About Us

Meet the Team behind Vladika’s reliable validator operations.

Natalia

Legal & Operations Lead

Legal strategist and communications lead. Connecting infrastructure with accountability, and making sure Vladika stands on solid legal and operational ground.

Denys

Web3 Systems & Automation Engineer

Builds and maintains our staking platform and wallet integrations. Develops monitoring systems and automated failover to ensure continuous validator uptime.

Vlad

Infrastructure & Systems Engineer

Leads server management and validator architecture. Oversees uptime, performance optimization, and secure, stable operations at all times.

Our Story

Our journey started in February 2021, when we launched our validator on the Solana testnet. Back then, Solana was still young, experimental, and evolving rapidly. Testnet wasn’t about profit – it was about learning. We spent months refining infrastructure, optimizing performance, understanding validator economics, and building operational discipline. Every restart, every upgrade, every epoch taught us something.

By the time we moved forward, we weren’t guessing. We were ready.

In June 2021, Vladika officially joined the Solana mainnet. This wasn’t just a technical milestone – it was a commitment. From that moment, we became responsible for real stake, real delegators, and real network participation. Running a validator on mainnet means 24/7 monitoring, rapid response to incidents, constant performance tuning, and full accountability. And that’s exactly how we’ve operated ever since.

Behind Vladika stands a team of three people.

We are not an anonymous node.
We are not a “set it and forget it” operation.

Our team combines legal oversight, infrastructure expertise, and day-to-day operational management. Each of us has a defined role – from validator performance and server management to communication, compliance, and long-term strategy. This structure allows us to stay fast, transparent, and disciplined.

Over the years, we built a reputation for stability, clean validation, and consistent uptime. We chose not to chase shortcuts, not to participate in harmful MEV behavior, and not to compromise network integrity for short-term gain. Our validator is publicly verifiable and recognized across independent analytics platforms.

Then, on April 1, 2025, we made a decisive move.

We permanently set our validator commission to 0%.

Not temporarily. Not as a marketing trick.
Permanently.

Since that day, 100% of staking rewards and 100% of MEV rewards go directly to our delegators. Vladika does not take a cut. We earn from block production and from operating efficiently – not from reducing delegator yield.

We believe that if you trust us with your SOL, you deserve the full value your stake generates.

Today, Vladika continues to operate as an independent, high-performance Solana validator – built on experience that started in testnet, hardened in mainnet, and refined through years of real network participation.

Block by block.
Epoch by epoch.
Steady. Transparent. Built to last.