Welcome to Antorai, an Oraichain validator node originating from the very first spin of Oraichain testnet. Behind this validator there is neither big money nor a big organisation, but just love for the technology and belief in Oraichain project.
Antorai validator is located in Finland, in the ultra modern data center of Hetzner Online. Yet close to Helsinki, the center is actually located amongst fields and farms near a small town named Tuusula. To ensure the performance and reliability of the node a dedicated server with AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Hexa-Core CPU, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, 2x512 GB NVMe SSD and 1 Gbit/s bandwidth was selected to do the job. A snapshot of the server software is taken regularly for a quick re-setup in case of something seriously wrong in the network or the server.
Finland is the promised land of data centers and known also for its thick undersea fibers (C-Lion project) to the rest of the world, so maximized band and minimum latency to the rest of the world are guaranteed. Did you know that there are huge Google and Yandex data centers in the small country of Finland?
The validator is protected by strict firewall rules and having the standard ssh connection blocked. A tailored shell script is continuously monitoring the VPS status like CPU load, RAM and disk usage as well as the validator status and performance in one minute interval. There are different text message alerts sent in case of anything alarming noticed.
Antorai supports now also automatic restaking of rewards, compounded on top of your stake, automatically checked daily. Just go to https://restake.app/oraichain and activate automatic redelegation.
The general minimum fee of 3% possible to show on the validator dashboard is applied to Antorai. If the minimum is raised some day we'll naturally follow, but you can trust you pay just the minimum today and in the future.
The validator is run by Anttu, an Orai community member since day one. Anttu is a Finnish IT engineer, Linux/crypto hobbyist, entrepreneur and a father of five. When not at keyboard or with his family Anttu goes distance running - often barefoot.
Firstly, the mascot of the node is Essi the Beagle, born in August 2017. She is Anttu's running partner
and probably the kindest dog on Earth.
Secondly, the British Mars lander named Beagle 2 supposedly landed on Mars but lost connection to Earth
and could never be contacted. (Ten years later it was located by a NASA hi-res camera, in good shape but
antennas damaged.) Going even further to history, Beagle 2 got its name from HMS Beagle, a sail vessel built
in 1820 and sailed around the globe. Also Charles Darwin was on board and wrote a book "The Voyage Of The Beagle".
Anttu and his wife donate a nice part of the crypto income regularly to charity like Unicef, children's clinics etc, so by delegating to Antorai you also help people in need.
In case of questions about delegating, the current state or strategy of Antorai - or anything related, feel free to contact @anttut on Telegram or Anttu#1200 on Discord. You can also join in the support group of Anttu's validators in Telegram.
Come and delegate by simply clicking the Delegate button on the Oraichain validators page and find the beagle logo.