According to Wu, Ankr announced that its operations for Babylon are now fully operational and is the finality provider for the Babylon mainnet Phase 1 operation. Finality providers are critical to the protocol as they are responsible for voting in finality rounds on CometBFT and receiving voting delegations from BTC stakers. The launch of Babylon Mainnet Phase 1 marks a critical moment for Bitcoin scalability and PoS chain security.