White-Label Solana Validators

A white-label validator is a Solana validator node that operates under your brand. You control the identity, commission rate, and staking relationships while we handle all hardware, software, monitoring, and maintenance. Your delegators see your brand — not ours.

We can have your validator live on mainnet within 48 hours. This includes hardware provisioning, Solana client installation, identity key generation, and on-chain registration. We handle the entire bootstrapping and catchup process.

We guarantee 99.9%+ uptime with automatic failover to hot standby nodes. Our infrastructure runs on bare metal in Tier 1 data centers with redundant power, networking, and storage.

Yes. You hold your own identity and vote keys. There is zero vendor lock-in — you can migrate your validator to another provider at any time without losing your on-chain identity or delegators.

We support both Agave and Firedancer clients. We can run whichever client you prefer, or we can advise based on your performance goals. Client upgrades are handled by our team with zero downtime.

Rewards accrue natively through Solana's staking mechanism. You set your own commission rate and reward distribution schedule. We can also help with LST integration for liquid staking products.

Yes. AllenHark runs the validator under your exchange's brand and exposes APIs your platform integrates with — users stake to your validator from inside your custody flow, and the exchange keeps the commission. No hardware, no infra team, no protocol upgrades. See our exchanges guide at /managed-validator/for-exchanges.

The standard zero-downtime path is: pre-flight checklist, vote-key handover to the new node, snapshot + warm catchup on the new node, traffic cutover via hot-standby promotion, then post-migration validation. AllenHark runs this playbook end-to-end for migrating operators. Full migration walkthrough at /managed-validator/migration.

Identity and vote keys are generated and held in hardware-isolated environments with strict access controls, least-privilege ops, full audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit, and slashing-protection-aware key handling. We use change-management discipline on every config and binary upgrade.

Yes. We can apply OFAC SDN address screening at the validator's transaction-processing layer for operators that require sanctions-aware infrastructure. Coverage details on our security page at /managed-validator/security.

The default model is: customer sets and keeps the validator commission, AllenHark charges a flat monthly infra fee. We also offer revenue-share arrangements when AllenHark contributes to delegation acquisition, and performance-tier pricing for high-stake validators.

We run the Jito client by default, which routes MEV tips through the Jito block engine and pays them out to stakers as additional yield on top of native rewards. Combined with leader-slot tuning and vote-timing optimization, MEV-aware delegation typically uplifts staker APY by a measurable margin versus a vanilla Agave validator.

Yes. We support pairing a dedicated white-label validator with a liquid-staking-token mint, including Sanctum and SPL stake-pool integrations. The LST is branded as yours; the validator backs it. See /managed-validator/lst for the full operator's guide.

Real-time uptime, vote credits, skipped slots, leader-slot performance, MEV tips collected, stake activation, delegator-level reports, and SLA compliance. Read-only access for your team; brandable for client-facing share-outs.

Under 48 hours from contract to mainnet. Hardware is pre-provisioned, the on-chain registration is handled by our team, and the catchup process to current slot is managed end-to-end.

Every managed validator ships with a hot standby on separate hardware in the same region. Failover is automatic, slashing-protection-aware, and typically completes within seconds — well inside the slot-skip tolerance threshold.

Both Agave and Firedancer are supported. You can specify a client preference; the default is Agave for production stability and Firedancer where performance characteristics warrant it. We can switch clients with zero downtime via the standby node.

Client upgrades are scheduled in advance, tested on the standby node first, then rolled to the primary via a hot-standby promotion that incurs no missed votes. Full change-management trail per upgrade.