# Notes for Validator Nodes

### Advantages from Orbit Bridge Validator Participation

\- Transmission of decentralized operation method in blockchain ecosystem

\- DAO formation experience for governance consensus for Web3.0 transition (differences from updates through centralized servers in Web2.0)

\- Gain experience in various mainnets through operation of validator nodes and accumulate know-how for node management

\- Understanding and sharing of technology in the blockchain industry that Ozys has researched and developed so far

### Ozys Validator Node Operation Features

\- Sharing the module connecting Web2.0 to Web3.0 and experiencing Orbit Bridge operation through module construction

\- Experience off-chain consensus among various cross-chain operations

\- Korean communication channel while most of the solutions communicate in English

\- Strategic combination between projects and Ozys DeFi products which enables entry into multi-chain 

### Costs for operating a validator node

\- Server(EC2) costs: minimum requirement is consist of two t3.medium that costs ($0.052000 \* 2) / hourly → approximately $80 a month

\- Monitoring system: checking node’s instance status through AWS cloudwatch, newrelic, datadog → about 10 to 30 minutes total a day

\- Human resources: dedicated manager needed for following up updates on governance, disk usage, logs, bug fixes, and so on