Capital, the investors behind Coinbase, Maker, Cosmos, and more. Castlenode provides validator support for top networks based on Cosmos technology such as Cosmos Hub, Terra and IRIS with over $4.5M in total value secured with 99.99% uptime.
Castlenode is an established infrastructure provider for proof-of-stake blockchains with 20 years of team experience in high-availability hosting for websites, servers and cloud services. Their team is composed of a lean group of dedicated experts, committed to providing secure, state-of-the-art blockchain infrastructure — Gautier Marin, one of the first Tendermint engineers and Cosmos contributors, and Antony Girault, a highly respected IT expert in France who was previously HSBC’s security system architect and CTO/CIO of Overblog & Teads which recently sold for $285M.
“Castlenode is excited to support Band Protocol, a decentralized cross-chain oracle framework built on the Cosmos-SDK, who we see being one of the largest players in the Cosmos ecosystem. Band Protocol builds secure bridges from blockchain applications to real-world data in a community-curated approach that stays true to the ethos of decentralization.”
Gautier Marin, Co-Founder of Castlenode
“Castlenode marks another reputable validator in the Cosmos ecosystem that has joined hands with Band Protocol. We are grateful for their strategic support to provide secure staking infrastructure for BandChain, decentralizing and strengthening the network.
Soravis Srinawakoon, CEO & Co-Founder of Band Protocol
To have the long term support from an early-stage Tendermint engineer is validation that Band Protocol is going in the right direction as a key player in the decentralized application space. We look forward to working closely with Castlenode as Band Protocol expands into the Cosmos ecosystem and interoperability space.
Castlenode joins us as one of the 20+ top validators to decentralize BandChain and become one of the data validators on the network. We look forward to connecting smart contracts with external data and APIs through BandChain at the highest level of decentralization and security to ensure that all of our blockchain and enterprise partners can use data easily and securely.
About Castlenode
Castlenode is one of the top validators in the Cosmos ecosystem. Our strategy is a bit different than most validators, in that we don’t try to validate as many networks as possible. Instead, we restrict the networks we support to the ones in which we really believe. For these networks, we offer the highest quality of infrastructure. Check out our website for more information on our team and validator setup.
About Band Protocol
Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that aggregates and connects real-world data and APIs to smart contracts. Blockchains are great at immutable storage and deterministic, verifiable computations — however, they cannot securely access data available outside the blockchain networks. Band Protocol enables smart contract applications such as DeFi, prediction markets, and games to be built on-chain without relying on the single point of failure of a centralized oracle. Band Protocol is backed by a strong network of stakeholders including Sequoia Capital, one of the top venture capital firms in the world, and the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.
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