Bridge validator co-hosting

Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-150 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Top validators are institutional staking services (Cosmostation, Everstake, Figment, Imperator.co, Citadel.one) likely operating independent infrastructure. Top 5 control ~21% of visible stake; quadratic weighting further reduces individual impact. No OSINT evidence of single-datacenter co-hosting confirmed, but institutional validators commonly use major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Hetzner), introducing some co-hosting probability. ASN-level verification not possible via available sources.

Sources #

Docs
Axelar Network Delegation GuidelinesAxelar delegation guidelines — validator diversity encouraged; institutional validator contextretrieved 2026-05-17
URL
Axelar Validator Liststaking-explorer.com/staking/axelar — top validator identities: Cosmostation, Everstake, Figment, Imperator.co, Citadel.oneretrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Determine whether validators share ASN or data-center/custodian per on-chain and OSINT inference.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol axelar factor RD-F-150 score yellow collected_at 2026-05-16 21:57:49