Bridge validator count (M)

Wormhole's assessment for RD-F-148 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Bridge validator count (M) | 19 Guardian nodes. This is a relatively low count for a bridge securing $54B in cumulative message volume (though Portal locked TVL is currently $4.3M). 19 is above the 13-of-19 quorum. Validator diversity is distributed across major validator companies (Chorus One, Figment, Jump Crypto, Certus One, Everstake, Staked, P2P Validator, etc.). | Profile §6 guardian list; wormhole.com/docs/protocol/infrastructure/guardians/ | YELLOW (count of 19 is not extremely high; ...

Sources #

Curator note
Extracted from 03-oracle-deps.md — RD-F-148; no URL citedretrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Count the number of distinct validators or signers in the bridge's signer set (for non-LZ bridges; use F179 for LayerZero OFT).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol wormhole factor RD-F-148 score gray collected_at 2026-04-28 01:38:43