Staking Facilities

Staking Facilities is a Munich-based staking infrastructure provider operating validator nodes across eight networks, including Solana, Ethereum, Aptos, Celestia, Chainlink, Monad, and Sui. Its core business is non-custodial staking: users delegate assets while retaining full control, and the company runs the underlying validator infrastructure.

The company's key differentiator is its self-built physical infrastructure, including over 8,000 km of private fiber, designed for low latency and high throughput. It also claims to be independent and bootstrapped, avoiding VC backing. The market pain point it addresses is the trade-off between security and convenience in staking: many users face risks from custodial services or unreliable validators. Staking Facilities mitigates this through transparent, self-operated hardware and a selective approach to chain support, only validating networks aligned with its values.

In the past six months (March–September 2026), the company has been active in ecosystem development. It hosted a track at the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon focused on building a "Decentralized NASDAQ," joined an investment round for Raiku, and published a dashboard for the Monad Foundation after Monad's mainnet launch. It also posted job openings for an Operations Project Manager and a Systems Engineer, indicating ongoing operational expansion. However, its public web traffic is very low (approximately 134 monthly visits), suggesting limited brand visibility despite its technical work.