List of Ronin Validators | Airdrops and Rewards Soon?

Recently, web3 gaming-focused guild Yield Guild Games (YGG), which is a Ronin validator, did a snapshot of those who delegated and staked their $RON assets in its node. 

This hinted at an upcoming airdrop with the possibility of giving away $YGG to $RON stakers on the YGG validator node.

As time passes by, the community speculates that more Ronin validators will be hosting airdrops to $RON stakers in the future. 

In this article, BitPinas listed the Ronin validators so that you can choose where to stake your $RON so you will have a chance to be eligible for these potential airdrops. 

Read more: Play to Airdrop Tokens | Top 8 Game Airdrops to Farm and Ron Token Axie Infinity Guide | How to Farm and Earn RON via Staking and Providing Liquidity

Disclaimer: The writer, who was once an Axie Infinity: Classic scholar, swapped his $SLP to $RON and has been staking $RON to validators.

What is a RON Validator?

A validator plays an important role in a proof-of-stake (PoS)-based blockchain. It is because by staking their tokens, they have the ability to validate transactions and maintain the security of the blockchain. 

“Ronin validators are the backbone of the Ronin ecosystem. Validators play a critical role in ensuring the security and reliability of the Ronin Network by validating transactions and preventing malicious actors from compromising the network,” the Ronin ecosystem wrote. 

To be a Ronin validator, interested entities, DAOs, web3-gaming guilds, and influencers must hold and stake a certain amount of $RON. A more detailed guide on how to be a Ronin validator can be found here.

Of course, the Ronin ecosystem will never leave the blockchain’s validators unappreciated. Ronin validators are incentivized through a rewards system in which newly issued $RON are divided and issued among validators and their delegators.

The delegators are the ones who stake their $RON to participate in securing and stabilizing the network without running a node. Instead, they delegate their $RON to validators. 

Not anyone is allowed to be a validator, but everyone is welcome to be a delegator. 

To learn how to stake and delegate $RON, go to Ron Token Axie Infinity Guide | How to Farm and Earn Ron with SLP, AXS, WETH, Stake, Add Liquidity Pool on Ronin

Choosing the Right Validator to Delegate Your $RON: A Guide

As of this writing, there are 22 validators and nine candidates. Candidates are those who are still applying to run a validator node, and the date and assurance of the approval are still unsure. 

To delegate $RON, delegators should go to https://app.roninchain.com/staking?t=validator and choose which validator they will delegate their token to. But deciding which validator can give better rewards is not easy. 

On the staking feature of the Ronin app, the list of validators also shows the total stake, the commission, the APR, and the uptime. But what are these things? How are these words connected to better rewards? 

The “Total Stake” is the total number of $RON staked by the delegators and the validators. This means that the higher the staked $RON for that validator, the more delegators trust their service. 

The “Comm.” refers to the validator’s commission rate. This means that this rate is the percentage of the block reward that a validator receives before distributing the remaining rewards to their delegators.

The “APR” is the annual performance rate. The higher this rate is, the higher the stake rewards that the validator will receive. 

The “Uptime,” on the other hand, is the consistency of that validator in running their node. 

Thus, when choosing which validator could give you better rewards: 

• Choose ‌validators with higher uptime and total stake, as they show better performance, resulting in more delegators trusting the validator. 
• The smaller the commission rate of the validator, the higher the percentage that will be allocated to delegators as a reward. 
• The higher the APR, the more rewards delegators can receive. 
• And since the block reward is distributed to delegators, the fewer delegators to that validator means fewer rivals for rewards. 

How to know which validator will do an airdrop?

The best way to know is to observe the Twitter accounts of the validators as they normally hints of an upcoming airdrop. More on this after the list below.

A List of Ronin Validators, In No Particular Order 

(As of March 15, 2024)

Luganodes

• Total Stake: 14,657,071 $RON
• Uptime: 99.98%
• Commission Rate: 5%
• APR: 8.87% / 9.80% 
• Number of Delegators: 9,296

Ronin Catalyst

• Total Stake: 9,833,613 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 5%
• APR: 13.22% / 13.39% 
• Number of Delegators: 9,234

StableNode

• Total Stake: 9,774,385 $RON
• Uptime: 99.97%
• Commission Rate: 8%
• APR: 12.88% / 12.31% 
• Number of Delegators: 15,439

Mystic Node

• Total Stake: 9,698,968 $RON
• Uptime: 99.998%
• Commission Rate: 5%
• APR: 13.41% / 13.10% 
• Number of Delegators: 6,871

Sky Mavis GV

• Total Stake: 10,211,710 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 12.06% / 13.63% 
• Number of Delegators: 11,954

Yield Guild Games

• Total Stake: 8,828,007 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 12.40% / 13.19% 
• Number of Delegators: 10,375

METAT8 

• Total Stake: 8663,748 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 14.22% / 14.02% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,037

Animoca Brands

• Total Stake: 8,714,986 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 12.57% / 14.54% 
• Number of Delegators: 4,470

BigYak Axie Club (BYAC)

• Total Stake: 9,302,657 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 7%
• APR: 13.69% / 14.48% 
• Number of Delegators: 8,722

CyberKongz

• Total Stake: 8,897,197 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 13.85% / 11.94% 
• Number of Delegators: 11,843

Google

• Total Stake: 10,002,058 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 12.32% / 13.83% 
• Number of Delegators: 8,028

Owl.eth

• Total Stake: 8,568,798 $RON
• Uptime: 99.75%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 14.38% / 14.66% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,310

aur x artic x cloudwhite

• Total Stake: 8,352,984 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 144.75% / 14.56% 
• Number of Delegators: 1,488

Nansen

• Total Stake: 8,740,098 $RON
• Uptime: 99.98%
• Commission Rate: 10%
• APR: 14.10% / 14.78% 
• Number of Delegators: 4994

EthernityHub.tech

• Total Stake: 8,210,955 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 5%
• APR: 15.85% / 13.39% 
• Number of Delegators: 6,004

0xak.eth

• Total Stake: 7,939,42 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 8%
• APR: 15.86% / 14.53% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,320

Non-Fugible.com

• Total Stake: 7,260,045 $RON
• Uptime: 99.98%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 15.08% /14.58% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,141

AxieChat

• Total Stake: 7,289,127 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 15.02% / 14.55% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,375

DappRadar DAO

• Total Stake: 7,378,168 $RON
• Uptime: 99.96%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 14.84% / 14.60% 
• Number of Delegators: 2,342

Moku

• Total Stake: 7,305,550 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 14.99% / 14.56% 
• Number of Delegators: 4,034

Coco_Bear

• Total Stake: 7,153,653 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 15.31% / 14.36% 
• Number of Delegators: 2.552

Community Gaming

• Total Stake: 7,265,281 $RON
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Commission Rate: 20%
• APR: 15.07% / 14.64% 
• Number of Delegators: 5,098

Ronin Validator Airdrops

The following have announced or hinted an airdrop.

Plots.Finance Airdrop

• Plots.Finance has disclosed plans for an airdrop of its $PLOTS token to Ronin Network $RON stakers on the Yield Guild Games validator. The snapshot will be on March 31, 2024 7am EST.

Pixels

• Pixels distributed airdrops to all Ronin stakers irregardless of whichever validator they chose to stake to.

Cyberkongz

Cyberkongz airdropped $BANANA airdrop to those who staked in their validator.

YGG

YGG airdropped $YGG to those who staked in their validator.

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