In Response to the All Nodes, White Label Providing Saga, The Cosmos Hub needs a concise list of Trusted Independent Operating Validators as a resource for the Community at large to reference

The Community needs to take initiative against White Label Providing With the growing concern that the Community should have regarding White Label providing services on the Hub and in the Cosmos in general. We need access to information on which validators are independantly running their validators, and are not providing the white label operating VaaS model. With the validator job, getting ever more complex as Replicated Security comes closer to launch, we as a community need to know who we can trust are independent and are also not offering the white label VaaS model. I fear that as Replicated Security catches on and more chains utilize the service, the lower bound validators may find it more profitable to outsource their validating to All Nodes or another white label provider, as it adds insurance, if a slashing or jailing happens to their validator, and it also cuts some of the overhead and most, if not all of the technical skills needed, for the validator utilizing the white label providing service, therefore limiting risk of a jailing or slashing offense. How can we as a community help to encourage better delegation, and in turn better validation practice? I believe…

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