For several months now, a clear trend has emerged: more and more validators are closing shop, throwing in the towel, or reducing their exposure. Rewards are dropping. Costs are rising. And the ecosystem is becoming… brutal.
So why continue?
At Snow-Fall.io, we are often asked this question. And our answer comes down to three words: vision, resilience, sovereignty.
💸 There are many reasons to give up, but they are revealing
- The bear market is squeezing everyone’s margins.
- Infrastructure costs are exploding (hardware, electricity, bandwidth).
- Delegators’ attention is shifting towards promises of exorbitant returns or all-in-one centralized products.
- Even the projects themselves sometimes become unclear or unstable.
In short, for an independent, ethical, and non-custodial validator, the game is getting tough. And yet, it is precisely in these conditions that one must hold firm.
❄️ Why we continue
Because we are not here for the cycles. We are here for the vision. That of a truly decentralized Web3, supported by validators who are:
✅ independent
✅ sovereign
✅ transparent
✅ without empty promises or toxic marketing
We believe in useful, resilient, long-term infrastructure. Not a race for TVL or short-term yield.
Where others optimize dashboards, we monitor servers. Where others sell custodial staking, we offer a safe alternative, at home.
And above all, we continue because we know that small validators are essential to the diversity and decentralization of any network. Yet, they are often ignored, poorly supported, and rarely chosen by projects for delegations. A worrying paradox — because without them, blockchains are just disguised data centers.
🔧 What we do to hold strong
🧠 We diversify our engagements: TAO subnets, Algorand, Babylon, Sentinel, FLUX, Neoxa, Aethir… This multi-chain approach allows us to reduce risks and explore innovation where it emerges.
🛠️ We strengthen our bare-metal infrastructure, without opaque cloud services or intermediate providers. This technical sovereignty guarantees us total control over our performance and security.
🔬 We explore new technical avenues, test innovative architectures, and are always looking for more robust, more accessible, and more sovereign solutions.
🌐 We remain 100% self-funded, without tokens, VCs, or bullshit. Free, therefore reliable.
🚀 We continue to integrate new validators, even on small, promising projects, because we believe in the community bootstrap effect.
📊 Our vision of transparency
In an ecosystem where many validators remain opaque, we are committed to complete transparency:
- Performance metrics: uptime, latency, governance participation
- Technical choices: our infrastructure decisions and their justifications
- Operational evolution: continuous improvements to our services
This progressive transparency approach will intensify in the coming months, because we believe that trust is built on facts, not on promises.
🌱 What’s next?
We are not here to surf. We are here to build.
Surprises are in the works. In the autumn, we will unveil new concrete initiatives, the result of months of discreet work. Always with the same guiding principle: sovereignty, transparency, and real utility for the ecosystem.
If you also believe that validators should remain at the service of users rather than at the service of their own growth, then we are here for you.
In the meantime, we are staying at our post. And we are preparing for what’s next.
Do not hesitate to contact us: we always respond to serious questions and proposals — just like us.
🔗 https://www.snow-fall.io
