KEEP CALM! By no means can a validator run away with your delegated funds.
By delegating to a validator, you are only delegating staking power, for which you are rewarded.
That said, there are risks and responsibilities being a delegator no matter which Validator you choose.
Please Do Your Own Research (DYOR), but from our personal experience:
- Delegators are encourgaed to take part in Governance votes
- If you do not vote, your vote will default to the Validator's vote
- Unbonding allows you to retrieve part or all of your stake
- Unbonding takes time during which you do not earn rewards
- Redelegation allows you to swap between Validators
- Validators can change their Commission rates (check their maximum)
- Self-delegation shows how much they have invested themselves
- Uptime is based on how many blocks are not signed by the Validator over a period of time
- There are risks of being slashed for Validator misbehaviour which is why we run our own
- Please consider delegating a few KUJI to smaller Validators to help them with costs