Krews | Validator Introduction

[Krews]

Overview

Validator Name: Krews
Operator ID(s): TBD

Website: https://krews.xyz
Twitter: https://x.com/krewstake

Infrastructure

Type: Bare metal
Regions: South America, Europe, Asia
Security Certs: None

Experience

Operating Since: 2023
Networks Validated: 7
Story Mainnet Uptime: None
Story Testnet (Iliad/Odyssey): Yes, Odyssey - 99.9%, Aeneid - 99.9%

Story Ecosystem Contributions

Our team contributes to the Story ecosystem through a combination of open, production-grade tooling, public infrastructure services, and early-stage ecosystem support.
This includes the Story Validator Dashboard, public RPC/API infrastructure for Story Mainnet and Aeneid, educational content, and active participation during the testnet phase. All tools and services listed below are publicly accessible and maintained in production.

Story Validator Dashboard

• Validator Directory & Explorer-like Validator Profiles

  • A comprehensive validators page allowing users and delegators to browse the full validator set.

  • Dedicated validator profile pages provide detailed, per-validator insights including operational status, performance metrics, commission details, address mappings, and historical behavior.

  • Designed to replicate the usability of a traditional explorer while extending it with deeper validator-focused analytics.

  • Link: https://story-dashboard.krews.xyz/story/validators

• Weekly Validator Status & Network Reports

  • Weekly aggregated views showing validator signing performance, delegation changes, and overall network dynamics.

  • Enables year/week filtering and sorting by key performance indicators, helping validators and delegators objectively assess consistency, reliability, and trends over time.

  • Useful for identifying sustained performance, changes in delegation distribution, and network-wide shifts.

  • Link: https://story-dashboard.krews.xyz/story/validator-status

• Snapshot Distribution (Archive & Pruned)

  • Provides an easy-to-use snapshot distribution interface supporting both Aeneid and Mainnet.

  • Pruned snapshots are updated hourly, while archive snapshots are updated daily, significantly reducing node synchronization time.

  • Link: https://story-dashboard.krews.xyz/story/snapshots

• Decentralization Monitoring & Infrastructure Transparency

  • A dedicated decentralization page visualizing the current distribution of validators across monikers, infrastructure providers, and geographic locations.

  • Helps identify infrastructure concentration and supports informed decisions aimed at improving network decentralization and resilience.

  • Link: Krews — Story Validator Dashboard

• Validator Expansion Program Performance Results

  • Integrated dedicated dashboard views displaying VEP performance results during the Aeneid testnet.

  • Provides transparent, round-based performance visibility for validators participating in expansion and competition phases.

  • Publicly available results:

    • Round 1: https://story-dashboard.krews.xyz/story-aeneid/expansion/round_1

    • Round 2: https://story-dashboard.krews.xyz/story-aeneid/expansion/round_2

All components of the Story Validator Dashboard are actively maintained and continuously improved.
Our goal is to strengthen the Story ecosystem by providing clear operational visibility, actionable validator analytics, and tools that support decentralization and long-term network health, beyond basic validation duties.

Public RPC / API Infrastructure

• Public RPC & API Services (Mainnet & Aeneid)

  • Our team has provided public RPC and API infrastructure for both Story Mainnet and Aeneid Testnet since their early stages, supporting developers, applications, and ecosystem tooling from day one.

  • All endpoints are publicly accessible and listed on Chainlist, ensuring discoverability and ease of integration for the broader community.

• Mainnet Endpoints

  • EVM RPC: https://story-evm-rpc.krews.xyz/

  • Tendermint RPC: https://story-rpc.krews.xyz/

  • REST API: https://story-api.krews.xyz/

• Aeneid Testnet Endpoints

  • EVM RPC: https://aeneid-evm-rpc.krews.xyz/

  • Tendermint RPC: https://story-aeneid-rpc.krews.xyz/

  • REST API: https://story-aeneid-api.krews.xyz/

• Proven Scale & Reliability

  • Since mainnet launch, our public RPC infrastructure has served over 1 billion total requests across Story networks.

  • Over the last 115 days alone, our Mainnet EVM RPC has successfully handled 400+ million requests, demonstrating sustained usage and reliability under real production load.

  • Daily request metrics are transparently tracked for Mainnet EVM RPC and available for review (source: Cloudflare GraphQL API):

    • story-evm-rpc.krews.xyz requests by day - Google Sheets

Educational Content & Ecosystem Awareness

• Authored and published an educational Medium article introducing Story Protocol’s vision and use cases around intellectual property on-chain.
• Article: https://medium.com/krews/intellectual-property-on-the-blockchain-the-present-and-future-of-story-protocol-f7c8cf7eef4f

Testnet Participation & Validator Competitions

• Actively participated in Story testnet validator competitions involving both technical and social tasks.
• Selected as one of the winners of Validator Race-1 and Validator Race-2, demonstrating consistent technical performance, reliability, and engagement during the testnet phase.

Why Delegate to Us?

We combine proven validator operations with long-term ecosystem support. From testnet to mainnet, we’ve delivered production-grade tooling and public infrastructure used daily by the Story community, with a strong focus on reliability, transparency, and decentralization.