Validators are node operators responsible for securing the network. They fulfill the following responsibilities:
Serves as the API gateway of the network: manages the full life cycle of data & intelligence requests to the Hemera Network
Validates network responses: validate the responses provided by indexer and inference nodes
Validates the availabilities of indexers and inference nodes: validators maintain a lookup table called the "Address-Name-Service" (ANS) for locating the accounts and indexers who hold the accounts data. As such, validators periodically check and verify the availability of the indexed data. See Figure below
