Mercury: Towards the Integrated Endgame

The article claims that the 20 initial validators were selected based on the historical performance and service quality of all Cosmos Hub validators , but this is clearly not the case .

For example:

POSTHUMAN

03/06/2025 14:56:55 – Jailed (Slashed on consumer chain )

02/26/2025 20:21:33 – Jailed (Slashed on consumer chain )

12/14/2024 14:28:57 – Jailed (Slashed on consumer chain )

11/18/2024 23:24:22 – Jailed

06/24/2024 13:30:16 – Jailed

03/28/2024 23:21:48 – Jailed

03/13/2024 18:52:11 – Jailed

SG-1

11/07/2024 14:27:24 – Jailed

07/23/2024 18:00:13 – Jailed

04/25/2024 10:26:50 – Jailed

iqlusion

08,030,710 (2021-10-16) – Jailed

07,562,942 (2021-09-06) – Jailed

Allnodes

03/04/2021 04:01:09 – Jailed

Additionally, Hadron Labs is not even a Cosmos Hub validator .

It is very clear that several of these validators have been jailed multiple times , and some were even jailed for failing to properly operate consumer chains .

Thus, this list of 20 validators was obviously not selected based on performance . Since this involves the use of community pool funds , Neutron should conduct a fair selection process based on actual performance and service transparency .

Otherwise, this proposal should be rejected .