The role of the CELO validator set has changed significantly since the CELO L2 hardfork. It is now mandatory for each elected validator operator to run RPC nodes in order to earn rewards. These RPC nodes are free and publicly available to the CELO community. However, access to these RPC nodes is not really straightforward in a reliable way for the end user. This new problem gave me the idea to create a CELO Community RPC Gateway to provide fast, reliable and unified access to CELO Community RPC nodes through one RPC URL and to utilize up to 110 elected Community RPC nodes. This first MVP runs on Cloudflare workers and is fully functional on Mainnet and Baklava testnet avaiable at https://celo-community.org.

As a next step, the project (https://github.com/atweb3-io/celo-community-rpc) will be moved to a shared community GitHub organization (https://github.com/celo-community), allowing for easier further development with multiple community contributors. The existing architecture will be re-evaluated and adapted to provide a more decentralized entry point and (geo-)loadbalanced routing.