Apply for whitelisting
If you run a validator and you believe you meet the criteria below, submit your details and we'll get back to you. Whitelisted validators are eligible to receive stake based on their relative performance, in line with the rest of our validator selection rules.
Required to be eligible
All five must be true before we'll review an application.
- 1
Sustained high uptime across recent epochs. We drop validators that consistently miss leader slots.
- 2
Independent infrastructure — own hardware in distinct geographies, not a shared upstream provider.
- 3
Reasonable commission. Healthy validators invest in their nodes; we weigh commission against demonstrated performance.
- 4
Self-stake and a track record across multiple epochs.
- 5
Operating in, or actively serving, APAC or EMEA emerging markets. This is a base requirement, not a tiebreaker — pool delegations are reserved for validator teams aligned with the mission.
What earns preference
Beyond the eligibility bar, this is what moves an application up the queue.
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Validator teams who are themselves founders, builders, or shippers — and who can point to visible, measurable work growing the Solana ecosystem in their region. Shipped products, dev tooling, hackathons run, education or community work, audited contributions. Real outputs, not stated intentions.
Submit your application
Have your vote-account pubkey, identity pubkey, commission, self-stake amount, data-centre region, and a Telegram or email contact ready before you start.
We never ask for your validator's private keys. Submissions go to Typeform and are reviewed manually.