A validator can have excellent uptime, and an RPC endpoint can respond to thousands of requests without any noticeable delay. From the outside, both seem perfectly reliable. But these numbers tell us surprisingly little about how the infrastructure is actually operated, or what happens when something goes wrong.

Have you visited the node101 Trust Center yet? From our ISO27001 certification to information security policy, you can find there all you need to verify our services. Trust is good, Verifying it yourself is better. 🔐 Take a look 👇

node101 is now ISO/IEC certified! We’re pleased to announce that all our RPC & whitelabel services are now ISO/IEC 27001 certified. Trust is everything, and no one should need to trust us. We thank all our partners and providers made this possible with us.

In 1970, George Akerlof showed how a used car market fills up with lemons. Buyers can't see quality, so they pay for the average car, and the owners of good cars stop selling. Some editors rejected the paper as too trivial. It later helped win him a Nobel. The same logic applies to how delegators choose validators.

Recently, 131 funds of 7 portfolio managers entered liquidation in BIST. Trust in markets is built from many parts: · records that can be inspected, · decisions that can be traced, · accountability that comes before the fact. This is where blockchain may make a difference.

The four column of the financial trust 🏛️ · Regulation · Certification · Transparency · Decentralization This month, we focus on the different layers of institutional trust in node101 blog. Explore how different pieces come together to make the new internet global 👇

Decentralization is often framed as the opposite of institutions. Is this really true? In this week’s article, we discuss what decentralization means for institutions: distributing trust instead of depending on a single operator.

We’re live on Arc! Arc mainnet RPC is now available with custom plans for your needs: ✅ Infrastructure across 3 continents ✅ Institutional-grade deployments ✅ Flexible access limits and node configurations ✅ Low-latency connectivity Explore the Arc RPC on node101 👇

A future in which stable dollars offer global access and higher yields raises a difficult question for every country: Why would people keep their savings in local-currency deposits? For Türkiye, this is not a distant scenario. It is a question of monetary sovereignty.

A future where anyone, anywhere, can access the US dollar from a phone sounds democratic. Stable dollars on Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Tron look like a new layer of financial freedom. But this new American dream is more centralized than it appears.