Super validator

Super validators are the operators of the Global Synchronizer, Canton Network's shared public interoperability layer. Each super validator is an independent organization running the sequencing and mediation infrastructure that orders and delivers messages between participant nodes across the network. Collectively they keep the synchronizer live; no single member can run or alter it alone.

The role carries governance weight as well as operational duty. Super validators vote on the configuration of the Global Synchronizer and on the economic parameters of Canton Coin, working through the network's public improvement-proposal process. Admission to the group is itself governed, so the operator set grows by agreement rather than by permissionless entry.

Compensation comes from the token they administer: super validators earn the largest defined share of Canton Coin minting in exchange for infrastructure operation. Their rewards, like those of validators and featured applications, follow the schedule the network's tokenomics defines.

The design answers a specific institutional requirement: financial firms will not settle on rails owned by a competitor or a single vendor. Distributing operation across many super validators is what makes the shared layer neutral enough to use.