The Celestia Foundation has concluded the Foundation Delegation program for Cohort 2. You can find the list of validators receiving delegations in the spreadsheet (link).
Cohort 3 applications will open up on October 1st, 2024. As a reminder, for Cohort 3, all validators that were Second Place in Cohort 1 will have to reapply, along with new validator applicants.
For the next Cohort, the Foundation will reject any applicants who run their infrastructure on OVH or Hetzner to foster provider decentralization. Please note that we also do not advise Contabo. Furthermore, any new validator who wishes to apply to Cohort 3 is advised to start running their validator node and bridge node on Mocha testnet ahead of applications opening on October 1st. The community managers on the Celestia Discord are happy to help get you to the active set on Mocha testnet. This ensures uptime performance can be measured prior to applications opening.
Thank you to everyone who applied, and we look forward to seeing new applicants for Cohort 3. We also wanted to thank the whole P-OPS team for doing a lot of the heavy lifting that made the delegation program possible.
Thank you for keeping the Celestia network secure and resilient.
The Celestia Foundation.
