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Latest Updates for Stakers

• A reminder, if you're not terminally online with crypto twitter, you can always check EthStaker's "incidents" page for tl;dr's and recommended actions in chain-wide staking issues

Take Action

• Insecure keystore files generated from the deposit tools

  • Fixed versions:

    • staking-deposit-cli: v2.8.0

    • ethstaker-deposit-cli: v0.6.0

    • Wagyu Key Gen: v1.11.1

Announcements & Product Updates

• StereumPlus: Take Full Control of Your Ethereum Node

• Community Staking Grants #2: CSM Tooling

• Erigon 3 + Caplin on Gnosis Chain - Possible to run the Erigon client with approximately 84 GB

  • First Erigon Caplin+Erigon3 block on Gnosis Chain

  • Validator Meetup with Erigon at Gnosis

• Gnosis Chain Pectra Upgrade Specifications

Mini Computers / Lower Specs Devices

• Staking on Power Efficient and Low Cost Hardware: From ARM64 to RISC-V Boards

• Running a 4-node cluster on $300 Rock 5B computers, all from home!

• Devops asked if we could make RISC-V Geth docker images - Péter Szilágyi

Discussions

• On Increasing the Block Gas Limit: Technical Considerations & Path Forward

• We retain "solo staker" as the definition of a node operator who validates without anything between them and the Beacon Chain contract

• Genesis validator is a huge PITA

• Slashing Party

Worth a Read

• @soispoke explains why even 6% solo stakers on the network can guarantee faster inclusion to soft-censored transactions if we use FOCIL

• Block Arrivals, Home Stakers & Bumping the blob count

• SOLO: Liquid Staking for Solo Validators

• It's NOT about slashing!" Institutional due diligence on Eth staking risks and their mitigations

• Bandwidth Availability in Ethereum: Regional Differences and Network Impacts

Worth a Watch - Devcon Special

• Solo staking in the dark forest: a survival guide

• Anti-Correlation Penalties

• Demystifying solo staking struggles

• Lighthouse: Introduction to Siren

• Decentralizing access to Ethereum utilizing Ethereum's Portal Networks

• Dare to be Solo Staking

Hiring

• Beaconcha.in is hiring a Senior UI/UX Designer

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Obol’s November 2024 Update

  • Obol Contributions rewards = points + retroactive funding

  • Gnosis Chain DV Cluster Test v2

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.10.3

  • Prysm v5.1.3-rc.0

  • Lodestar v1.23.1

  • Nimbus v24.11.0

  • Lighthouse v6.0.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.12

  • Nethermind v1.30.0

  • Erigon v3.0.0-alpha6

  • Besu 24.8.0

  • Reth v1.1.4

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Heya home operatooooors!

Devcon is just around the corner and there are quite useful events, talks, and panels for home operators. I’ll try to attend all of them and share my observations here.

I made some changes to the newsletter format and will give more space to content that directly related home operators. This way, we can move forward without losing our focus.

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Devcon7 Home Operator Community Hub - Presented by EthStaker, Ethereum on ARM, and Dappnode

Take Action

• Validators of the Ethereum community, can you please upgrade your CL (prysm / lighthouse / teku / nimbus / Lodestar) clients to the latest version to help us observe the network bandwidth changes with the latest p2p improvements?

• If you're running a beacon node this is your opportunity to help accelerate Ethereum development by participating Xatu

Announcements & Product Updates

• Eth Docker 2.12.3.0 to support Docker 27.3.0

  • with 2.12.0.0 Eth Docker will sync a Reth full node with the RocketPool, SSV and StakeWise contracts included

• Announcing Ephemery incentives program and Ephemery Testnet

  • EthStaker Ephemery Testnet Call

• Snap-synced a Nethermind node in 22 minutes

• Lido’s Community Staking Module (CSM) is live on mainnet.

  • Practical guideline from StakeSaurus

  • Lido CSM Release Party

  • Details about Lido’s Staking Router

• Rocket Pool Saturn Zero upgrade

  • ETH-only minipools are live

• On solo staking, local block building and blobs

• Stereum Ethereum Node Setup & Manager 2.2.3

• Aztec- Applications for the Sequencer & Prover Testnet are now open.

• Devcon schedule is live

• Bunch of product improvements from Beaconcha.in

• Gnosis Chain Staking User Experience Survey 2024 Results

• Geth on Gnosis Chain is just around the corner

• The Gnosis Chain Node Operator Ecosystem

• What is the impact of EIP-4444 on the Gnosis Chain?

Mini Computers / Lower Specs Devices

• RISC-V: Best Chips Flavor

• Staking on Power Efficient and Low Cost Hardware: From ARM64 to RISC-V Boards

  • Very geeky hardware topic about RISC-V boards

• Why NUC?

• Geth node running on the Banana Pi BPI-F3 #RISCV board

Discussions

• Lido CSM vs Rocket Pool 8 eth no RPL

• CSM Validators or Vanilla Solo Staking

• how much longer until upgrading to 4tb?

Worth a Read

• Next Ethereum upgrade: How Pectra will enhance the staking experience

• Practical endgame on issuance policy

Tools that you should check it

• Validator Penalty Simulator

• GotEth from Migalabs

  • Ethereum metrics indexer (CL and EL): duties, rewards, balances, and many more

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Obol Collective’s new dashboard

    • Charon v1.1.1 has been released

      • This is the first version of Charon ready for Gnosis Chain Mainnet!

  • SSV’s new dashboard - Monitor SSV

  • CPU Load Before vs. After Alan Fork on a Rock5b (8 Cores)

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.10.3

  • Prysm v5.1.2

  • Lodestar v1.23.0-rc.1

  • Nimbus v24.10.0

  • Lighthouse v5.3.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.11

  • Nethermind v1.29.1

  • Erigon v3.0.0-alpha5

  • Besu 24.8.0

  • Reth v1.1.1

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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What Happened at the Ethereum Argentina Staking Day?

Rhino Review was among the supporters of the Privacy Reunion & Staking Day organized by Ethereum Argentina, and I am delighted to present this summary to you!

The event took place on August 1st and hosted many participants and speakers. The increase in the number of stakers and node operators in Argentina, particularly in Latin America, is of great importance for Ethereum. With the increase in geographical diversity, Ethereum becomes a more robust and resilient network, securing all its actors, projects and people.

Presentations were made with this goal in mind at this visionary and humble event. Being a validator certainly has financial and technical challenges, but contributing to Ethereum as a node operator is a much cheaper and more accessible way. Anyone can set up a node with a cheap mini-computer like Skylar did and join the network.

The event began with a presentation by Skylar from the EF titled “Why is staking important for Ethereum.” He conveyed the mission of Ethereum as a next-generation community computer and gave important messages about why staking is super important.

Then, in the presentation by Nacho from SenseiNode, which operates in the LATAM region, the details and technical requirements of being a node operator were discussed. It was very nice to share experiences with the participants in the tips and recommendations in this section. The day continued with a presentation by Enti, one of the contributors from Lido. Enti provided details about Lido’s new project, CSM, and talked about how to participate and how CSM contributes to Ethereum’s decentralization.

Carlos talked about the geographical distribution of nodes in Latam and showed how ETH Kipu contribute to the descentralization in the region through the first educational program in Spanish about staking “Gardeners of Infinity”.

The final presentation of the day were by Nixo from EthStaker and Nicky from SenseiNode. Nixo’s detailed presentation covered the current issues in the Ethereum staking ecosystem and Nicky was covered the potential impacts of ongoing technical developments like DVT.

You can watch the all presentations here!

Latest Updates for Stakers

• Introducing the ethstaker-deposit-cli

• Beaconcha.in V2 beta is live on Holesky

  • Real-time monitoring of up to 100,000 validators

  • Create custom validator groups

  • New metric: Validator Efficiency

• EthPillar v1.7.5 released

• Stakers Union: Open for Applications

  • EFDevcon for providing Stakers Union members with free and discounted tickets to Devcon 7

• Staking on Ethereum - an intro (2024 edition)

• The 2024 Staking Survey report is published

• Stereum 2.2.0 - Heartcore

• The DVT Home Staking Curriculum - StakeSaurus

• ROP-8: Geographical distribution of Ethereum validators

  • Estimating Ethereum's Validators Decentralization leveraging p2p data

    • Dune Dashboard

• Introducing: Dappnode Home x Lido

• Lido CSM is live on Holesky testnet

  • Testnet Entry

  • CSM Intro

  • Technical Setup Guide

  • Who is eligible for Early Adoption

• Lido Community Staking Module (CSM) on testnet - July Updates

• Stakewise V3 is live on Gnosis Chain

• Shutterized Gnosis Chain is live

  • Participate as a validator

• HOPR Node Operators Call featuring Dappnode, Obol Collective, Shutter Network and Nethermind

• Erigon 3, the first all-in-one EVM-node on the efficient software frontier, is live.

• Maximum Viable Security: A New Framing for Ethereum Issuance

• Deep Diving Attestations - A quantitative analysis

• Supplementing Censorship Resistance Today

• Execution layer cross-validation

• Why I am against EOF in Pectra

• Nethermind Sedge v1.4.0 ready to download

• Diseconomies of Scale: Anti-Correlation Penalties (EIP-7716)

• Blobs, Reorgs, and the Role of MEV-Boost

• Orbit SSF: solo-staking-friendly validator set management for SSF

• Exploring Correlation Patterns in the Ethereum Validator Network

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Releasing Charon 1.0

  • Distributed validators on Gnosis Chain

• SSV now has over 800,000 ETH Staked

EthStaker Corner

• How often do you cash out staking rewards?

• Staking rewards to a different wallet

• Staking Stats @ 6 months

• Staking options

• Worth upgrading 2tb to 4tb now with some of the prime deals, or wait it out for prices to come down in the coming years?

• ETH staking advice for a total beginner

• What is the average daily reward supposed to be?

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.6.1

  • Prysm v5.0.4

  • Lodestar v1.21.0-rc-1

  • Nimbus v24.7.0

  • Lighthouse v5.2.1

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.7

  • Nethermind v1.28.0-rc

  • Erigon v3.0.0-alpha1

  • Besu 24.7.0

  • Reth v1.0.3

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

Video & Podcast

• Staking & Consensus by EthStaker videos

  • Don't let your friends do MEV

  • Tales from Interop

  • Justin Drake

  • What's the issue with issuance?

  • Ethereum Staking Kahoot Quiz

• Client monogamy by James Prestwich

• Increase solo staking execution rewards by 120%

• Advancing base layer neutrality: The Launch of Shutter's Encrypted Mempool on Gnosis Chain

• Set up your own Ethereum Node with Stereum

• MEV in 2025

• Exploring Ethereum’s Colleration Risk

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Gnosis Chain x Dappnode Home Campaign has started. Limited Edition Dappnode Home comes with 3 GNO.

• Solo Stakers aren't going away - Long Story Short

• Home staking ethereum is really no fun

• Anti correlation penalties from Lion

• Ethpillar v1.6.0 released

• Nethermind v.1.27 client is x3.7 times faster on your existing hardware

• Reth Node Archival Guide

• Exploring Correlation Patterns in the Ethereum Validator Network by MigaLabs

• The Staking Mastery Program from Obol

• What’s the lowest storage we can expect from a non-archive full node today?

• Run on a $200 ARM64 board using ~10w:

• Is it worth using MEV-Boost?

• Blobs, Reorgs, and the Role of MEV-Boost

• Lighthouse Attestation Simulator

• Graffiti Watermarks

• Allowing validators to share client information privately

• Securing the Ethereum Protocol Using OVHcloud

• 1% For Decentralisation: A Funding Model For Ethereum

• beaconcha.in announced beaconcha.in V2 Beta

• Rocket Pool Houston upgrades now live

• Missed Attestations - A technical guide to understanding and fine-tuning Lighthouse

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Lido Validator & Node Operator Metrics: Q1 2024

    • Watch Node Operator Community Call

  • Validator private key compromise is one of the biggest risks in staking today.

  • Gnosis has started to testing Obol Network’s DV Cluster on the Gnosis Chain mainnet.

    • Join Gnosis Validator Meetup #17 with Obol Network

  • Updated Diva Staking website

EthStaker Corner

• understanding eth staking

• 450 days of attestations. No blocks proposed.

• Can I stake with Rocketpool without being exposed to rETH price risk?

• 32 or 64 GB in validator node?

• I got 50 eth, is staking an option yet?

Job Listing

• Nethermind

• Obol Network

• Erigon

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.4.0

  • Prysm v5.0.3

  • Lodestar v1.19.0

  • Nimbus v24.5.1

  • Lighthouse v5.2.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.5

  • Nethermind v1.27.0-rc

  • Erigon v2.60.1

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.2.0-beta.9

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Rhino Review x DappCon Berlin

Dappcon Berlin will take place between 21-23 May and Rhino Review readers can get 20% discount tickets by using the code Rhino20! There will be staking/validator themed talks and workshops at the event. Dappcon will host talks and presentations on 3 main topics. Open internet, Open infrastructure and Financial Applications. See you there!

Join Ethereum Staking Survey 2024

This survey aims to create a picture of the staking landscape, with an emphasis on the quality of life of solo stakers. Survey created with FOSS

Any questions about this survey can be directed to team@ethstaker.cc or be asked on the EthStaker subreddit

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• A limited edition Dappnode Home for Gnosis Chain is coming very soon with exclusive branding and incentives.

• Solo staker got a 188 ETH block last week.

• Am I a solo staker?

  • 'They're a last line of defense against corruption, collusion, and censorship on Ethereum. They're disorganized, erratically engaged, difficult to identify, and nearly impossible to sway in any sort of private interaction.’’

• How large is an Ethereum Archive node in May 2024?

• Approximately 73.24% of the world's ETH is unstaked. So where's the rest?

• Analysis on ”Correlated Attestation Penalties”

• Slashing Proofoor - On-chain slashed validator proofs

• EIP-7251 for Staking Pool Operators

• On issuance reduction and anti-correlation incentives

• Lido Validator Set Updates: April

• Reth AlphaNet

• ePBS specification notes

• Heroglyphs - Unclassified whitepaper is out.

• Graffiti Watermarks

• Gnosis Chain Validator Recap April ‘24

  • Geth is integrating to Gnosis Chain

  • EIP-7251 on Gnosis Chain

  • StakeWise V3 will be coming to the Gnosis Chain early June

• Tracoor: Ethereum beacon data and execution trace explorer

• Stereum Ethereum Node Setup & Manager 2.1.3

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Simple DVT: A New Phase For Lido on Ethereum

  • The first batch of Simple DVT validators on Lido are now active

  • Obol Network DVT cluster on the Gnosis Chain

EthStaker Corner

• Is anyone worried about losing all of their eth due to inactivity leak from power grid disruption via EMP / terrorist attack / natural disaster?

• The future of Eth staking

• Stakers Union: a collective of home-stakers

• Has anyone else had their proposal luck plummet since the dencun upgrade?

• 2048 ETH maximum in next upgrade?

• Am I the only one not restaking?

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.4.0

  • Prysm v5.0.3

  • Lodestar v1.18.0

  • Nimbus v24.4.0

  • Lighthouse v5.1.3

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.0

  • Nethermind v1.26.0

  • Erigon v2.59.3

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.2.0-beta.6

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Dencun upgrade has successfully activated on Ethereum & Gnosis Chain.

  • Ethereum

  • Gnosis Chain

• Dencun Fork Analysis from EthPandaOps

• 1M validators securing Ethereum

• Reth now in beta

• Besu 24.3.0 has some big improvements to the database to reduce disk footprint

• In the next Prysm release have some big improvements coming

• The post-mortem on the Nethermind client's January issue is available

• Grandline is open source now

• In 1 year the amount of nodes in LATAM has almost doubled.

• EIPs For Nerds #4: EIP-6110 (Supply Validator Deposits On-Chain)

• Initial Analysis of Stake Distribution

• Pump the gas - 40M is the new 30M

• Post mortem - missed slot incident on 27/3

• RIG Update #5 — Huddle and ship

• MaxEB is going to Electra.

• Issuance Issues — Initial Issue

• Roughly 50% of Coinbase validators are now running on Nethermind

• Addressing systemic risks — discouragement attacks against centralized validator sets

• Recipes for a stateless Ethereum - Guillaume Ballet

• Supporting decentralized staking through more anti-correlation incentives

• Is There Too Much ETH Staked? Devs Weigh Reduction In Staking Rewards

• Stereum 2.1.1 released. They added Lido and Obol exit service.

DVT Updates

• DVT

  • Obol Network - The Distributed Validator Protocol Roadmap

  • Lido Community Staking Update

  • Lido Community Staking Module Architecture

  • Diva’s Audit Reports

EthStaker Corner

• Vulnerability in xz library that compromises ssh

• If you are a solo staker with multiple validators, you are likely missing out on thousands of dollars.

• How are people mitigating the tax consequences of a potential eth price drawdown?

• Solo Staking - Dappnode Smooth and/or MEV Boost?

• Solo Staking Ethereum Upon Death

• CMV: MaxEB Destroys Tax Reporting

• Dencun killed my validator

• Stolen home staking validator

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Consensys Staking - Staff Software Engineer

• Consensys Staking - Software Engineer

• Consensys Staking - Senior Protocol Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.3.1

  • Prysm v5.0.2

  • Lodestar v1.17.0

  • Nimbus v24.3.0

  • Lighthouse v5.1.3

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.14

  • Nethermind v1.26.0-exp.3

  • Erigon v2.59.3

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.2.0-beta.4

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Dencun Launch Preparations - All client teams have released final software versions for the Dencun upgrade.

• Proposed changes to staking issuance and how it affects solo stakers

• Guide on How to Migrate to a Larger Disk for an Ethereum Validator

• Starknet airdrop is allocating ~20% to ETH stakers

• Rainbow Staking

• State of Light Clients

• Light client roadmap for Electra

• Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum

• ePBS design constraints

• Endgame Staking Economics: A Case for Targeting

• Electra: Issuance Curve Adjustment Proposal

• Why You Should Care About ePBS? Proposer 🤝 Builder

• Bloxroute was relaying invalid rsync blocks in optimistic mode & bloxroute's post-submission verification was failing.

• The Supermajority Risk of Ethereum Explained

• VaNOM: Lido on Ethereum Validator & Node metrics

• Gnosis Chain Cancun-Deneb (Dencun) Hard Fork Announcement

• Client Updates for Gnosis Chain Dencun Hardfork

• Gnosis Beacon Chain Validator Monitor Bot by BootNode team

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Simple DVT release

  • The Lido Finance Simple DVT module has been deployed, and in the coming weeks clusters including over 100 community stakers (solos and small groups) will deploy Distributed Validators on mainnet, powered by Obol Network and SSV Network.

  • Client diversity & DVT - Obol Network, AllNodes, Chainnodes, Cosmostation

  • Team Staking with DappNode , Stake Diva, & Obol Network

  • Ethereum Mexico team starts DVT operation on Holesky

• LST - LRT

  • Proposed changes to staking issuance and how it affects solo stakers

  • Restaking, Staking, Yields and Leverage

  • Diva Staking’s DAO Approves Based ETH (bsdETH) Initiative on Reserve Protocol

  • EigenLayer Restaking Reloaded

EthStaker Corner

• UPS recommendations

• Anyone notice attestation rewards dropping pretty quickly? Like 5% in a month?

• Why we should not trust rated.networks Solo Staker list

• If you're going to ETHDenver - there'll be a validator & node operators event hosted by bloXroute and supported by EthStaker

• Number of Validators to be advantageous vs smoothing

• Is unstaking taxable?

• Borrowing stables and ETH against solo validators

• Time to Upgrade NVMe. Suggestions?

• ethstaker.tax update - Rocket Pool

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Consensys Staking - Staff Software Engineer

• Consensys Staking - Software Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.2.0

  • Prysm v5.0.0

  • Lodestar v1.16.0

  • Nimbus v24.2.1

  • Lighthouse v5.0.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.14

  • Nethermind v1.25.4

  • Erigon v2.58.1

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.19

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Events - ETHDenver

• Feb 28, 1:25 pm, The 'State of Staking' Panel: Decentralization, Security, and UX

• Feb 29, 12:55 pm, Squad Staking in 2024: Opportunities for Solo Stakers With DVT, Location: Trident Stage

• Feb 29, 1:00 pm, How Worried Should We Be About Ethereum Client Diversity?

• Feb 29, 1:35 pm, Decentralize Staking for the Future of Ethereum, the Power of DVT

• Mar 1, 12:30 pm, MEV Smoothing Pools: A No Brainer for the Solo Staker and Small LSDs

For more information check out official ETHDenver schedule page

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Sepolia has been succesfully upgraded to Deneb

• The Dencun upgrade is live on Chiado

• Nethermind stopped being able to process blocks

• You really can lose all your ETH if you stake with Geth

• Staking with geth carries SIGNIFICANTLY higher risks than running any other execution client

• Penalties Capping: How to not lose all our ETH to a consensus-impacting bug in a supermajority client.

• Why even have a concept of "invalid blocks" from a consensus layer standpoint?

• p2p.org client update: ‘‘we have successfully transitioned from GETH to BESU.’’

• Allnodes has fully transitioned to Besu

• @Sonic1337 has been simulating some worst-case scenarios for potential Geth chain splits

• Prysm: Electra Upgrade

• Lodestar Proposals for next Electra/Prague Fork

• Validator consolidation in EIP-7251

• Sigp Lighthouse team: Pectra views

• Validator Staking on MetaMask Portfolio

• Should we increase Ethereum's block gas limit?

• Smoothly Protocol Goes Live

• Coincashew: New guides for Switching Execution Clients Available

• List of solo stakers by Rated

• Since Q4 2022 (post-Merge), Geth usage across Lido protocol validators has gone from 93% to 67%

• Properties of issuance level: consensus incentives and variability across potential reward curves

• Solo staking, the backbone of the Ethereum network - Nimbus Twitter Spaces

• Testing path for a gas limit increase

• How to set up an off-the-grid Ethereum node running in rural Kenya, supporting the local community? A step-by-step guide

• Stereum Ethereum Node Setup & Manager 2.0.3

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • DVT Research and Standardization effort from the Nimbus team

  • Obol Network Charon v0.19.0 Update

  • Ethereum Node Operator EL Diversity Improvement Commitments

  • SimpleDVT & Solo Staking - Lido & SSV DAO Twitter Spaces

  • Nethermind Security completed an audit of ClayStack, a modular DVT-based liquid staking platform.

  • Over 100,000 ETH is now staked with SSV

• LST

  • Swell introduced rswETH

  • EtherFi deVamp Campaign

  • Ether.fi is committing to allocating 1% of the upcoming TGE token supply the ProtocolGuild in order to support the continued development of Ethereum

  • Launching the Turbo divETH Vault by Diva Staking

  • Diva DAO Community Call #5 with EthStaker + Stakesaurus - DVT Home Staker

  • The Liquid Staking Landscape

EthStaker Corner

• Do you run Rocket Pool minipools? Or are you interested in learning how to do so? We're building Rocket School, a video course about Rocket Pool, and we need your help!

• Let’s have a block luck pity party - bring your tales of woe

• Staking withuot typing my passphrase in the browser

• Running minority clients will not insulate you from major penalties when there's a super-majority present on the network

• Solo staker earning less than LSD?

• Hot take: the recent Nethermind bug is the best thing that's happened since the merge to promote client diversity.

• Decreasing the penalty in case of a supermajority bug

• What’s keeping you on Geth?

• Exit until geth isnt the supermajority anymore?

• Nethermind is DOWN - do not upgrade version

• Solo staking expectations with 32 ETH

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Consensys Staking - Staff Software Engineer

• Consensys Staking - Software Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.1.1

  • Prysm v4.2.1

  • Lodestar v1.15.1-rc.0

  • Nimbus v24.1.2

  • Lighthouse v4.6.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.11

  • Nethermind v1.25.3

  • Erigon v2.57.2

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.16

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• The application for the DVT Home Staker Program closes next Friday, 19 Jan

• Gas Limit Discussions

  • Why increasing the gas limit is difficult?

  • What problem does increasing the gas limit solve?

  • I am for increasing the gas limit, but we need to be more careful.

  • Modest increase is reasonable

  • It is absolutely a tradeoff

  • I am for a 50% block gas limit increase!

• Properties of issuance level (part 1)

• Kipu Stakers about to give birth to a DVT cluster with EthKipu, nodes in Argentina, Costa Rica, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic using DAppNode and ObolNetwork.

• Heuristics for Detecting Censorship

• DVStakers spent time in a small village in Kenya near Kilimanjaro setting up Ethereum full nodes, validators, and DVT validators.

• On January 6th, many Besu Mainnet nodes experienced a halt. Postmortem here

• Big upgrade for http://ethernets.io with a new database, and much better system for identifying live nodes.

• [AMA] We are EF Research (Pt. 11: 10 January, 2024) and the top five topics covered

• Analyzing Missed Slot Through The Lens of Relays – A potential path for relay incentivization

• Ethereum Timing Dashboard

• Quantifying the damage a supermajority client can cause

• Gnosis Chain Validator Year in Review

• Validator Timing Game Post EIP4844

• Optimizing Ethereum consensus and execution layer client interactions

• A list of Eigenlayer risks

• State & History growth dashboard in public Reth Grafana

• The New Year Smooth Raffle is now extended until January 19, 2024

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • RFP: Community Staking & Simple DVT Module Integrations

  • Proposal: Using DV clusters for encrypted transaction mempools

  • Charon v0.19.0 has been released to support the upcoming Dencun Hardfork

  • Restaked Obol Distributed Validator Clusters on Ethereum Mainnet are Live

  • How to Run a Validator on SSV.Network

• LST

  • StakeWise’s the January edition of the New Epoch newsletter is out.

  • EtherFi 2023 Recap

  • Swell has surpassed $350M TVL

EthStaker Corner

• Ethereum Client Switcher (switch from Geth in <30 seconds)

• Running 2 validators on one machine with Dappnode

• What would be the ETH price that will make you exit your validator(s)?

• Safest way to solo stake for non technical person

• Is there a way to tell if my MEV setup is working?

• Multiple reports of Besu clients going offline at block 18,947,893

• Now is a good time to check on your staking node disk usage

• Is there a site that compares the yields of all ETH staking options?

• PSA: If your withdrawal address is a Ledger and you don't have its seed phrase, you need to take action ASAP

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Stakewise - Marketing Manager

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.1.0

  • Prysm v4.2.0

  • Lodestar v1.14.0-rc.2

  • Nimbus v24.1.1

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.10

  • Nethermind v1.25.0

  • Erigon v2.56.2

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.14

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Greetings everyone!

On the last day of the year, we’ve prepared a brief summary of this year’s developments in the Ethereum staking ecosystem for you! If you missed the developments in staking and want to catch up, this recap is for you!

In this content, you can see what 2023 has shown us, what we have learned, and what awaits us.

Many thanks to Nixo for contribution in creating this content. 🫡

Diversify Everything

The best word to summarize the staking ecosystem in 2023 would be diversity. The idea of staking, which was laid on quite primitive technological tools and purposes in the past years, saw its limits tested, its design reviewed, and significant technological steps taken this year. Diversity is an existential concept, especially for Ethereum. Diversity increases the network’s resilience, reduces its fragility, and enhances its flexibility. However, I think the most important point is that if we approach diversity in an existential way, Ethereum must be diverse. The foundation of social consensus lies in this concept. I believe the word of the year should be diversity.

What did we learn?

• Diversity is essential. Client diversity alone is not enough; we also need Validator diversity, Builders diversity, Node diversity, diversity in serving data to other peers, LST diversity. In short, we need to diversify everything.

• As Nixo said, solo stakers continue to be the network’s insurance. Of course, not everything is perfect. In latest article, Vitalik addresses the limitations of solo staking while aiming to maintain its benefits and make the system more accessible. Also, take a look at EIP 7251 explainer.

• If we talk a little bit about numbers, the number of validators has increased by more than +400K, which means an increase of almost 95%. The increase after Shapella is really incredible. Of course, this increase also brings problems. And solutions.

• MEV continues to be a disruptive element in the staking ecosystem. We’ll see if MEV Burn could be a solution. Check out Toni Wahrstätter’s presentation about MEV Burn.

• LSTs diversified and protocols continue to grow step by step. StakeWise, Ether.fi, SSV, Rocket Pool, Swell, Stader are on mainnet while Diva is getting ready for mainnet. The controversy over Lido, the largest LST protocol, almost reaching its 33% limit is significant. It seems the concept of diversity is showing itself here again. We will together see the consequences of choosing to optimize performance over the resistance diversity could create.

• With Obol moving to mainnet, DVT especially started to be used among solo stakers. We are confident that it will provide great benefits in terms of both security and revenue. Check out Oisin Kyne’s presentation at Staking Gathering.

What awaits us?

• While it has its own limitations, DVT will soon fully enter our lives and even though its limits are not fully explored yet, it could provide significant security benefits.

• After Shapella, there was a significant jump in the number of validators, and we will follow discussions on how to solve problems like the extra burden this situation may bring to the network.

• Restaking and Eigenlayer continue to grow rapidly. While developing with LSTs, it’s still early to see their impact on the network.

• The relationship between MEV and Stakers is getting weirder every day. Are they losing their allure or becoming more integral in our lives? We will see together.

• Institutions are coming and in a bigger way than ever before.

• Node operators can support protocols by establishing cooperative-like structures, while individually getting safer and more meaningful gains. We have started to see examples of this. The features of Stakewise and Obol that support this approach are quite remarkable.

• It is also likely to turn to solutions where stakers will continue their operations with the same beacon chain configuration. Gnosis Chain proposes exactly this. Its 1:1 similarity with Ethereum allows DVT protocols to be easily implemented on the network.

Please share your own learnings and predictions below this post!

Ethereum is alive and well. Do your part to keep it that way.

Happy new year everyone!

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Ethernow.xyz - Real time observability for Ethereum

• The Rescue Node is now available to Solo Stakers

• Reth Crawler

• Smooth: a Smoothing Pool for Solo Stakers

• eth-light.xyz - A light-client implementation

• Since October, there has been an increase in validators exiting the Ethereum staking pool.

• Semantics of Staking 1: Liquefaction

• Lighthouse User Experience Survey

• Validator node visualization tool installation guide by Coincashew

• EthStaker Knowledge Base: Security at scale by Eridian

• Erigon 2024 roadmap

• Erigon is fully integrated as an Execution Layer Client, and Nimbus has been added as a Consensus Layer Client on the Gnosis Chain.

• Gnosis Beacon Chain anniversary

• Run a Node Grants Round Grantee Announcement

• Swarm <> Dappnode AMA

• Lodestar block production issue

• http://ethernets.io, an Ethereum network crawler

• Stereum Ethereum Node Setup & Manager 2.0.2

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • The Obol Mainnet Open Beta is now officially live.

  • Proposal: Key Refresh Scheme for DV operators

  • Chain Reactions | Staking Synergy: Vanguard

  • DVT Landscape in Ethereum staking

  • Stake Together is live on Mainnet

  • DVT Home Staker Program - In collaboration with Stakesaurus & Diva Staking

  • SSV launches permissionless mainnet. Join SSV Mainnet Call

• LST

  • StakeWise V3 is now live on mainnet

  • EigenLayer is adding 6 new LSTs and increasing restaking caps

  • Lido Community Staking - What is CSM?

  • Swell Network Weekly Recap

  • Octant announces a collaboration with Diva Staking, committing up to 100k ETH to Decentralized Staking for Public Goods Funding

  • yETH - Diversified Liquid Staking Yield

EthStaker Corner

• Targeting the Heavy Hitters for Ethereum Client Diversity

• Recovering Eth2 from beaconchain w/o mnemonic

• EthDocker: ELI5 how do I not get slashed?

• StakeWise V3 Vaults that helps Ethereum network health

• What's the downside of allnodes for staking?

• 2TB M.2 drive is full - is there any easy path to upgrade?

• Why do I run a full node?

• Best Staking as a Service solution for Ethereum?

• Inspired by Eth Docker, I'm publishing Eth Server to help setting up and maintaining your ubuntu server

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Gnosis is looking for DevRels

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.12.0

  • Prysm v4.1.1

  • Lodestar v1.12.0

  • Nimbus v23.11.0

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.5

  • Nethermind v1.23.0

  • Erigon v2.55.1

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.13

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is vital for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Awesome Gnosis Chain Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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What Happened at the EthStaker’s Staking Gathering?

We've just wrapped up a fantastic and intense Devconnect week, and we're now gradually getting back on track. I aim to share a brief overview of the events and standout presentations from the EthStaker Gathering. Let's dive in!

Note: The insights here are based on the presentations I managed to catch and found intriguing. For other excellent presentations that I missed, you can check out the EthStaker YouTube channel.

Day 1: The first day kicked off with the team all set and attendees beginning to arrive. Familiar faces, registered participants, and hundreds of stakers, researchers, developers, and enthusiasts gathered. The EthStaker Gathering's unifying atmosphere enabled people to benefit from each other’s ideas and projects.

One of the notable presentations of the first day was by the ETHKipu and KipuStakers team, who shared their work in LATAM. The team, which prepared the Spanish version of Rhino Review, discussed their activities in Latin America here.

👉Watch here👈

Then, we listened to the LST market dynamics from a user research perspective in James Smith’s presentation 'Stop trying to be too funky with your LSTs and focus on the basics'.

👉Watch here:👈

Another attention-grabbing presentation of the day was Marek from the Nethermind team’s 'Client Diversity - A Nethermind Core Dev Perspective'. Marek presented his arguments on the prons and cons of client diversity.

👉Watch here:👈

Day 2: On the second day, we had the chance to listen to great sessions back-to-back. Paritosh's presentation 'What?... Merge testing is evolving (Insert pokemon evolving logo here)' was quite interesting in what it brought for home stakers according to Dencun.

👉Watch here:👈

Then Danny Ryan took the stage and conveyed the importance of diversity with incredibly good analogies.

👉Watch here: 👈

Justin Drake talked about the design challenges encountered and the solutions developed in his presentation 'Beacon chain design mistakes'

👉Watch here: 👈

Alex Stokes in the 'State of our union' presentation tackled Ethereum with its good and concerning aspects. Frankly, I believe this presentation, which had quite objective comments, should be examined more carefully, and we need to rethink how we position all our efforts on a larger scale.

👉Watch here:👈

Short takeaways covering two days:

• The content and presentations were strong. I had listened to similar presentations by the speakers at other events, but I saw that they were modified for more detailed and some new additions were made when coming here.

• DVT is currently a hot topic. It has transitioned from being a niche subject last year to one of the main items on the agenda now.

• I attended several talks on diversity, which I believe should be more emphasized. It's important to consider diversity not only in clients but also in protocol, validators, builders, nodes, and in serving data to peers diversity.

• The organization was flawless. Despite being held in a hotel, it didn't feel like a hotel at all.

  
  Thank you very much for reading my observations of this event!

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Ulisse Ethereum network topology explorer

• 5 ETH reward to solo staker!

• Builderelays: Builder-Relay Vertical Integration

• Almost 100 validators got slashed on November 14 2023. The latest slashed validators were just activated & slashed immediately.

• The Stereum 2.0.0 Full Release

• NounsDAO sent rewards to home stakers who included the glasses in their graffiti.

• Staking is not risk free

• How to mitigate liquid staking derivatives threatening Ethereum's decentralization

• The black Friday started at DAppNode with up to 400€ off on stake from home hardware. If you use "Aavechan_BlackFriday" code, you will get an additional 100€ off. No more excuses to not participate in decentralization.

• Are solo stakers valuable for censorship resistance?

• Prada from Diva Staking emphasizes the importance of self limitation to avoid becoming a centralized layer on top of Ethereum

• The Great Staking Debate: Lido Dominance and Ethereum

• The new meta for solo stakers = Your own mini staking pool.

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Obol Mainnet Open Beta will be officially live on December 1 2023.

  • Obol: The LidoFinance Simple DVT Module Proposal has officially passed.

  • Proposal: Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing-based Distributed Key Generation

  • SSV has reached over $100M in TVL

• LST

  • Rocket Pool Bi-weekly Update

  • Rocket Pool is now the second LSD protocol to have over $1m ETH staked

  • rETH can now be used as collateral on the ETH - Ethereum market in Compound.

  • Design and development of liquid restaking token (LRT) primitives is déjà vu.

  • Introducing Blast: The only Ethereum L2 with native yield for ETH and stablecoins.

  • Introducing Swell Earn. You can now monitor yield strategies, explore the ecosystem, and deploy swETH to DeFi

  • swETH has hit $10M

  • StakeWise V3 Oracle Network Result

  • LSTfi Report: The Ultimate Q4 2023 Market Overview

  • Lido contributors have proposed a new staking router module

  • Summary of CSM presentation from the EthStaker event to provide clarity on the recent proposal.

  • A new proposal for Lido Community Staking Module introduces additional centralization risk.

  • If Blast keeps up the trajectory of the past few days, then Lido will blow through 1/3 of all ETH staked next week.

  • Huge Lido vulnerability

  • Lido Node and Validator Metrics update Q3’23

EthStaker Corner

• Is a decent SATA SSD suitable for ETH staking?

• Wondering if anyone can help me analyse why I missed a proposal

• Reputable beacon chain for prysm validators?

• With Intel's NUC Discontinued, I'm Looking For A Comparable Alternative

• NUC freezes every few hours

• NUC freezing every 10 to 30 days

• Avado or Saas for staking

• ETH Validator + Bitcoin Validator in one machine

• What are the threats to Ethereum with concentrated stake beyond 33%?

• What are the most significant technical challenges you've faced staking, and how did you overcome them?

• Long term HODLing: ETH Vs rETH

• Is Ubuntu 16.04 Better than 22.04 on a NUC?

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Gnosis is looking for DevRels

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.11.0

  • Prysm v4.1.1

  • Lodestar v1.12.0

  • Nimbus v23.10.1

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.5

  • Nethermind v1.22.0

  • Erigon v2.54.0

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.11

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

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Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Awesome Gnosis Chain Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• ENS domain support for validator deposits as well as on the transaction page has been added on beaconcha.in

• 79 nodes (0.65% of all Ethereum nodes -- a 0.22% increase) serving Ethereum all across LATAM.

• The first distributed validator MEV block on mainnet was proposed.

• Strange Water 30: Decentralization Maximalism with Superphiz

• DVStakers update - A new milestone for Ethereum DVT!

• Gnosis Chain Monthly Validator Recap - October ‘23

• A set-theoretic view of Ethereum coteries

• Quic Support from Lighthouse

• Smoothly - a smoothing pool for solo stakers.

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Obol DVs on Mainnet : DV Benefits for Validator & Network Resiliency

  • Obol Charon v0.17.1 release is out.

  • Solo Staking with DVT by ether.fi and Obol. This is a workshop for Ethereum and solo-staking enthusiasts who want to learn more about running a node with DVT

• LST

  • Rocket Pool Bi-weekly Update

  • Why did the Diva Staking DAO Self-limit to 22% staking share?

  • The Machine Room - a series of public conversations with Ethereum node operators by StakeWise

  • Incentivizing liquid staking diversity with Swell

EthStaker Corner

• How do you convince people to care about staking?

• Would you recommend any Geth .service commands or NUC bios or settings tweaks to make my setup more consistent?

• A few hours ago, Lido got a block with a 264 ETH MEV reward.

• Can Someone Explain The Different Types Of Ethereum Validator Rewards

• Why not run a Rocket Pool node?

• Reason why your node went down?

• Missed block proposal value

• Should I entirely switch over to Rocket Pool?

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.10.0

  • Prysm v4.1.1

  • Lodestar v1.12.0-rc.1

  • Nimbus v23.10.0

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.3

  • Nethermind v1.21.1

  • Erigon v2.53.4

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.10

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

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Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Awesome Gnosis Chain Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• How Many Solo Stakers are there? - GLCstaked

• Prysm Quarterly Update: Summer Recap and What’s Ahead

• Minimum Viable Issuance - A thread on staking economics

• Beaconcha.in 2024 Update

• StakeSaurus - open source end-to-end ETH home-staking guide

• Protocol and staking pool changes that could improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead - Vitalik Buterin

• Stereum 2.0.0 - rc.23 out now with new QoL Features

• Awesome Gnosis Chain Staking Resources

• Gnosis Chain Validator Meetup #10

• Magnitude and direction of Lido attack vectors

• Staked ETH grew 50% since withdrawals

• Lido failed to get support from the latest Arbitrum grant vote

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Staking Router Module Proposal

  • Obol Distributed Validators on Mainnet w/ P2P, Stakin & Chorus One

• LST

  • Rocket Pool Bi-weekly Update

  • Rocket Pool has reached 25,000 validators.

  • Rocket Pool is deployed to the Holesky testnet

  • Maverick x cbETH x swETH x unshETH: the State of LSTs

  • Democratizing Home Staking - Diva

EthStaker Corner

• Zero Queue!

• Errors after upgrading Geth

• Effectiveness dropped to 95% lately

• Does anyone use Akasa Turing Cases?

• Dedicated server host recommendations?

• 90 days of attestations. No blocks proposed.

• Moving houses as a solo staker

• We're on the verge of completely clearing the activation queue, as we've reached approximately 840,000 active validators.

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.10.0

  • Prysm v4.1.0 - alpha

  • Lodestar v1.11.3

  • Nimbus v23.9.1

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.3

  • Nethermind v1.21.0

  • Erigon v2.52.5

  • Besu 23.7.3

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.10

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

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Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Awesome Gnosis Chain Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• The Holesky testnet is now live.

• Navigating Ethereum's 2024 Consensus Landscape

• solo-staking rig: hardware/software setup

• Explore how Paprika, an experimental path-based storage for Nethermind maps Ethereum concepts to its design.

• AVADO has just added support for Nimbus alongside Prysm and Teku as a Consensus client.

• Stand with Ethereum developers, researchers, educators, & minority LSTs against Lido's attack on the network.

• LidoBox arrived for testing.

• Is Lido good for Ethereum? Dapplion response

• Whisk: Returning privacy to Ethereum Proposers

• Announcing Nethermind Summit Istanbul

• EthCatHerders's Dencun Upgrade page

• The Raspberry Pi 5 has been announced

• Snappy Compression Benchmarks on Ethereum’s blocks

• Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?

• Ethereum Proposer-Builder Separation: Past, Present, and Future

• Holešky Testnet Guide by Coincashew now available.

  DVT & LST Updates

  • DVT

    • Successful registration of an Ethereum mainnet ObolNetwork DVT cluster to the Ultrasound Money MEV Boost relay for Ether Fi Operation Solo Staker

  • LST

    • Professionalizing Liquid Staking and DeFi: Compliance, Security, and Coverage

    • Rocket Pool Community Twitter Space

    • Diva Early Staker Vaults has been started.

    • Stader Update #3

    • New Epoch by StakeWise: September Edition

EthStaker Corner

• Done with solo staking

• solo staking as a real job

• Running more than one validator on the same computer

• At today's rate, your validator will propose a block once every four months, or three per year.

• Luckily, I decided to double-check before updating my client that no proposals were scheduled for my validators. This spared me from losing out on a ~0.25 ETH block.

• Be a Solo Validator, They Say

• What's the minimum APR that you would consider to stake?

• Best UPS to run my node?

• Failing all attestation, top notch hardware, no clue whats happening?

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.9.1

  • Prysm v4.1.0 - alpha

  • Lodestar v1.11.3

  • Nimbus v23.9.1

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.2

  • Nethermind v1.21.0

  • Erigon v2.49.3

  • Besu 23.7.2

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.10

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Happy Mergeversary! 🐼

• EIP 7251 Explainer - A non-technical guide to understanding proposed changes under EIP 7251

• Let’s reduce the churn limit to give us more time to deal with the economic and technical consequences of liquid staking

• The Beacon chain is growing exponentially

• Stereum v2.0.0-rc.22 is out

• Eth Docker v2.3.4 has been released.

• How crazy that my $600 piece of hardware can permissionlessly play a role in securing a $200 billion network.

• Release of a new mev-boost builder, built in rust, extending `reth`

• Getting close to 800k active validators on the beacon chain

• Stable devnet running a PoC of Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) on a fork of Lighthouse ~ Geth

• Can we find Goldilocks? Musings on “two-tiered” staking, a native Liquid Staking Token design.

• The Lodestar User Incentive Program: List of Winners & Dispute Period

• DVStakers are working on a project in Kenya to move our Ethereum DVT nodes from an office in Nairobi to a small village using Starlink and solar power.

• The Gnosis Chain has reached 150K validators.

• Latest NethermindEth RC brings impressive improvement in OldBodies sync but how about making Nethermind 2x faster with just one flag?

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • A mechanism for a good validator set maintenance by Nethermind Research

  • Obol Mainnet Alpha DVs & Large Scale Performance Testing

  • SSV Network launching decentralized staking mainnet

• LST

  • Enshrined LST

  • ClayStack has released its DVT implementation of Ethereum liquid staking on Mainnet

  • yETH is now live

  • Mapping Out LSDFi Ecosystem

  • How-to Install an Operator & Register a Node with DAppNode - Diva Staking Demo

EthStaker Corner

• Valid fanless hardware? - second try

• US Solo-stakers: What is your MEV-boost relay setup?

• Pruning failure

• Validator queue is drying up!

• Feeling bad turning off my node

• 2.7% APR, Am I doing it wrong?

• Why am I sometimes missing attestations even though other validators during the same slot and on the same machine did attest.

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.9.0

  • Prysm v4.0.8

  • Lodestar v1.11.1

  • Nimbus v23.9.0

  • Lighthouse v4.4.1

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.1

  • Nethermind v1.20.3

  • Erigon v2.49.2

  • Besu 23.7.2

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.8

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Video & Podcast

The LSTfi Summit

The Impact of Distributed Validator Technology on the Staking Ecosystem -

Reinventing Liquid Staking with StakeWise V3 - Kirill Kutakov

Decentralised Governance For A Decentralised Secured Network (Why Decentralised Governance Of Staking Protocols Is Essential) - Raul Calvo

Taking Decentralization Beyond Current Borders: A Holistic Framework For Community Staking - Pol Lanski

The Magic Behind Trustless Distributed Validators In Diva - Miguel Prada

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• New update has been published for clientdiversity.org

• The Lodestar user incentive program has ended

• The RocketPool network has just surpassed 25,000 validators

• A new lightweight Beacon Chain explorer

• A MVP of the Devnet8 explorer is now accessible at beaconcha.in

• Dencun testing overview

• Sneak peek teaser of Geth 1.13.0

• Stake House released a new Wagyu Key Gen version with Holesky support

• Proof of Validator: A simple anonymous credential scheme for Ethereum's DHT

• StakingRewards reports that $187M worth of ETH has been staked over the past 24 hours, contributing to a total of $3.35B ETH staked over the past 30 days

• First stable version of Lighthouse's validator management UI (codename: Siren) has been released.

• Ether Fi Operation Solo Staker is LIVE on Mainnet

• Ether Fi Operation Solo Staker just proposed their first Ethereum mainnet block using DVT validators with solo stakers running from home

• EF announced the official release of the Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (or EELS)

• Hasu explains why he thinks solo stakers will be <1% of the network & why liquid staking will crowd out all others. Says earlier that we'll converge on one LST. Lido aims to capture 99% of Ethereum 's consensus. This kills Ethereum's credible neutrality.

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Accelerating decentralisation with DVT - Nimbus X Diva Twitter Spaces

  • Diva Staking Community Call #1 - Operator Testnet Launch

  • Lido Node Operator Community Call

  • Journey Into the World of DVT: Decoding the Power of Next-Gen Staking

  • Obol has launched their latest version v.0.17.0

  • Obol Network - Performance Testing Distributed Validators

  • StaFi launched bug bounty for DVT Integration programme

  • Rocket Pool Community Call with SSV

• LST

  • Rocket Pool Community Call Restaking Special

  • Imagine liquid-staking your ETH, funding public goods and decentralising Ethereum all in one go

  • StakeWise V3 Liquidity - SWISE

EthStaker Corner

• Execution clients are not immune. This is a friendly reminder for client diversity!

• SSD Space Requirements - Planning Ahead 6/12 months

• Am I the only one whose attestation efficiency has just dropped? I'm now down to 95%.

• The Bear Case for Rocket Pool

• Lost validator keys in fire

• Deciding on a staking method

• DDOS complaints from ISP & Servers

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Validator Relations & DevRel - Obol Network

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.8.0

  • Prysm v4.0.8

  • Lodestar v1.11.0

  • Nimbus v23.8.0

  • Lighthouse v4.3.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.12.2

  • Nethermind v1.20.3

  • Erigon v2.48.1

  • Besu 23.7.1

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.8

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

The Top Meme of the Week 🫠

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• EthStaker's hosting a Staking Gathering again this year at EFDevconnect. If you'd like to speak, apply here

• Landing blocks with a reth mev-boost builder

• Gnosis Chain staking survey continues. If you are a GC validator or staker you can participate.

• Kiln - Useful Ethereum Spreadsheets

• Progress update on the Raspberry Pi DVT validators

• Geth snap sync from 14GB to 2GB

• Lodestar incentive program ends on Aug 23

• EigenLayer will raise the cap for LST restaking on Aug 22 at 7am PT

• The beacon chain churn limit has increased to 11 validators per epoch

• Nethermind 25% synced nodes on Ethereum mainnet

• Rocket Pool is by far the most decentralized LSD provider with 3000+ node operators.

• Announcing Octant: - a platform for experiments in decentralized governance that reward active participation with $ETH.

• Stereum v2.0.0-rc.21 is out

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Accelerating decentralisation with DVT - Nimbus X Diva Twitter Spaces

  • Zero Knowledge Trustless Oracles

  • Diva Operator Testnet is live

  • Lido DAO's Ethereum Node Operator Onboarding

• LST

  • New Epoch – the Monthly StakeWise Newsletter

  • Proposed StakeWise V3 liquidity strategy

  • Ether Fi’s Validating on the Ethereum Network: AMA with a Solo Staker Twitter Spaces

  • Balancer’s Ethereum Staking Updates

  • Lido Monthly Report July

  • Nexus Mutual diversifies $27.3 million into Rocket ETH using CoW Swap

  • Embark on an Exciting Journey: Unraveling the World of ETH Staking!

EthStaker Corner

• Can't stop checking my validator stats.

• Ethereum Home Staking Machine Incident Postmortem

• Drastically Fewer Proposals Post-Merge

• Anyone noticed that the load on CPU increased recently

• 16 years old looking to stake a small amount of ethereum (0.37 ETH or 680 USD equivalent), what's the best option for me?

• Recovering validator funds for family in worst case scenario - becoming incapacitated?

• Coincashew staking guide changed

• Ughh..."apt autoremove" uninstalled docker and brought down my validator

• NUC keeps freezing and a new hardware

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Validator Relations & DevRel - Obol Network

• Pocket Universe - Founding Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.8.0

  • Prysm v4.0.7

  • Lodestar v1.10.0

  • Nimbus v23.7.0

  • Lighthouse v4.3.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.12.2

  • Nethermind v1.20.1

  • Erigon v2.48.1

  • Besu 23.4.1

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.6

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Podcast, Meetup & Call

The Drama of The Week 🫠

The past 15 days have been quiet. We are resting now, and new dramas are being loaded…

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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The EthStaker community deserves immense recognition for their unwavering support. Kudos to their dedication and collaborative spirit! 💫

Latest Updates for Stakers

• Shapella upgrade has been successfully activated on the Gnosis Chain.

• 21% of the ETH supply is now staked.

• Golem Foundation have started to stake 100k ETH.

• Discover Smooth: Dappnode's MEV Smoothing Pool that levels the playing field for solo stakers!

• The Ethereum Staking Directory: A community-maintained directory of Ethereum staking providers. If you're a staking provider, please update your info.

• My validator just hit 36 Ether … so it’s generated 4 Ether in around 890 days, on average 0.0045 Eth a day. Nearly 2 1/2 years. DAppNode rocks

• Sedge v1.2.2 is live and ready for Gnosis Chain Shapella upgrade.

• Nethermind team successfully implemented stateless verification in the Nethermind client using Verkle Trees

• Lighthouse Update #42: Lighthouse v4.3.0 introduces significant networking upgrades, including a subnet backbone revamp to distribute the network workload and support for IPv6, aiming to improve resource usage and enhance the Ethereum network's performance.

• Teku's recent changes to its caching mechanisms have resulted in reduced memory usage and improved performance, with plans to make these cache optimizations default in upcoming releases.

• New EthStaker Knowledge Base tutorial: How to set up Tailscale VPN to access your home network remotely

• Real-time visualization of MEV-boost bids

• zkBri is looking for the most recent version of the ETH Solo-Validator List. If you have updates or a newer version, please share the link or send it to zkBri

• Want to monitor your own Ethereum staking history events view of the app? You can use Rotki

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • How DVT Helps: Digital Asset Custodians

  • The DVT Revolution with P2P

  • SSV Mainnet Call #2

• LST

  • StakeWise V3 live on testnet. Check out new features.

  • The Staking Foundation has open-sourced their docs for Diva Staking, now available on Github

  • Rocketpool University Node Operators & Governance Delegates Program

  • Weekly Swell Stats July 17th to July 25th

  • Lido Node Operator Community Call #8

  • Eigenlayer partner with Nethermind

EthStaker Corner

• Is running on the cloud not economically feasible?

• PSA: The Dangers of Running Validators on Underpowered Systems

• F%&*$K! Lost one of my validator menomics... What do I do?

• Lucky ETH staker just received over 1 Million USD staking reward

• how many validator do you think we will reach ?

• Spinning up a second validator - anyone have a guide?

• Minority Client Switcher

• Can you an eth validator along side rocketpool? If so, which one?

• Solo staking or POOL Staking?

• Low attestation effectiveness: help me debug

• Has anyone tried setting up a solo staker ETH node with used server hardwares?

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Validator Relations & DevRel - Obol Network

• NodeSet - Dev Ops Engineer

• Pocket Universe - Founding Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.6.2

  • Prysm v4.0.7

  • Lodestar v1.10.1-rc.0

  • Nimbus v23.7.0

  • Lighthouse v4.3.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth Krogam DMZ v1.12.0

  • Nethermind v1.20.1

  • Erigon v2.48.1

  • Besu 23.4.1

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha-4

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

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Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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