Kintsugi

Kintsugi is a validator operator in the Cosmos ecosystem, running block-producing nodes under the Kintsugi Nodes name on proof-of-stake networks including Juno and Namada, and offering delegators RPC access, snapshots and IBC relay services. It absorbs the dependence of on-chain security on professional operations: nodes must stay online, upgrade on schedule and avoid double-signing penalties, work handled through owned infrastructure, monitoring and alerting. Economically it follows the standard delegated proof-of-stake structure, taking a 5% to 10% commission while delegators receive block rewards and fees in proportion to stake, with commission and maximum change published on-chain.

Its role is infrastructure provider rather than protocol, with revenue tied directly to delegated stake. At Namada's genesis its voting power was about 7%, it holds roughly 2.2 million staked tokens on Juno, and its clients are mainly token holders and development teams needing reliable RPC.