what's SmartStake?

SmartStake is a professional blockchain validator and infrastructure provider operating since 2019 across over 35 proof-of-stake networks, primarily in the Cosmos ecosystem. It secures chains such as Cosmos Hub (ATOM), Osmosis (OSMO), Injective (INJ), Celestia (TIA), dYdX (DYDX), Terra (LUNA), Akash (AKT), and others using bare-metal servers, automated monitoring, redundancy, and high uptime exceeding 99.9%. Services include competitive fixed commissions, auto-compounding via integrations like Restake, active governance participation with transparent voting history, and IBC relayer operations across 15+ networks to facilitate interchain communication. Complementing validation, SmartStake provides feature-rich analytics at analytics.smartstake.io, offering real-time and historical data on validator performance, network statistics, decentralization metrics (e.g., Gini, Nakamoto coefficients), staking dynamics, transaction volumes, active addresses, governance proposals, and IBC activity. Users can customize dashboards, compare up to 10 networks across 50+ metrics, generate AI-powered insights, track liveliness trends, and assess validator health, empowering informed delegation and ecosystem monitoring.