Located
102
peer-to-peer nodes with a resolved address
Network
Where each chain's infrastructure is routed. A map of hosting, not of people: every point is an approximate location for an IP address, which is almost always a datacentre. Two kinds of point — validators where the chain publishes an address per identity, and peer-to-peer nodes where it does not.
102
peer-to-peer nodes with a resolved address
6
distinct countries
8
distinct hosting networks
0
advertised an address we could not locate
102 of 102 located points
Each point is the approximate location of a network address, usually its hosting provider's datacentre. It is not the location of an operator, and an address that could not be resolved is absent rather than placed at a country centroid. Two kinds of point. A validator point is keyed by validator identity and exists only where the chain publishes an address per validator, which of these three only Solana does. A node point is a member of the peer-to-peer network, met by walking that network's own discovery protocol; it says where the network is hosted and nothing about who operates it or what it validates. A node count is what a bounded walk met, not the size of the network — discovery has no completion condition.
56 indexed validators publish no network address through any source measured here, so they cannot appear on this map at all. That is a property of those chains rather than a gap in resolution.
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| # | Country | Validators | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1st) | US | 47 | 46.1% |
| 5 | SG | 3 | 2.9% |
| 6 | KR | 1 | 1.0% |
| 4 | JP | 16 | 15.7% |
| 3 (3rd) | IE | 17 | 16.7% |
| 2 (2nd) | DE | 18 | 17.6% |
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Concentration here is the interesting figure. A validator set spread across many countries but hosted by three companies is centralised in the way that matters for correlated failure.
| # | Network | Validators | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1st) | TeraSwitch Networks Inc. | 48 | 47.1% |
| 2 (2nd) | Amazon.com, Inc. | 22 | 21.6% |
| 3 (3rd) | Allnodes Inc | 10 | 9.8% |
| 4 | Hetzner Online GmbH | 10 | 9.8% |
| 5 | OVH SAS | 8 | 7.8% |
| 6 | Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited | 2 | 2.0% |
| 7 | Contabo GmbH | 1 | 1.0% |
| 8 | Google LLC | 1 | 1.0% |
IP geolocation by DB-IP (https://db-ip.com), CC-BY 4.0