Security

The security of staking on Nansen Staking Hub is of utmost importance to us. We set up our Validation Architecture based on best practices and with risk mitigation in mind.

The Validation Architecture

We utilize an active-passive setup for all validation nodes which vastly reduces the chance of double signing. Validation nodes are housed on-premise at two Tier 3 Datacenters (Equinix and ST Telemedia) situated in Singapore.

Public sentries are deployed on AWS and Google Cloud across multiple regions (US, EU and SEA) and availability zones for redundancy purposes. Our 24/7 monitoring system ensures that issues are identified and rectified in a timely manner.

The Yubi2HSM is utilized whenever possible, with a strict internal policy to securely generate roles and set capabilities. We multi-sig all secrets with backups stored in bank vaults.

All services provided by Nansen are non-custodial in nature. Clients have complete control of their private keys, which means that all funds are never at risk of being stolen while staking.

The Nansen staking team has been operating validation nodes since February 2019 with a perfect track record of zero slashes.