CratD2C Adds Ankr As Mainnet Validator Nodes to Boost Staking and Network Security

Ankr, a decentralized infrastructure platform that offers high-performance API and RPC services, announced a strategic collaboration with CratD2C, a proof-of-stake network that connects businesses and consumers through real-world applications. Based on this partnership, Ankr serves as a validator and stalking infrastructure provider to CratD2C, according to details disclosed today. Through the alliance, CratD2C aims to strengthen its network’s foundation for scalable, safe, and seamless growth across more than 12 Web3 ecosystems built on its chain.

Ankr is proud to announce it will serve as a validator and staking infrastructure provider for @CratD2C, reinforcing the network’s foundation for scalable, secure, and efficient growth across its 12+1 diverse ecosystem. CratD2C's ecosystem powers DeFi, e-Commerce, Real Estate,… pic.twitter.com/axVfHZBksb

— Ankr (@ankr) October 21, 2025

Streamlining CratD2C Operations

CratD2C is an innovative Layer-1 proof-of-stake (POS) blockchain network that links businesses directly with customers through cost-effective, transparent, and secure smart contracts. At its core is an infrastructure that powers over 12 decentralized ecosystems, including DeFi, real estate, e-commerce, staking, Tap-2-Mine mobile mining pool, luxury lifestyle booking, and SEAV (Self-Earning Asset Vault) – a DeFi protocol that allows people to access diverse crypto-backed lending and borrowing solutions, and many others, connecting businesses and consumers through real-world utilities.

The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 shifted global commerce towards online and exposed the ineffectiveness of traditional platforms – high costs, centralization, and lack of empowerment/inclusivity. With its launch in 2021, CratD2C envisioned resolving such obstacles and offering true ownership back to businesses, investors, people, and everyday users.

The above partnership enabled the addition of Ankr as a validator node support for CratD2C’s POS blockchain network, an integration that makes the setup and maintenance of staking nodes seamless for businesses (institutions) and individual investors. As a result, this integration allows CratD2C users to maximize staking yields and alleviate potential network-related risks through active engagement in the consensus

Staking on the CratD2C’s network enables people to lock a certain amount of CratD2C native tokens in the platform’s staking pools, enabling them to participate in the network’s security and hence earn yields. With Ankr’s addition as CratD2C validator nodes, institutions and investors can now run advanced validators and bolster network decentralization and security while maximizing profits on staked coins and yields through crypto delegation

Empowering the Web3 Ecosystem

The strategic collaboration between Ankr and CratD2C highlights the importance of strong and scalable infrastructure to support the growing Web3 ecosystem of services, platforms, and applications. With high costs, centralization, bottlenecks, and congestion associated with traditional centralized servers and data centres, decentralized technologies bring radical solutions that empower users in the larger Web3 ecosystem.

The above Web3 infrastructure platforms (Ankr and CratD2C) provide diverse Web3 tooling such as node deployment and staking as a service, empowering people to control their destiny and build confidence in the decentralized web