Yonta Labs

Live network status

THE NUMBERS, STRAIGHT FROM THE CHAIN

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CHECKING EPOCH — CLIENT — WIZ RANK — —

EPOCH PROGRESS—

ACTIVATED STAKE—SOL

TOTAL APY——

VOTE CREDIT RATIO—higher is better

UPTIME—current epoch

SKIP RATE—lower is better

WIZ SCORE—out of 100

WIZ RANK—Stakewiz ranking

Where we sit in the network

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Yonta Labs · Sovereign-Sol LLC, AS19344 Every other Solana validator, sized by activated stake

—Validators mapped

—Most concentrated city

—Other validators in our city

—Other validators on our ASN

DoubleZero publishes no publicly queryable list of its points of presence, so this map plots validator locations only. Our DoubleZero connectivity is described above rather than drawn here, because drawing it would mean guessing.

Superminority check

Checking whether our stake sits above the halt line.

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Track record

WHAT WE HAVE DONE

Live since October 2023. We do not take any native stake commission, and never have. We run Jito for MEV, which carries a separate 10% MEV commission. We state that plainly rather than advertise "no fees" and let you find it yourself.

DOUBLEZERO

We run over DoubleZero, the dedicated network layer built for validators. It moves consensus traffic off the shared public internet and onto private fiber, which cuts jitter and removes a whole class of dependency on transit providers we do not control.

JITO

Jito-Solana client with MEV enabled, so delegators receive a share of MEV rewards on top of inflation rewards. MEV commission is 10%. Native stake commission remains 0%.

MARINADE STAKE SELECT

Part of Marinade Stake Select, the curated set introduced in 2025 that routes stake on operational quality rather than on bids.

STAKE POOLS

We participate in several Solana stake pools in addition to Marinade, which spreads delegation across independent sources rather than concentrating it in any single counterparty.

PERFORMANCE

Vote credit ratio and skip rate are the two numbers that decide what a delegator actually earns. Ours are shown live at the top of this page, pulled from a third-party source rather than asserted by us.

Who runs it

THREE OPERATORS, NOTHING OUTSOURCED

Yonta Labs is a team of three with roughly 50 years of combined experience across network architecture, solutions architecture, application development, and finance, including work for Fortune 500 clients before any of us touched a validator.

We do not front the operation with personal brands. A validator should be judged on vote credits, skip rate, and how it behaves during a bad epoch, all of which are public and none of which improve because an operator has a following. The numbers at the top of this page are the pitch.

NETWORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Owns the ASN, the IPv4 allocation, the routing, and the physical build. Decides what iron we buy and how it is connected.

VALIDATOR OPERATIONS

Hands on the node: client upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and the response when an epoch goes sideways at an inconvenient hour.

FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE

Treasury, delegation relationships, and participation in the governance decisions that shape what operators are required to do next.

SINCE OCTOBER 2023

Continuous operation through client upgrades, network incidents, and every epoch in between. Long enough to have opinions, short enough to still be paying attention.

What we operate

OUR OWN IRON, OUR OWN ROUTES

Most validators are a virtual machine in a datacenter that also hosts a few hundred others. That is cheap, and it is fine right up until the moment the shared layer underneath moves and takes every tenant with it. We built the other way: bare metal we specified, in space we control, announced from AS19344, our own autonomous system number.

Component	Typical validator	Yonta Labs
CPU	12 cores / 24 threads, 2.8 GHz	AMD EPYC 9475F, 5th Gen, 48 cores / 96 threads
Memory	256 GB	768 GB DDR5
Storage	NVMe SSD, 256 GB	20 TB PCIe 5.0 Kioxia, 5 x 4 TB
Bandwidth	1 Gbps symmetric	Dual 100 Gbps symmetric
Network identity	Rented address space, announced by the provider	Our own ASN (AS19344) and our own IPv4 allocation, announced by us
Transit	Shared public internet	DoubleZero private fiber

The first four rows compare against Solana's published minimum hardware requirements. The last two compare against how validators are commonly deployed, since Solana publishes no network-identity requirement.

WHY THE ASN MATTERS

We hold our own ASN and our own IPv4 space, so our routes are originated by us rather than by a hosting provider. When an upstream misconfiguration propagates through a shared provider, every operator sitting inside that provider's address space goes dark together. Independent origination is the difference between being affected by someone else's outage and being responsible for your own.

WHY THE HEADROOM MATTERS

Solana's published minimums describe a node that keeps up today. They do not describe one that keeps up through a load spike, a state-growth jump, or a client upgrade that changes the performance envelope. The spread between the two columns above is the margin we keep so a bad epoch stays boring.

Games

PLAY SUPERMINORITY, A FREE BROWSER GAME

We build short games about how Solana actually works. Free, no install, no wallet, no signup. Opens in your browser and runs on a phone.

FREE GAME

SUPERMINORITY

A third of the stake can halt the chain. Race the Nakamoto coefficient to 33 across five stages before institutional capture gets there first, dodging route leaks on the way.

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MORE SOON

GAME TWO

Another operator problem, same format. In development.

COMING SOON

Community

COME TALK TO US

Questions about delegating, yontaSOL, or how we run the node are best asked directly. Telegram is where we are most active and where operational updates go first.

Day to day chat, updates, and the fastest way to reach us.

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DISCORD

Longer form discussion and support threads.

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Announcements, and where game runs get posted.

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INSTAGRAM

Build photos and the occasional look at the hardware.

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We will never DM you first, and we will never ask for a seed phrase, a private key, or a wallet signature in chat. Anyone who does is not us.

Delegate

DELEGATE NATIVE STAKE

Delegating does not transfer custody. Your SOL stays in your wallet, you can undelegate at any time, and deactivation completes at the end of the epoch. Search for Yonta Labs in the staking tab of Solflare, Phantom, or Backpack, or paste the vote account below.

Field	Value
Vote account	BeSov1og3sEYyH9JY3ap7QcQDvVX8f4sugfNPf9YLkcV
Native stake commission	0%
MEV commission	10% via Jito
ASN	AS19344
Network	DoubleZero

Or hold yontaSOL

yontaSOL is our liquid staking token. You hold a token that accrues staking rewards instead of a locked stake account, so it stays usable across DeFi: lending, LPing, or trading, without unstaking first and without waiting out an epoch to exit. Find it on Sanctum or Jupiter.

Field	Value
Token	yontaSOL
Type	Liquid staking token, stays usable in DeFi while it accrues rewards
Where to find it	Sanctum and Jupiter

Confirm the mint address against the listing on Sanctum or Jupiter before swapping. Lookalike tickers are common on Solana.

Validator performance STAKEWIZ Vote credits, skip rate, uptime, commission and wiz score, epoch by epoch. VERIFY → LST performance SANCTUM yontaSOL APY over its full history, TVL, and the underlying stake pool. VERIFY →

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Staking rewards are variable and are not guaranteed. Figures shown are third-party estimates based on recent epochs, not a promise of future yield. Nothing here is financial advice.

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