Node types

Federation members

The Spiderchain is operated by 15 federation members - large exchanges, financial institutions, and Bitcoin-focused companies - geographically distributed all over the world. Botanix Labs only serves as one of the 15 federation members. With no single entity in control and a geographically diverse membership, there is no single point of failure.

The federation members are responsible for verifying pegins, verifying pegouts and following the PBFT consensus for block production. Block production is done via a round-robin system.

Non-federation members

Also non-federation members should be able to run a node. There are however a few differences between federation members and non-federation members:

1. Non-federation members do not have a BTC server

2. Non-federation members do not produce blocks

If you want to run your own non-federation node, please visit Run a node.