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Research, incident reviews, and staking operations guides from the FortisX team
Yearly Review
8 min read
Dec 18, 2019
2019 Review: Validator Risk Lessons and Allocation Principles That Held Up
2019 made staking feel like operations 2019 was a year where staking moved from “feature on a wallet screen” to an operating environment with its own tempo. Networks shipped u...
Risk Clinic
8 min read
Sep 26, 2019
Commission Games: How Fee Changes Can Distort Delegation Flows
Fee changes move stake faster than most teams expect Commission looks like a simple percentage on a validator page. In reality it behaves like a public policy lever. The momen...
Allocation Notes
8 min read
Sep 18, 2019
Building a Validator Scoring Model (v1): Signals, Weights, and Guardrails
Why teams end up building a scoring model Validator selection usually starts with a shortlist and a gut feel. You look at uptime, scan a profile, read a few updates, pick a fe...
Ops Playbook
7 min read
Aug 14, 2019
Post-Mortems for Staking Incidents: A Practical Template
Why post-mortems matter in staking ops Staking incidents tend to leave two kinds of damage. The first is obvious: missed duties, degraded performance, delayed payouts, a suppo...
Data Methodology
9 min read
Jun 18, 2019
Indexer Drift 101: Backfills, Reorgs, and Consistency Guarantees
Why “the indexer says X” eventually becomes a production incident The first version of an indexer usually feels magical. You ingest blocks, you materialize events into tables,...
Evergreen
7 min read
May 20, 2019
Validator Communications: Status Pages, Incident Updates, and Trust Signals
Operators earn trust in the hours nobody wants to talk about You can run a validator for months and barely speak in public. Blocks arrive, rewards settle, dashboards stay gree...
Data Methodology
8 min read
May 16, 2019
Detecting Concentration Risk: Measuring Stake Distribution and Drift
Concentration rarely announces itself Concentration risk in Proof-of-Stake has an awkward trait: it grows quietly. A network can look healthy on the surface, rewards can keep ...
Protocol Updates
7 min read
Mar 14, 2019
Cosmos Hub Mainnet Goes Live: Delegation, Unbonding, and Early-Stage Risks
Mainnet changes the meaning of everyday staking actions A mainnet launch is a subtle kind of milestone. From the outside, the UI looks familiar: you can delegate, you can unbo...
Research Note
9 min read
Jan 17, 2019
PoS Landscape 2019: What Operators and Delegators Should Track
A year where staking starts to feel like infrastructure By 2019, Proof-of-Stake is past the stage where the only question is “does it work.” Plenty of networks already produce...
Checklist
9 min read
Dec 12, 2018
Staking Due Diligence Checklist (v1): What to Verify Before Delegating
A quick click that turns into a long relationship Delegation feels effortless. One screen, one choice, one confirmation. The relationship that follows can last for months, som...
Allocation Notes
7 min read
Nov 21, 2018
Diversification Rules Inside One Network: Caps, Floors, and Cooldowns
The part of diversification nobody tells you about The first time you build a validator set, diversification feels like a research problem. You read dashboards, you compare pe...
Evergreen
7 min read
Nov 7, 2018
Validator Fee Models: Fixed vs Dynamic Commission and Incentive Alignment
Why a single percentage turns into a long-term policy When you delegate for the first time, commission feels like a small detail. You pick a validator, you see a rate, you mov...