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 for a while now and have never introduced ourselves properly. This is us fixing that.
Two things we care about that most validators don’t talk about
1. The energy actually has to come from somewhere
Proof-of-Stake already consumes a fraction of what Proof-of-Work does, and the ecosystem has gotten comfortable leaving the argument there. We think that is an incomplete answer. “Better than Bitcoin” is a low bar, and it says nothing about where any individual validator’s power is coming from.
So we generate ours on-site. On-site solar means:
- No reliance on a hosting provider’s energy mix that we cannot see or influence
- Clean energy powering consensus directly, not offset-purchased after the fact
- Lower operational emissions with no compromise on redundancy or uptime
Sustainability is an operational choice for us, not a marketing checkbox. If you care about where the electricity behind your stake comes from, you now have an answer you can point at.
2. Staking is still far too intimidating for normal people
Most validator profiles are written for foundations, institutions, and other validators. Almost nobody writes for the person who just downloaded Keplr, holds a modest bag, and is genuinely nervous about clicking a button they do not fully understand.
That person is who we built VoidStake for.
We put real work into making the first stake feel survivable:
- Plain-language walkthroughs — choose a wallet, delegate, watch rewards arrive. No jargon wall.
- A rewards calculator running on live on-chain data, so expectations are set honestly before anyone commits
- Side-by-side validator comparison — including comparisons that do not flatter us. If someone is better for a given delegator, we would rather they found that out than got a bad surprise later.
- Governance and alerts pages, so delegators can follow what is happening without living on Twitter
- REStake support for auto-compounding, because manually restaking every epoch is a chore nobody should have to remember
You always keep custody. We never touch your tokens or your keys. Not as a policy we could revise — as an architectural fact about how delegation works, which we go out of our way to explain rather than gloss over.
The Hub spends a great deal of energy on institutional distribution, and that work matters. But somebody should also be making sure that when those new users arrive, the on-ramp is not hostile. That is the job we picked up.
Infrastructure and security
- Separate validator and sentry architecture, with strict firewall rules and network segmentation
- Geographic redundancy across regions, to absorb outages, DDoS, and single-provider failure
- Hardened, isolated nodes with continuous monitoring and regular OS and dependency patching
- Automated backups and configuration recovery, with tested restore procedures
- Continuous uptime and slashing-risk monitoring, with alerting and a defined incident-response and escalation path
We take the view that security beats liveness maximalism. A validator that chases the last fraction of a percent of uptime by cutting corners on key handling is trading a rounding error against a catastrophe. We would rather be boring and safe.
Track record (1 year+ 
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Validator: cosmosvaloper1ww9dg7fgy6d3l89exlx9wsl86ycrnjp448ry75
| Missed blocks, current 10,000-block window | 0 |
| Signing since block | 26,684,429 — over 6.2 million blocks ago |
| Jailed | Never |
| Slashed / tombstoned | Never |
| Commission | 5% (max 10%, max change 1%/day) |
| Active set rank | ~71 of 180 |
Do not take our word for any of it. Every line above is a query away on any Cosmos Hub LCD endpoint, and we would rather you checked than trusted us.
How we vote
We treat governance as a core responsibility, not an administrative chore to clear before a deadline. Our process:
- Read the whole thing. The on-chain proposal, the forum thread, the dissent, and the budget if there is one.
- Ask what it costs and what it guarantees. Especially for treasury spends: what does the Hub actually receive, and what happens if the upside does not materialise?
- Declare conflicts. If we have a commercial or operational relationship that bears on a proposal, we would rather say so than quietly let it colour the vote.
- Vote, and say why. A vote without published reasoning gives delegators nothing to hold us to.
We do not vote with the largest stakeholder by default, and we are comfortable being in a minority when the reasoning holds.
A reminder we give often: on the Cosmos Hub, a delegator’s own vote overrides their validator’s vote for their stake. That is an important protection and we would rather you used it than deferred to us.
What we want for the Hub
- A wider validator set that actually means something. The Hub’s halt coefficient is currently 3 against a target of 7. Decentralisation that exists only in the docs is not decentralisation.
- Governance that reaches quorum comfortably, rather than scraping past 40% and hoping.
- Tooling treated as shared infrastructure. The recent validator tooling survey drew five responses. Upgrade notifications and reliable historical data should not be something every operator rebuilds alone in the dark.
- An on-ramp that does not lose people at step one. Institutional distribution and retail accessibility are not competing priorities.
- Infrastructure that is honest about its footprint, and more validators willing to say where their power comes from.
Come say hello
- Website: https://www.voidstake.com
- Stats & calculator: VoidStake – Cosmos Validator
- Compare validators: VoidStake – Cosmos Validator Comparison
- Contact an operator: cosmos@voidstake.com
If you have questions about the solar setup, the infrastructure, or a vote we cast, ask here and we will answer in the open.
Thanks for reading — and thank you to everyone who has been keeping this forum alive.
— The VoidStake Team 