Securing the Solana network — Singapore primary, Dallas failover. Zero-downtime operations and deep ecosystem participation.
297,831.92 SOL
Staked
602
Epochs
99.4%
Voting Rate
100.00%
Uptime (30d)
65.19
IBRL Score
Battle-Hardened Infrastructure
Singapore primary + Dallas hot-standby — both AMD EPYC with NVMe RAID storage. Zero-downtime maintenance: every upgrade uses a live hot swap, never a restart. 99.4% 30-day vote credit rate. 100.00% 30-day uptime. Operating since May 2023.
DoubleZero Network
Connected to the DoubleZero high-performance validator network with low-latency IBRL multicast. Active Edge Publisher — broadcasting leader shreds directly to the DoubleZero feed. IBRL Score: 65.19.
Proven Across 602+ Epochs
602+ epochs of continuous operation since May 2023. Singapore primary + Dallas hot-standby failover. Validator keypairs secured via multi-signature authorization through Squads.so. 99.4% 30-day vote credit rate. 100.00% 30-day uptime.
Liquid Staking with digitalSOL
Stake SOL and receive digitalSOL — a liquid staking token powered by Sanctum. Earn staking rewards while keeping your SOL liquid for DeFi. Flexible stake and unstake via Sanctum's liquidity pool.
Active participant in 10+ stake pools and delegation programs. Building infrastructure, contributing code, and strengthening the network.
Jito BAM Operator
Block Assembly Marketplace
DoubleZero Multicast & Edge Publisher
Digital Energy RPC Portal
SFDP Approved
Xandeum Top-Performing Validator
Selected for Xandeum's Exclusive Network of Top-Performing Validators
JagPool
Snapshot Provider & Shred Publisher
Marinade Institutional
Delegators can stake natively to our validator with their favorite solana wallet or stake to our validator by buying our liquid staking token, digitalSOL, which allows for increased rewards and instant stake and unstake of SOL.
We will be offering extra rewards to our native stakers based on how much SOL delegated and length of time as well as referral rewards. Planning on also adding some element of gameification of staking to our validator.
Total Staked
3,978.37 SOL
Total Holders
83
1 digitalSOL = 1.2494 SOL of underlying stake
Holders have earned 24.94% above starting value through accumulated staking yield since launch.
DoubleZero Edge Publisher
Day-1 Edge Publisher broadcasting leader shreds to the DoubleZero multicast feed. Technical writing on validator infrastructure, network performance, and decentralization.
NCN Governance
One of 11 NCN governance validators on Solana mainnet. Active contributor to solana-foundation/solana-governance — 13 merged PRs and 11 issues filed to date, including the NCN operator quickstart, monitoring and alerting guidance, and architecture documentation — one of 16 contributors to the official repo
Infrastructure Provider
Open Source
8+ published GitHub gists covering validator operations, monitoring, and tooling.
RPC Portal
Connect to Digital Energy's Solana RPC endpoint and manage your account from the dedicated portal. Keys support IP allowlisting and domain whitelisting — a leaked key doesn't work from anywhere you haven't approved.
Connect Solana applications through a dedicated RPC URL.
Manage your access and credentials in one place.
Keep track of your RPC activity from the portal.
POST https://rpc.digital-energy.io/?api-key=YOUR_API_KEY
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "getLatestBlockhash"
}
200 OKI'm Frank DePaola — founder and sole operator of Digital Energy, LLC. After 30 years building and running a dental practice in Hoboken, NJ, I transitioned to blockchain infrastructure full-time. I bring the same operational discipline to running a Solana validator that I brought to building a practice from zero patients to a thriving multi-provider office.
Digital Energy has been securing the Solana network since May 2023 — 602+ epochs of continuous operation. Operational redundancy through Singapore primary + Dallas hot-standby failover, both AMD EPYC with NVMe RAID storage. Validator keypairs secured via multi-signature authorization through Squads. The operational discipline of a regulated medical practice, applied to validator infrastructure.
Why I Built a Solana Validator After 30 Years of Dentistry
Read the Full Story
Native Staking
Delegate SOL directly to Digital Energy through your favorite Solana wallet.
Open Phantom, Solflare, or Squads
Search "Digital Energy"
Delegate any amount of SOL
COMMISSIONS
5% vote commission (changed from 0% on 3/30/2026 for operational sustainability) — below the ~7% industry median.
0% MEV commission.
Vote Account:
86Sw9R6ynPmXnHfwUWinXtq1QoF2KHesfQQyZG5r8sXo
86Sw9R6ynPmXnH...5r8sXo
Stake with Phantom
Stake with Solflare
Liquid Staking (digitalSOL)
Swap SOL for digitalSOL and earn staking rewards while keeping your SOL liquid.
Last Epoch`s APY:
6.96%
Instant stake and unstake via Sanctum
Use digitalSOL across Solana DeFi
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