Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
"Validators are a permissionless action. Anyone can spin up a validator. But the challenge with validators is they need to get information from other validators to complete the chain. So if you're running a validator as just an upstart and you get some stake and you're looking at a place where you want to ultimately run your node, chances are you're going to co-locate among other validators because that is the highest likelihood that you'll get information fast.
Now, in a one-off scenario, that isn't a problem. But at scale, what you get are these pockets of areas across the globe where there is a ton of concentration of stake. If we look at Amsterdam and Frankfurt as two regions, they're very popular...
What DoubleZero aimed to put together as part of our delegation program is to say, we will run links, our contributors will provide fiber connectivity to specific regions.
And what that allows for, even in the case of Sao Paulo in Brazil, now you no longer need to deal with the nuances of South American internet routing rules as you're trying to go from Brazil to Tokyo. Instead, that validator who wants to decentralize the network can locate in Brazil, connect into the DoubleZero network and have low latency connectivity in and out of other validators."
–Tom Warner, DoubleZero Head of Blockchain BD at the Solana Policy Institute Summit 2026
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/lMVOjps50-g?si=4Au1prsxJS6icRdv
"Validators are a permissionless action. Anyone can spin up a validator. But the challenge with validators is they need to get information from other validators to complete the chain. So if you're running a validator as just an upstart and you get some stake and you're looking at a place where you want to ultimately run your node, chances are you're going to co-locate among other validators because that is the highest likelihood that you'll get information fast.
Now, in a one-off scenario, that isn't a problem. But at scale, what you get are these pockets of areas across the globe where there is a ton of concentration of stake. If we look at Amsterdam and Frankfurt as two regions, they're very popular...
What DoubleZero aimed to put together as part of our delegation program is to say, we will run links, our contributors will provide fiber connectivity to specific regions.
And what that allows for, even in the case of Sao Paulo in Brazil, now you no longer need to deal with the nuances of South American internet routing rules as you're trying to go from Brazil to Tokyo. Instead, that validator who wants to decentralize the network can locate in Brazil, connect into the DoubleZero network and have low latency connectivity in and out of other validators."
–Tom Warner, DoubleZero Head of Blockchain BD at the Solana Policy Institute Summit 2026
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/lMVOjps50-g?si=4Au1prsxJS6icRdv
