Calibr Labs

Ah yes, the lava floor. The thing you do not want to touch!   The “lava floor” is shorthand for one of the requirements a validator must contend with in order to be a validator and earn money.  A validator must be active to be earning and they do this by having enough tokens delegated to their validator.  How much is enough? Well that depends on the chain – each chain determines for themselves how many active validator slots exist and the number can be modified with a vote. If a chain has determined to have 100 validator slots, then the 100 validators who are running an active node that have the most tokens delegated to their validator will fill those slots. As you can imagine, the list is weighted heavily at the top and then validators get smaller in size (fewer tokens delegated) as you go down the list.     So, what’s on the mind of the validators that are in the last few slots? The lava floor!     In this example, if a new validator brings their node online and has more tokens than the 100th validator, that 100th validator gets kicked off the active list …

Before we dive into the story of Calibr, we wanted to take a moment and tip our hat to Osmosis and Cosmos. These two chains and the communities around them helped introduce us to the IBC ecosystem. Folks like Tom from EcoStake, Sunny, Jack Zampolin., Cryptocito, Jacob Gadikian, the Game of Nodes crew and many others are the ones we learned from and take inspiration from. So, to all of you, thank you – you’ve changed our lives by introducing us to this whole new world and you are a huge part of the reason we could create Calibr.   In April of 2022, Calibr was “officially” formed when we validated our first block on the Chihuahua chain. There’s quotes on the word officially because we operate Calibr pseudonymously – meaning we, the founders, have personas, CryptoGardener and PurpleBuddha, but there is no official business entity. We do this to protect ourselves against influence on how we operate our validator or other aspects of our operations.   We picked the chain Chihuahua because of the low entry cost for starting a new validator – around $10,000 USD at the time – and because it offered a well written guide on …

From validating to AI art generation to building a gamified NFT gallery, there’s a story to tell.   We’ll be using these blog posts and other parts of the website to share the journey with our community. See All Blog Posts