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Blockchains looking to build applications for the real economy ultimately face the same question: will your technology be able to handle its many demands?
Following the seamless launch of Hayabusa, we at VeChain make our position known: A resounding — YES!
Validators and Delegators sit at the center of VeChain’s new consensus, forging a symbiotic relationship that mine blocks and secures the network in exchange for rewards.
Institutional actors — some of the most important players in the crypto sector — are key to this new phase of VeChainThor, integrating infrastructural tools, products and services, while running and maintaining Validators at the heart of the network.
What is emerging is a fortified foundation, ready to deliver scalable adoption of blockchain from a battle-tested, proven technology layer.
With the community now able to actively delegate to, and earn rewards from, these actors — the next question for VET holders is simple: which operator will earn their stake for the long-term?
Below, we highlight some of the currently announced institutional Validators vying for your collateral. We look forward to introducing more over the coming weeks and months!
Meria is a specialist in staking and infrastructure, with its entire business focused on running validators. Founded in 2017 in Metz, France, it has grown from the “Just Mining” brand into a fully-fledged, institutional-grade platform that operates validators across multiple networks.
Today, Meria supports a large and growing user base and manages hundreds of millions of euros in assets, with a team of dedicated professionals focused on staking, custody, and on-chain services. It is registered with the French AMF as a Digital Asset Service Provider, making it one of the first regulated crypto platforms in France.
For a VET holder, that combination of regulation, scale, and validator focus is the key point. Meria’s core business is running validators and protecting delegated assets at scale, which is exactly the kind of profile you want inside VeChain’s institutional foundation.
Keyrock has been building digital asset market infrastructure since 2017, when it was founded in Brussels to focus on market making, OTC, and options trading for digital assets. Over the years, it has grown from a small trading firm into a global player with dedicated systems and teams for tokenized markets.
Today, Keyrock provides liquidity to more than 85 centralized and decentralized venues worldwide. Its team of around 170 professionals operates across 37 countries, with entities in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, and the United States.
For VET holders, that footprint is the key signal. A global, well-resourced market infrastructure provider with years of operating history and a presence in major financial hubs has chosen to help validate VeChain, treating the network as part of the same critical stack as the markets it serves.
Draper Dragon is a cross-border venture fund that has been investing in founders since 2006. It focuses on early-stage companies at the forefront of Web3 and emerging technologies, with a presence across Silicon Valley, Asia, and other key innovation hubs.
As part of the wider Draper ecosystem, Draper Dragon draws on two decades of venture experience and a track record that includes multiple technology unicorns and major infrastructure plays. It understands which technologies endure and how to support them as they grow from early concepts to long-term infrastructure.
By appearing in VeChain’s validator set, Draper Dragon is not just an early backer watching from a distance. It is aligning its brand and reputation with VeChain’s consensus layer. For VET holders, that is a clear signal of long-term confidence in the network and a strong reason to consider it as a destination for delegation.
Fenbushi Capital positions itself as Asia’s pioneering Web3-focused asset management firm. Established in 2015, it manages a multi-billion-dollar asset base dedicated to blockchain and Web3.
The firm is known for its early support of Ethereum and now holds a global portfolio of hundreds of companies, including many of the industry’s core infrastructure leaders. Fenbushi consistently backs foundational technologies that sit at the base of the ecosystem rather than short-lived applications at the edge.
Its mission is to support startups, drive industry growth, and help shape the future of blockchain technology through research and investment. For VET holders, that boils down to a simple point. A large, research-driven, infrastructure-focused asset manager has chosen to help secure VeChain in the Hayabusa era. That is exactly the kind of institution you want as part of the network’s security.
Step back for a moment and recognize the pattern. A regulated European staking provider with a business built on validators. A seasoned builder of tokenized markets. Long-horizon venture capital and a pioneering Web3 asset manager that has spent years backing core infrastructure across the industry.
Together, they are more than names on a page; they are key forces behind VeChain’s Hayabusa era, carrying the economic weight of the network so builders, enterprises, and public sector partners can rely on it.
Yet this role is not only reserved for institutions. In our Delegated-Proof-of-Stake model, you are an essential part of the structure. By claiming a StarGate NFT, staking your VET, and delegating to Validators, you decide which of these institutions carries more of the load.
Your choices shape the distribution of stake, the level of decentralization, and earn a share of block production rewards while contributing directly to the security and resilience of the chain.
Go to StarGate, stake your VET, and choose your Validator.
In doing so, you stand alongside some of the industry’s strongest institutional partners and help build the sustainable, real-world ready backbone that Hayabusa was designed to deliver.
Keep building!
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