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Chase Wright
Node Infrastructure at the Ethereum Foundation. I build, run, and break Ethereum nodes — and occasionally write about it.
Recent posts
All posts →Jun 15, 2026
How I Run My Ethereum Validators
A validator's only real job is to sign two kinds of message and never sign a contradictory one. Here's the generic shape of the stack I run to make that hard to screw up: a remote signer, a slashing-protection DB, four beacon nodes that have to agree, and a NUC tying it all together.
Jun 8, 2026
Running Your Own IPFS Gateway
Hello, IPFS said the site is pinned on my own Kubo gateway node. Here's how that node actually works — and the afternoon I spent learning that nginx can't proxy a streaming API, no matter what you put in the config.
Jun 4, 2026
Hello, IPFS
I killed my WordPress site and replaced it with a static site on IPFS, IPNS, and ENS. No servers, no database, no PHP. Here's how it works and what I learned.