TIP-067 Part 1 - Add Professional Node Operators to Beta Staker Program

Proposals
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Hey Threshold Community!

Republic Crypto is really excited to be joining the Beta Staker Program.

Our addresses are as follows:
tBTC: 0xD141a4d940347F64610F36035b898E5F48ee1890
TACo: 0x2B51E208ccfC38D0C7c531C92D0178131b8952fc
Staking Provider/ETH Payment: 0xc54238cac19bB8D57a9Bcdd28C3fdd49d82378D8

If anyone has any questions you can reach out to us at runtime-support@republiccrypto.com.

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Hi team,

Stakely information:

tBTC: 0x881323cC72906b0879BF7Fc1f31aeE4193511AfE
TACo: 0xe608678439B8d37C4Fec254D64D9Fc77eb3Ade45
Staking Provider and ETH Payment Address: 0x2B1D879B5e102e60166202de79537B48E2F18a42

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Hi team Threshold and community! We’re thrilled to participate in the Beta Staker Program. Please find below our addresses:

tBTC : 0xdd2adeaf1662a6bbfaf7ccd87273bea6cbbb4dd8
TACo : 0x3c9288d14ff1734b12cdc9fdae77a6bfedc0fd56
Staking Provider and ETH Payment Address : 0xBf40548b6Fd104C3cA9B2F6b2E2383301dB1c023
Signature: https://etherscan.io/verifySig/35584

Thanks very much

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Hi team,

Ponkila information:

tBTC: 0x58cccc6d3a4eb343f5d42264a95254b28b8c10fe (signature: Ethereum Verified Signed Message)
TACo: (none)
Staking Provider and ETH Payment Address: 0xedd0C77314f07fCA414B549156A0d9C915B096E9 (signature: Ethereum Verified Signed Message)

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Liquify - Updating the previous reply as we’ve changed wallets.

tBTC: 0x6b7A51a596D6de6fCb860dD2b9a90443cc5BA1A5
TACo: 0xb029e086C62BF3A8c76Ab7D1e98aCf6Fc2aF18E1
Staking Provider and ETH Payment Address: 0x621074D613Fc938bD9381AB77Ef3609a02432628

Thank you!

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Hi all,

Just a quick note from Kiln to confirm that we are updating our ETH payment address to streamline our internal finance operations.

The new payment address will be 0x04a8F552E6D13FD00dEF492D243198e841a8F107.

Thanks very much,
Willem @ Kiln

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Hello Threshold community,

I’m Lou from the validator team at Stake Capital Group.

We’re excited to submit Stake Capital’s application to join the Beta Staker program and continue contributing to this ecosystem at the infrastructure level.

In fact, we’ve been hosting and taking care of an optimistic minter for over a year and a half and have enjoyed collaborating with this great team. We have also secured a delegation from a third party for the next 12 months.

Company Name: Stake Capital
Website: www.stake.capital

Company Description and Relevant Experience

Stake Capital, led by pioneers in blockchain and DeFi, began our journey with mining in 2011, followed by investments in 2013, and building blockchain projects starting in 2015. This path has allowed us to provide high-quality and trustworthy services to our clients and partners.

We are involved in over 150 companies. As active venture capitalists in early phases, we offer incubation and acceleration programs, and engage in quantitative strategies like validation, liquid stacking, and market making.

Our team, dedicated to providing exceptional node and validation services, ensures smooth and efficient operation for the projects we choose to run nodes for. We provide validators on over fifteen blockchains for several years. Our presence is worldwide, with a team based in Europe and the USA.

Country of Operation

Stake Capital is headquartered in Switzerland, benefits from a global team and an extensive support network. Our infrastructure is designed to be robust, diversified, and adaptable, enabling us to offer superior services to a global clientele. Thanks to our strategic presence and collaboration with leading cloud service providers, we ensure optimal performance and availability for the nodes we manage, while adhering to the principles of decentralization and security.

Technical Solution Description

In the context of deploying TACO and tBTC nodes on the Threshold Network, we have available regions including Ohio, Virginia, Frankfurt, and Tokyo through our AWS infrastructure. We utilize custom-built, hardened Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for enhanced security and operational efficiency.

Our architecture separates testnet and mainnet nodes into distinct AWS accounts, providing clarity and increased security. All credentials are managed via HashiCorp Vault. We use Geth and Besu for execution and Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, and Nimbus for consensus. Our active participation in the Threshold Optimistic Minter program underscores our commitment to robust and efficient blockchain deployments across these strategic global regions.

Backup and Security Principles

Our infrastructure deployment and maintenance are managed via Terraform on AWS, with primary infrastructure code on GitHub and individual stack deployment files on AWS CodeCommit, supported by AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline for continuous integration and delivery. Each node stack is independently deployed in its own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enhancing security and isolation.

In case of node failure, we quickly redeploy using pre-configured snapshots of data drives, ensuring rapid recovery. Our architecture allows for immediate scaling across additional AWS availability zones and regions, maintaining operational continuity. We secure critical secrets with Vault, configured with detailed policies for each validator or bridge, reinforcing our resilience to system failures and aligning with best practices for disaster recovery in cloud environments.

Participation in tBTC & TACo Nodes: Yes
Do you commit to participating as a Beta Staker for a minimum of 12 months? Yes

We look forward to contributing to the advancement of the Threshold ecosystem to the best of our abilities.

Thx all

Validator team
Stake Capital

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  • Company name - Luganodes

  • Company website- https://www.luganodes.com/

  • Company description

    • Luganodes is a Swiss-operated, institutional-grade, non-custodial staking provider born out of Lugano Plan B Program, an initiative driven by Tether & City of Lugano. Our team is dedicated to providing secure & reliable blockchain infrastructure.
    • With over $3 billion worth of staked assets & presence in 45+ leading PoS networks, Luganodes is recognized as the world’s fastest-growing AAA rated staking provider. We are the leading provider on several ecosystems such as Ethereum, Tron, Polkadot, Polygon, Sui, Solana and a few others.

  • Reference and Testimonials - https://www.luganodes.com/

  • Security & Compliance

    • We’re SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliant, with an added layer of trust through slashing insurance for all institutional clients.
    • We had our infrastructure audited by Quantstamp and provide slashing insurance to institutional clients in partnership with chainproof
    • Our team of dedicated experts spans the globe, ensuring round-the-clock support and expertise.

  • Team

    • Our site reliability engineering team comes from background working with the core team of several protocols previously and have experience running 40+ blockchain protocols.
    • We actively engage in participating in devnet, testnet and launching mainnets. Also, our team has expertise in running BTC L2s (Stacks), zk roll-ups, indexers, and sequencers.

  • Country of operation- Lugano, Switzerland

  • Relevant experience

  • Description of solution design

    • We run our infrastructure on Bare metal servers using a combination of primary and backup to quickly migrate in case of node failure and ensure 99%+ uptime.
    • As mentioned above our expertise in running infra for Ethereum, AVSs and recent involvement in Bitcoin L2 will be a great testament of our strong backend solution capability.

  • Description of backup and security principals

    • We have deployed our infrastructure across different European and Asian regions with primary and backup at different locations and with different providers.
    • This helps us mitigate any kind of DC outage and the risk of downtime associated with it. We enable our Client to also choose the location to host our node which helps in also achieving the highest degree of decentralisation in terms of node location. In case of node failure, we quickly migrate.
    • Key Management
      • Withdrawal keys are created in an air-gapped machine for the initial seed phrase and kept in a cold wallet. Nodes are operated with remote signers and signers are connected via private network for communicating with the networks.

  • Will you participate with both tBTC & TACo? Yes, we will be participating in both tBTC and TACo.

  • Do you commit to participating as a Beta Staker for a minimum of 12 months? Yes, we will commit to a 12-month period and also accommodate the request for the period extension.

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