Bridge validator co-hosting

Centrifuge's assessment for RD-F-150 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

19 Wormhole guardians are named independent institutional staking operators (01node, ChainLayer, Chorus One, Everstake, Figment, P2P Validator, Staked, Staking Facilities, Staking Fund, xLabs, MCF, Forbole, HashKey Cloud, Inotel, MoonletWallet, syncnode, Triton, ChainodeTech, Google Cloud). No evidence of systematic ASN or datacenter co-hosting concentration above 30% threshold found. Full per-guardian OSINT-level ASN enumeration not determinable from available public documentation.

Sources #

URL
https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2024/01/30/guardians-of-the-wormhole-the-superheroes-protecting-blockchain-bridges/retrieved 2026-04-28
URL
https://wormhole.com/blog/wormhole-integrates-google-cloud-into-guardian-security-systemretrieved 2026-04-28
URL
https://wormhole.com/docs/protocol/infrastructure/guardians/retrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Determine whether validators share ASN or data-center/custodian per on-chain and OSINT inference.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol centrifuge factor RD-F-150 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-30 21:19:10