# Come Stop by The Cosmonauts' Corner - New Validator Online **URL:** \ **Category:** Validation\ **Created:** [July 27, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/come-stop-by-the-cosmonauts-corner-new-validator-online/17194 "2026-07-27T19:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![voidstake](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/voidstake/32/8687_2.png) [@voidstake](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/voidstake)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/come-stop-by-the-cosmonauts-corner-new-validator-online/17194/9 "2026-09-13T11:22:46Z")
> [@Wandering\_Cosmonaut](#): > > Participation rate + uptime above everything IMO. Congratulations on the launch! And you’re mostly right — if a validator isn’t signing blocks and isn’t voting, nothing else about them matters much. Where I’d gently push back is on “everything else is marketing.” @Anzus_GemWallet asked for three things, and I’d say uptime, participation, and then something that tells you who you’re actually delegating to. Once you’ve filtered for the validators doing the basic job properly, you’re usually left with a long list that looks identical on paper — similar commission, similar uptime, similar voting record. At that point the tiebreaker is whatever you happen to care about, and a wallet that only shows the first two numbers isn’t helping anyone choose. For us that thing is where the electricity comes from — our nodes run on solar energy. Plenty of people will think that’s irrelevant to block signing, and that’s fair enough. But it’s a real fact about how we operate rather than a number, and it’s the honest reason someone would pick us over an identical-looking validator two rows further down the list. We did our own introduction over here if you’re curious: > [@VoidStake - Validator Profile](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/voidstake-validator-profile/17299): > > VoidStake — Powered by the Sun, Built for the People Who Are New Here Hello, Cosmonauts. We are VoidStake, and our validator runs on sunlight. That is not a tagline we reverse-engineered for a forum post. It is the reason the infrastructure is laid out the way it is. Our validator servers draw their electricity from solar panels installed on-site — the energy securing the Cosmos Hub is, quite literally, generated by the sun above the machines doing the signing. We have been in the active set … Good luck with the burn mechanic, that’s a genuinely novel one. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/come-stop-by-the-cosmonauts-corner-new-validator-online/17194)._