So I Did a Research About Solana Ecosystem

Here are my findings;

Solana have around 1977 active validators and 282 delinquent validators which means they are punished and not earning any rewards.

413.7M SOL Staked which is approximately $14.5B and Coinbase Cloud is top validator with 2% stake.

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Client diversity seems good since %83 of the clients are up to date.

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Here is the troubling part: Data Center Concentration.

Validators with most voting power are concentrated in Equinix, Hetzner and Amazon with total of %58 of voting power. If these three hosting provider decide to remove all validators or ban them then Solana network will lost its %58 voting power.

https://preview.redd.it/5a80u2nm04n91.png?328&format=png&auto=webp&s=ebde51e177322783000a0a4617468485246a5c53

I am conducting research for each crypto project and realizing that decentralization is way too far or difficult concept to conduct.

So far i only conduct analysis on SOL and BNB but hoping to add more.

BNB: https://chainparrot.com/bnb-validators.html

SOL: https://chainparrot.com/sol-validators.html

https://chainparrot.com/blockchains-by-number-of-nodes.html