I am surprised by the extent to which the following operator identities, all running active Polkadot nodes, show such a significant intermixing of transactions between their accounts:
BESTVALIDATOR | ZURICH/p1
BUENO VALIDATORO/p1
BUENO VALIDATORO/p2
Chris-Staking
Chris-Staking/p1
Chris-Staking/p2
Encointer
POWERSTAKE POLKADOT/P1
STEAKCHEF/p1
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
It is also noteworthy that these operators chose to transfer 20 DOT to their sub-identities almost simultaneously on November 5, 2025, presumably for identity verification purposes:
Encointer transfer to sub-identities
BESTVALIDATOR | ZURICH transfer to sub-identities
BUENO VALIDATORO transfer to sub-identities
Chris-Staking transfer to sub-identities
The timing and coordination of these transactions further reinforce concerns about whether these identities are truly independent or instead managed in a coordinated manner.
This level of fund movement between supposedly independent operators raises legitimate questions around independence, transparency, and whether these identities are effectively controlled by the same entity.