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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

30,810

23,700 validators, 7,110 nodes

Countries

88

distinct countries

Networks

815

distinct hosting networks

Unresolved

0

advertised an address we could not locate

30,810 of 30,810 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.

952,277 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 88

10 countries

Country concentration among located validators
#CountryValidatorsShare
1 (1st)US8,68628.2%
2 (2nd)DE7,03222.8%
3 (3rd)NL5,09516.5%
4JP1,7755.8%
5LT1,5915.2%
6SG1,2804.2%
7GB9563.1%
8IE7802.5%
9FR7742.5%
10FI5121.7%

Hosting networks

top 10 of 815

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
10Allnodes Inc4791.6%
3 (3rd)Amazon.com, Inc.1,3404.3%
7Google LLC9723.2%
5Hetzner Online GmbH1,1103.6%
8HOSTKEY B.V.4971.6%
4Latitude.sh1,1813.8%
9Limestone Networks, Inc.4821.6%
6OVH SAS1,0693.5%
1 (1st)TeraSwitch Networks Inc.11,13636.1%
2 (2nd)UAB Cherry Servers5,55818.0%

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