Luganodes X Exocore: Building the Future of Aggregated Security

Introduction

Luganodes is excited to announce its partnership with Exocore, a Layer 1 (L1) blockchain focused on aggregated security. This collaboration aims to strengthen decentralized infrastructure by leveraging Luganodes’ institutional-grade validator operations and Exocore’s innovative security architecture. Together, the teams are set to power the next generation of decentralized computing, ensuring security, scalability, and flexibility for blockchain applications across ecosystems.

What is Exocore?

Exocore is a next-generation L1 blockchain designed to provide aggregated economic and cryptographic security to decentralized systems. By unifying the economic security of multiple blockchain networks through restaking, Exocore scales decentralized compute services while maintaining a high level of security. The protocol normalizes liquidity across various blockchains, ensuring decentralized applications and off-chain systems benefit from a strong and secure foundation.

Exocore's architecture is built on a modular, Tendermint-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism, integrated with Zero-Knowledge (ZK) light-client bridging and a fully EVM-compatible execution environment. This allows Exocore to seamlessly connect with different blockchain environments, making it an omnichain solution that supports EVM, Rust, WASM, MOVE, and UTXO execution environments.

The Role of Aggregated Security

Exocore's aggregated security stack provides multiple layers of protection through restakers, who contribute economic security by restaking a variety of assets, including native tokens, liquid staking tokens (LSTs), liquidity provider (LP) tokens, and stablecoins. These assets remain self-custodied, ensuring full control and security for restakers while contributing to the overall network's safety.

At the core of Exocore’s system is the coordination layer, which orchestrates interactions between restakers, operators, and services. This layer executes core functions such as locking, unlocking, slashing, and rewarding participants. Operators, including validators, play a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the network by participating in governance and ensuring the secure operation of the infrastructure.

Why Exocore Matters

Exocore’s unique value lies in its ability to aggregate security across different blockchains and extend it to off-chain systems like bridges, oracles, rollups, and other decentralized services. This allows decentralized applications and services that previously had to bootstrap their own economic security to benefit from a shared, aggregated security pool. By doing so, Exocore acts as a coordination engine for decentralized compute, offering both scalability and security across multiple ecosystems.

With its modular and pluggable design, Exocore ensures that developers can seamlessly integrate decentralized compute services while maintaining robust security. The protocol’s permissionless and democratically governed nature guarantees that anyone can participate, fostering innovation and inclusivity.

Luganodes X Exocore: A Partnership for Security and Scalability

As a key partner, Luganodes will operate validators on the Exocore network, contributing to its security and stability. With extensive experience in running institutional-grade infrastructure, Luganodes will ensure that Exocore’s aggregated security model remains reliable and scalable as it grows. By joining Exocore’s network of operators, Luganodes reinforces its commitment to supporting cutting-edge technologies that prioritize decentralization, security, and scalability.

This partnership is particularly significant for the evolving decentralized compute landscape, where security is paramount. As more decentralized applications require off-chain services to interact with on-chain components, Luganodes and Exocore will play a critical role in ensuring that these interactions remain secure and efficient.

Conclusion

The partnership between Luganodes and Exocore is a major step forward in enhancing the security and scalability of decentralized applications and off-chain services. By combining Exocore’s innovative approach to aggregated security with Luganodes’ robust validator operations, we are creating a secure foundation for the future of decentralized computing. Together, we are building an ecosystem that is secure, flexible, and ready to scale across multiple blockchain networks, driving innovation and trust in the decentralized economy.

About Luganodes

Luganodes is a world-class, Swiss-operated, non-custodial blockchain infrastructure provider that has rapidly gained recognition in the industry for offering institutional-grade services. It was born out of the Lugano Plan B Program, an initiative driven by Tether and the City of Lugano. Luganodes maintains an exceptional 99.9% uptime with round-the-clock monitoring by SRE experts. With support for 45+ PoS networks, it ranks among the top validators on Polygon, Polkadot, Sui, and Tron. Luganodes prioritizes security and compliance, holding the distinction of being one of the first staking providers to adhere to all SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and ISO 27001 standards as well as offering Chainproof insurance to institutional clients.