Community Voting for AIT-2 Validator Selection

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Guide for anyone participating in the community voting phase of our validator selection process for the Aptos incentivized testnet (AIT-2).

Hello Aptos community!

We are seeking your feedback to help identify qualified AIT-2 validators.

Potential validators, before creating your Aptos Validator Topic, please register your AIT-2 node and complete identity verification. Here is a blog post with details of that process:

Welcome to Aptos Incentivized Testnet 2

Community Members ~ How To Vote:

Read posts in this category (and linked in this thread below) to find out more about potential validators, engage in conversations, and upvote profiles you think are qualified.

AIT-2 Community Voting

Potential Validators ~ How To Create Profile:

Registered AIT-2 participants may create posts in this #nodes:ait2 category to share more info about yourself on the forum, where members can review and upvote.

AFTER YOU COMPLETE REGISTRATION:

1. Create a post using the below template ~ title format: [AIT2] Validator Name
2. Reply below with the link to your new thread, along with a quick introduction

Validator Profile Template

• Brief description, background, experience, and key achievements (~500 characters)
• General information: Organization Name, Website, Location, Languages
• Communication Channels, Aptos Articles + Tools
• Technical Details (maybe just a paragraph about infrastructure)

[james]

[AIT2] Example Validator

Why pick my validator? Template: Brief description, background, experience, and key achievements (~500 characters) General information: Organization Name, Website, Location, Languages Communication Channels, Aptos Articles + Tools Technical Details (maybe just a paragraph about infrastructure)

[pavel_smolin]

[AIT2] Validator AptosPS

Hi! I am Pavel I am active at discord Russian channel to help in setting up and troubleshooting nodes. Why pick my validator ? I have a big experience in blockchain/mining/investing since 2017. I hosted different validator and testnet nodes since 2021 in different blockchain (Etherium, TON, IronFish, Subspace) I have infrastructure through Russian Tier III datacenters. I can communicate in English and Russian Fast answer in discord and telegram. Glad to me…

Hi!
My name is Pavel.
I have a great experience in:

• crypto (investing, mining, node opetations since 2017) -
• IT (a use linux since 1998 and now i am working DevOps engineer)
• education for students (i have a Ph.d graduate since 2011)

I am from Moscow, i speak russian and english.
My telegram @PashaSmolinPro

Technical details: i use VDS and dedicated servers (8-16 cores / raid1) in Tier III datacenters, Ubuntu 20.04 and Nagios/Prometheus for monitoring.

[yo_an]

[AIT2] Frenchchocolatine

Hey everybody, this is Frenchchocolatine validator speaking Active in the French channel in order to help in validator registration or configuration. Why pick my validator ? Validator since 3 years in different blockchain (Flux / Everscale / Arable Finance) Strong infrastructure through European servers. I can communicate in French and English Fast answer if needed in Discord, I promise you a personal one as soon as possible (but not during sleeping hours ^^) …

Frenchchocolatine Validator, Thumbs up, vote here and be part of the journey through my node, don’t hesitate to “heart” me

[kant1742]

[ait2] kant1742

Hi. I’m a former Backend developer. The general crypto experience goes back in 2015 where I helped all kinds of projects to grow. In the past year and a half I set up many nodes, such as Aptos, Archway, Forta, Iron Fish (2 phases), Masa, Massa, Minima, Pontem, StarkNet, and Subspace. I’ve been running multiple Aptos devnet nodes since the beginning and helped many hundreds of people to solve their problems. I wrote an article about Aptos which can be found on Discord, and you might have noti…

[nadyas]

[AIT2] Validator-psychologist Nadya

Hi, All! I am Nadya and I am psychologist. I work with IT specialists and I help to solve different problems (f.e. procrastination, perfectionism, gambling and others) I am interesting in Linux and blockchain. I am with Aptos for about three months and I think it is great! I use VDS servers located in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. Vote for me and may the force be with you!

You can contact me at discord NadyaSmolina.

All of my family with Aptos

[monopolisto]

[AIT2] Monopolisto

Hello friends I am a crypto enthusiast who has been participating in the crypto community since 2017. You could often see me on the APTOS discord RU channel, from the very beginning I helped many in the Aptos community with the installation of the node starting with devnet I have excellent experience installing node for projects such as Aptos, Mina Protocol, Ironfish, Massa, Leo, Hopr, Minimal and others. Languages: Russian and English. Telegram:@Monopolisto

[kelpie]

[AIT2] Kelpie - I will be your president. Or a validator :D

And if I don’t get into AIT2, this doesn’t mean that I will stop making you happy with funny memes. But it will be a kind of good motivation for me to work harder in this direction))

[munris]

[AIT2] Munris

Hello from In real life my friends call me Vlad, but in noders community better known as Munris. I’m active node community member, with a good baggage of experience in validating and working with infrastructure. I previously participated in more than 20 projects, mainnets and testnets. Have a good skills in DevOps (docker, KVM), my main working activity is developer, so I often write some scripts and automatisation for my nodes and infrastracture. Have a lot of different types of infr…

[twoforty333]

Hello! Please vote for us - a vote for our validator is a vote for our planet!

We run in public cloud and colocated servers across many countries. We are small team but have growing clients, help us grow and help us fund carbon offsets!

[AIT2] Validate and Save the Planet!

Hello! Why pick my validator? I have been following Aptos Labs for some time. I have extensive experience as a system administrator, node operator, and as a developer: but over the past few years I have had much passion for the crypto space. We have been participating and running nodes because we want to be ready to offer our services as node runners after main net. We have years of experience running nodes together in our company. We offer boutique fully-managed validator node running as a se…

[crnepos]

Hello friends! My name is Ruslan and I’m investment and financial professional.

I’m crypto enthusiast and have been involved with Aptos since the very beginning. So, together with my friend versace1017, we created AptosRUcommunity telegram group where we help people on Aptos initial education, node running, translation of official Aptos articles into Russian, sharing news about the project, etc.

[AIT2] CrNepos aka Airnodes

Hello friends! My name is Ruslan and I’m investment and financial professional. I’m crypto enthusiast and have been involved with Aptos since the very beginning. So, together with my friend versace1017, we created AptosRUcommunity telegram group where we help people on Aptos initial education, node running, translation of official Aptos articles into Russian, sharing news about the project, etc. You can always contact me in Aptos RU Community on Telegram (@CrNepos) and on RU channel on Discord…

[romanv1812]

I am an individual validator from Ukraine. I have extensive experience as a Linux administrator and over 2 years of working with nodes on Cosmos and Polkadot networks.
Secure and reliable individual PoS/PoW validator, crypto enthusiast. 24hr management & monitoring! (Grafana + Prometeus + Telegram alerts)

[AIT2] romanv1812

I am an individual validator from Ukraine. I have extensive experience as a Linux administrator and over 2 years of working with nodes on Cosmos and Polkadot networks. Secure and reliable individual PoS/PoW validator, crypto enthusiast. 24hr management & monitoring! (Grafana + Prometeus + Telegram alerts) Hardware: Location - Hetzner DS, Equinix, Ovhcloud, Digitalocean Processor - AMD Ryzen 5950X (32 CPU, 128 RAM) Memory - 6.8 TB NVMe Bandwidth - 1 Gbit/s-Port …

[sergo]

[AIT2] SerGo Validator

Hi Everyone. I’m Sergii more known as SerGo, I have 18+ years of IT experience. Be a validator my hobby and passion. I have troubleshooting experience and like automatization. I’m a mainnet validator in different networks, dozens Testnets, Testnet restart coordinator in Solana and have some other roles that achieved for contribution in projects. I use dedicated servers in well-known datacenters with good support that react fast, so any possible issues can be fixed quickly as mon…

[aoh2105]

Hey-hey from !

[AIT2] Ozon - web3 enthusiast

Hey, I’m AOH (Ambassador of Hodl)! I have been familiar with blockchain and cryptocurrencies for about four years and 2 years already I’m actively contributing in those areas. I am currently noderunning Celestia, Starknet, Minima, Sui and would be really happy if I start contributing to Aptos! I’m from Ukraine and freely speak on ENG, UA, RU. You can find me on DS: AOH!#2105 I’m using 4cpu/8gb/160gb, located on Helsinki, Finland. GL!

[tnso888]

Hi all! My name is Igor, I’m from Moscow.
I have a great experience in:

• In cryptocurrency since 2009 (participated in bitcoin network, in the first years of its launch)
• I use linux since 2006
• I’m a validator of mainnetworks: Mina, Solana, Casper, Nim
• I participate in 10 different test networks

Speak Russian and English
Telegram: @drdren88
Discord: Igor888#4065

I use only dedicated servers (8-64 cores) in Hetzner, Contabo, Mevspace, Google Cloud data centers .
I’m at my monitor 12 hours a day, no days off =)

[phd]

[AIT2] PHD APTOS Validator

Hello aptonauts, My name is Paulo, I am an electrical engineer and I have been working in the field of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services for 10 years in Brazil. I’ve been in crypto since 2017 and I’m very interested in decentralized projects that focus on efficiency and that can deliver the best performance with the least use of resources, after reading a lot about Aptos no other project got me so excited about extreme scalability and ultra-low latency, all in layer 1 and maintainin…

[mihaibratu84]

[AIT2] Mihai Bratu VALIDATOR

Hi, I’m Mihai, and I am IT tehnician. I am a cryptoenthusiast and passionate about blockchain technology. I have been in the crypto for 3 years and have been a validator for 1 year. I have advanced knowledge of Linux, Windows Servers, VMs I’m from Romania and I also speak English, French, Spanish and a bit of German. I think I am suitable to become early validator, because crypto for me is a full time job. I live for crypto technology and spend between 14 and 16 hours a day in front of lap…

[pemulungonline]

LFG

[AIT2] pemulungonline

pick my validator than you and me to the moon, LFG

[onlyc]

Hello from Vietnam!

[AIT2] TechN9ne Validator

Hi, my name is Minh. I’m a fullstack developer. Have experiences in mining, investing, working with web3 & wallet apps from 2013. Almost all my develop skills are self-learned online. I always find it interesting in digging new technologies. I’m an individual validator from Vietnam. I speak Vietnamese & English. You can contact me via Discord @ Tech N9ne#3144 Technical details: I’m using cloud service from Hetzner running ubuntu 20.04 with docker. After testing many cloud providers, I can s…

[hogunasu1]

hello im Checy, im validator.
please support me yeaaa