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Network map

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.

Located

23,700

validators with a resolved address

Countries

50

distinct countries

Networks

250

distinct hosting networks

Unresolved

0

advertised an address we could not locate

23,700 of 23,700 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.

19 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.

Countries

top 10 of 50

10 countries

Country concentration among located validators
#CountryValidatorsShare
1 (1st)US6,40927.0%
2 (2nd)DE5,97925.2%
3 (3rd)NL4,88920.6%
4JP1,5136.4%
5LT1,3285.6%
6SG1,0674.5%
7GB6742.8%
8IE6692.8%
9FR4451.9%
10FI1320.6%

Hosting networks

top 10 of 250

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.

10 networks

Network concentration among located validators
#NetworkValidatorsShare
10OVH SAS2711.1%
9Free SAS3241.4%
8Amazon.com, Inc.3571.5%
7Allnodes Inc3981.7%
6Limestone Networks, Inc.4351.8%
5HOSTKEY B.V.4932.1%
4Google LLC7683.2%
3 (3rd)Latitude.sh1,0824.6%
2 (2nd)UAB Cherry Servers5,47523.1%
1 (1st)TeraSwitch Networks Inc.11,01746.5%

IP geolocation by DB-IP (https://db-ip.com), CC-BY 4.0