Side Protocol is a modular infrastructure for Bitcoin, aiming to become the settlement & value exchange layer in the Bitcoin modular stack. It has raised $3M from HashKey Capital, Continue Capital, KR1, Symbolic Capital, DoraHacks, Informal Systems and 3 Angel investors.

Vitalik Buterin talked in this article about the possible application of Layer 3, mentioning Starkware's work in this regard: if L2s are used to achieve greater general-purpose and trustless scalability, L3s find application in custom scalability systems with custom features (i.e., privacy) or in validiums.

In early 2023, ChatGPT reached 100M active users, drawing public attention to the field of artificial intelligence. In the crypto sector we have seen many cryptos benefit from this AI narrative, among the many tokens $TAO comes to mind.

We have often focused on validator nodes from the Cosmos ecosystem, but today we look at a somewhat more particular: The Waku Network.

Phase 1 of Penumbra's summoning ceremony, which lasted throughout the year 2023, ended on February 3, with 15’745 distinct contributions from the community.

There has been recent talk about Pryzm Zone and its potential airdrop for stakers of $LUNA, $ATOM, $TIA, $DYM, $INJ and other Cosmos ecosystem coins to Pryzm nodes. There has also been talk about the validator node in testnet, yet there has been misinformation on the topic, especially from the most followed profiles on Twitter.

Continuing with the validator nodes topic, let’s remain in the EVM environment and talk about NuLink.

Given the strong interest in this category of posts, we return to the topic. Staying in the EVM environment, let's look together at Elixir Finance and why it might be interesting to launch a node.

I don't mean to repeat myself. Since this is a guide focused on the installation of a validator node, I refer you to the introduction of my previous article, where I talked in-more-depth about what a validator node is and why it makes sense to launch one in testnet.