Our Commitment to the Growth of a Diverse and Sustainable Blockchain Community
Our Role as a Validator
We started Cryptium Labs in order to offer secure and reliable block validation services to existing and upcoming proof-of-stake networks. As soon as we became active as validators, we realised that many participants regarded delegation as primarily a business opportunity. While we also aim for financial sustainability, we believe that the role that validators can play in this ecosystem is much larger.
We think that the participation of infrastructure operators should not be limited to validating blocks and distributing rewards. We possess an ideal position to interface between protocol designers, developers, other validators, and delegators. Hence, we believe that we should contribute to the ecosystem via research, open-source development tools, and doing our part to cultivate diverse and well-informed validator and delegator communities.
Language is a Barrier to Learning
We, at Cryptium Labs realised through personal experiences and interactions with different communities around the world that language is an obstacle. And not a small one.
Us three, we were privileged enough to have learnt English, meaning that language was never a barrier or constraint to our continuous learning journey. Just like many in the Blockchain space, we assumed that anyone working with software or who had been through higher education was fluent enough in English. And we were terribly wrong, in so many ways.
First, not everyone that worked in software or any other computer science fields has necessarily learned English. There are many geographic areas where even engineering courses are taught in their local languages, including much of central Europe. Second, the worldwide community is diverse enough that there is a significant portion of people who did not go through higher education or the kind of higher education prevalent in the West. Third, we naively assume that everybody understands the things we understand, with the words we use, and grossly overestimate how much context people are sometimes missing.
The meaning of community should not be limited to the few: researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, mostly from North America and Europe, representing famous or infamous projects. For the distributed ledger ecosystem as a whole to succeed, the world must be able to participate.
The success of proof-of-stake networks with stakeholder voting, in particular, is dependent upon the participation of a diverse and well-informed validator and delegator base. At Cryptium Labs, we want to grow the community in a sustainable manner, preserving the technical and economic understanding essential to the long-term success of these protocols. We think this must start by growing diverse and secure validator sets, and involved and informed delegator sets, no matter which network they are participating in. We want to foster healthy growth by helping as much as we can in the learning journey of each participant no matter their background.
