Delegated Guardian Set＃

For certain chains, the full set of 19 Guardian nodes is not required to each maintain full-node infrastructure. Instead, a delegated guardian set is configured — a configurable subset of Guardians designated to observe events on specific chains. The remaining Canonical Guardians rely on attested observations gossiped by Delegated Guardians to participate in VAA signing. See the Delegated Guardian Sets whitepaper for the full specification.

To see which guardian is a delegate for a chain, refer to the delegated guardians section of the Wormhole dashboard.

Alternatively, you may call the relevat function of the delegated guardian set smart contract on Ethereum to get the configuration yourself with tools like Foundry.

cast call 0x1462800febd49232798132e8c8b721aa86c4c209 "getConfig()((uint16,uint32,uint8,address[])[])"