Crouton Digital: institutional blockchain infrastructure for Web3 ecosystems

[PRESS RELEASE – Riga, Latvia, December 26th, 2025]

The financing represents an important step in Crouton Digital’s transition from a validator-focused operator to a full-spectrum Web3 infrastructure provider serving protocols, funds and institutional participants across more than 45 blockchain ecosystems.

Engineering-First infrastructure built for reliability

As part of its growth strategy, Crouton Digital is expanding its product suite to include public and private RPC endpoints, archive nodes and Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions. These services are designed to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads needed by decentralized applications, governance systems, and protocol teams.

All infrastructure is monitored via internal:

• Dashboards
• Telemetry systems
• Performance tracking tools

All infrastructure is built on bare-metal deployments across multiple regions, enabling high availability, fault tolerance, and stable performance during network congestion, protocol upgrades, and peak usage periods.

Validator operations and early-stage network alignment

Crouton Digital operates a reliable validator and node infrastructure across more than 45 networks and actively participates in early and invited validator alignment programs for next-generation protocols, including:

• 0G
• Monad
• Starknet
• Dream Network
• Story protocol
• JOTA
• Walrus

Participation in these programs reflects strong operational credibility, technical maturity, and long-term alignment with the protocol foundations. Crouton Digital supports networks during critical phases such as incentivized testnets, mainnet launches, and governance activation, delivering consistent validator performance and stable network participation during periods of rapid growth.

RPC, NaaS and Institutional Staking Solutions

In addition to validation, Crouton Digital offers public and private RPC endpoints, archive nodes, and Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions built to support high request throughput and mission-critical workloads. These services support decentralized applications, governance systems, and internal tools for protocol teams and enterprises.

The company also offers institutional and private staking programs tailored for funds, custodians and treasury operators. Solutions include delegation infrastructure, white-label validator setups, and operational reporting designed to meet the expectations of institutional stakeholders.

Security, trust and proven track record

Security and operational reliability remain core pillars of Crouton Digital’s infrastructure strategy. The company operates hardened, bare-metal environments with strict access controls and a high-availability architecture designed to meet institutional operational standards.

Crouton Digital has a verified AAA Reliability and Security Rating (VSP) from Staking Rewards, reflecting consistent validator performance and long-term operational stability across multiple blockchain networks.

In line with its expansion into institutional infrastructure services, Crouton Digital has initiated the process of obtaining SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications. These efforts are intended to formalize internal security, compliance and governance frameworks in response to increasing demands from funds, custodians and business partners.

Strategic growth and roadmap

In 2025, Crouton Digital raised $1 million in strategic funding to support the expansion of its global infrastructure footprint, the rollout of RPC, node infrastructure and institutional staking services, and continued investments in internal tools.

Looking ahead, the company plans to scale validator operations across multiple regions, expand its Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) and staking offerings at the enterprise level, and further develop observability and automated reliability systems to support the next phase of institutional Web3 adoption.

Building the backbone of Web3

Crouton Digital’s mission is to make decentralized networks as reliable and accountable as traditional financial systems. By combining technical precision, operational discipline and long-term ecosystem alignment, the company continues to build infrastructure that protocols, funds and institutions can rely on with their capital, reputation and critical operations.

About Crouton Digital

Riga, Latvia 2025 — Crouton digitala provider of institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure, announced it has raised $1 million in strategic funding to accelerate infrastructure expansion and launch new RPC, node and institutional staking services. The company also confirmed the initiation of SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certification processes, strengthening its focus on security, compliance and reliability at the enterprise level.