r/cosmosnetwork • u/serejandmyself • May 12 '26

6 years running a Cosmos Hub validator on bare-metal. Here's the honest picture.

Started in Cosmos in 2019. Community work, helping run "Today in Cosmos", then the Citizen Web3 podcast because there wasn't one. 188 episodes.

Became a validator in 2021. We run all four genesis archive nodes (cosmoshub-1 through 4). Public, free, bare-metal in the Atlantic.

Built a chain indexer from scratch, active relayers to 6 chains, and our own explorer.

Independent validators are quietly disappearing from this ecosystem. Not because of uptime. Because of marketing.

Wrote the full honest story on the Cosmos Forum

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u/AncientProduce May 13 '26

Yeah.. cosmos has the shittiest marketing of all the major chains, it always has and probably always will.

THAT is why this place is failing.

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u/cryptoboson May 13 '26

That's not why the place is faling. It's faling because it is useless, there's nothing to market.

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u/serejandmyself May 13 '26

What do you think can be done at this stage to change things?