Trusted Node is a decentralized, non-custodial validator service and governance hub enabling users to participate in PoS blockchain rewards and governance without the need to personally operate the validator nodes. Trusted Node DAO and its partners own and operate an array of validator nodes. Users have the ability to delegate coins to their chosen PoS networks, and rewards are subsequently distributed back to them. Depending on the platform’s feature utilized, rewards will be paid in blockchains’ native token, liquid derivatives, or Trusted Node token (TNODE). 

Trusted Node builds a range of incentives and state-of-the-art UX to facilitate staking and voting and improve global PoS security. The platform offers users intuitive, multichain access to native (D)PoS protocols. It allows anyone to directly participate in a wide range of PoS protocols without personally running validator nodes. It also increases staking incentives through a variety of yield multipliers inspired by DeFi solutions. Finally, it unlocks staking liquidity, enabling both PoS and DeFi staking and allowing for capital flow between protocols rather than competition. 

Trusted Node DAO represents different trusted validators that can be staked by the Trusted Node user base in exchange for automated rewards and access to PoS governance. Thus it can improve the physical and economic resilience of the global PoS network by:

• Increasing the number of nodes
• Diversifying validators
• Increasing the amount of staked coins and the cost of PoS attacks. 

Unlike similar services, Trusted Node staking is decentralized, non-custodial, and run by a Trusted Node DAO.