Well you're in for a treat
My third Solana validator client, pipe-thin, is stateless!
State and shreds are fetched on demand, no need for a massive local ledger or AccountDB
But you still control the validator: your keys, your vote account, voting, block production, execution, verification, and network propagation
Pipe is an additional fast path for state and data propagation alongside the decentralized public Internet not a replacement for it
The validator remains independently operated. Weโre separating consensus compute from state storage and giving Solana data a second path through the network
Apps should indeed run solana validators, and it will be easy to do so