Located
25
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.
25
peer-to-peer nodes with a resolved address
5
distinct countries
5
distinct hosting networks
0
advertised an address we could not locate
25 of 25 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.
53 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.
top 5 of 5
| # | Country | Validators | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1st) | JP | 7 | 28.0% |
| 2 (2nd) | US | 7 | 28.0% |
| 3 (3rd) | IE | 6 | 24.0% |
| 4 | DE | 4 | 16.0% |
| 5 | GB | 1 | 4.0% |
top 5 of 5
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. | 15 | 60.0% |
| 2 (2nd) | Allnodes Inc | 4 | 16.0% |
| 3 (3rd) | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4 | 16.0% |
| 4 | Hetzner Online GmbH | 1 | 4.0% |
| 5 | The Constant Company, LLC | 1 | 4.0% |
IP geolocation by DB-IP (https://db-ip.com), CC-BY 4.0