Leading the development and adoption of the most composable, Ethereum-aligned Distributed Validator Middleware through the Obol Network and its ecosystem.
🗓️ Today is a historic day for the decentralisation of stake on
#Ethereum
!
🎊 Obol DV Clusters are ready to be activated in the
@LidoFinance
Simple DVT Module on Ethereum Mainnet, pending ETH deposits!
How did we
#RunDVT
on Lido?
🛣️ Our 2.5 year journey: 🧵👇
We're happy to announce that we've raised a $12.5M Series A led by
@PanteraCapital
and
@archetypevc
to accelerate our journey of scaling & decentralizing PoS networks!!
Some details on why we're excited 🎉🧵
#RunDVT
As we've mentioned, we are committed to bringing DVT to Mainnet this year
The next step. The Bia Testnet Will launch later this month. We are looking to involve everyone who's interested in DVT or running a node. Join us. 💪
We’re happy to announce that we’ve now officially entered our Alpha Release phase!
For the first time, we'll be deploying DVs on Mainnet together with the community 🔥
This starts our process of progressively integrating Obol into staking apps.
🧵
📣 Attention: BIG Announcement!! 📣
Obol Mainnet Open Beta will be officially live on December 1 2023!
Details here:
This gives everyone the opportunity to
#RunDVT
and participate in
#SquadStaking
on Ethereum Mainnet!
Let's break it all down: 🧵👇
📣 🎆 The Obol Mainnet Open Beta is now officially LIVE!
This marks a significant step towards decentralising stake on
#Ethereum
.
Now, anyone has the opportunity to run Distributed Validators on Mainnet!
Here is what you need to know to
#RunDVT
: 👇🧵
We're thrilled to share that we've been running the first DV cluster on Mainnet Ethereum since Dec 30 with a 🔥 98.6% eff. rating!
As this is the first phase of our Road to Mainnet 🛣 it's time to discuss our design philosophy and approach. 👀🧵
#RunDVT
We're happy to announce that we have partnered with
@nethermindeth
to begin a working group to research, specify, implement, and maintain Obol V2: the 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 💡
#RunDVT
🎇 We are proud to announce that the first Obol Distributed Validators with *Native Restaking* on
@eigenlayer
have been deployed and are live on Goerli Testnet!
Follow this thread to understand the importance of this announcement for
#Ethereum
's staking ecosystem: 👇🧵
MAJOR UPDATE on two key initiatives!! 🚀
🌎 Over 45 orgs (and 27 solo operators) joined our Alpha Phase (first Mainnet DVs)
📊 We are launching our Ecosystem Performance Testing effort w/ some of the largest operators in the ecosystem
🧵👇
#RunDVT
While DVT is a critical part of Ethereum's roadmap, the potential applications reach across PoS blockchains. 🪐
This blog post is Part 1 of a research series where we explore potential use cases of DVT within Cosmos 🌌
Follow our thread to get the TL;DR
Today, the Obol team is humbled and proud to announce our $6MM raise from industry-leading investors to build a multi-operator validator network to securely scale the next generation of staking products!
🧵1/
🚨 MAJOR Announcement:
📊 Obol DV clusters in the
@LidoFinance
Simple DVT Testnet on Holesky have met performance requirements to move forward with
#Ethereum
Mainnet deployment!
✍️ Read our blog for more details!
🧵👇
Heard a lot about DVT but still don't really know what it is and why it matters? 🧐🧐 Look no further.
Here's a quick guide on what it is and how it improves PoS
#Ethereum
👇. 🧵or 📄
#RunDVT
👏 The first-ever Restaked Obol Distributed Validator Clusters on Ethereum Mainnet are LIVE!
🎉 As a part of
@ether_fi
's *Operation Solo Staker*, the two clusters are integrated with *Native Restaking* on
@eigenlayer
!
#SquadStaking
On the 2nd anniversary of the Beacon Chain launch that brought the first gen of
#Ethereum
validators, we have some BIG NEWS 📢🚨🧨!!
Today we launch our Distributed Validator Launchpad 🚀 to help bring on the next gen of Eth staking. 🧵
#RunDVT
We are pleased to announce that the
@LidoFinance
DAO has successfully funded a research grant for the
@obolnetwork
to continue to work on trust minimized staking technology.
🧵1/13
More BIG news!! Today we're excited to launch two key initiatives for our community 📢🚀
🧪 Bia Testnet: Our second testnet to stress test DVT with >5k validators globally
🌎 Ambassador Program: Scale contributions to our mission
👀🧵
#RunDVT
We're excited to share a KEY REPORT! 📢📢
How does the perf of Obol DVs compare w/ trad nodes?
Blockchain Observatory
@miga_labs
ran a perf test over 10000 epochs and scaled a single DV cluster to 3000 validators.
Results 👇👀📈
#RunDVT
#SquadStaking
⛰️ We have achieved another milestone in our journey to decentralise liquid restaking protocols!
💻
@ether_fi
has committed to deploying $100M worth of stake (1,000 validators) on Obol DVs!
Don't know what DVs can do for
#restaking
? Come learn more! 🧵
Today we are excited to share our genesis community along with our guiding mission, vision, and values on our path to securing the decentralization of Proof of Stake Ethereum.
🎉 A very special congratulations to all of the
@LidoFinance
X
@ObolNetwork
Node Operators who have been officially selected for the
#Ethereum
Mainnet Lido Simple DVT Module! 👏
📜 The complete list of everyone who has been selected for the first wave of cohorts: 👇🧵
Today we are honored to launch the Obol Proto Community, an onramp to organize, educate, and incentivize community members contributing to DVT and the Obol Ecosystem.
As we reflect on 2022, we are reminded about the importance of ensuring Ethereum (and other PoS chains) stay resilient and decentralized. 🌎💪
DVT has come an incredibly long way to helping that cause. 🎗
Some highlights 🧵 /10
#RunDVT
👀 Client diversity awareness is on the rise!! 📈
@LidoFinance
DAO Node Operators are being encouraged to publicly commit to further decreasing the use of majority EL clients for Lido validators! 👏
For more details:
Congrats to
@lodestar_eth
for becoming the first validator client to support aggregation duties w/ DVT! This was one of the final missing technical pieces and now allows DVs to be fully duty complete.
#RunDVT
#SquadStaking
🎉 We are very excited to announce that the first
#SquadStaking
#Ethereum
Community Distributed Validator Cluster for the Obol Mainnet Beta was created!!
Huge shoutout to
@superphiz
and the nine other members of the Dream Validators Team ("DVT") cluster!! 🙌
#RunDVT
🧵👇
🎉 2023 was a transformative year for Obol.
This was the year where we brought Distributed Validators to
#Ethereum
Mainnet and helped push
#RunDVT
adoption.
Let’s recap what we accomplished this year and what this means for the future of staking!
🧵👇 (1/17)
Building great tech requires a great team!
Last week our team got together for our annual offsite in sunny Cape Town to chart out the future of DVs on
#Ethereum
...and of course, mixed in a little fun! 🥾🏝🏔🏄♂️
(fyi we're hiring 👀)
4/ Today we're launching the DV Launchpad in a public beta and will be ensuring its ease-of-use and quality in our next major testnet, Bia, early Q1'23. 🧪
If you're interested in DVT or staking, we want you to join us!! 🙋♀️🙋 Pre-reg below👇🏻
📣 MAJOR Announcement:
🛣️ Introducing the R&D Roadmap for Obol, the Distributed Validator Protocol!
👉
🌐 The DV Protocol will be the foundation for a credibly neutral, trust-minimised, infrastructure layer for
#Ethereum
!
One of the first adopters of DVT are liquid staking protocols 💦, with
@stakewise_io
,
@LidoFinance
, and others publicly stating their commitment to the tech.
Some details on what problems & benefits DVT has for
#liquidstaking
. 👇🏻
📢 Attention!
The
@LidoFinance
Simple DVT Module Proposal has officially passed!
99.99% of the vote approved Lido's first module to use Obol DVs on Ethereum Mainnet.
Congratulations to everyone who chose to
#RunDVT
!
Last week, the Obol Team held an offsite event in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹!
An incredible amount of work and team building was completed in several days.
We left the event reignited with a vigorous team spirit and our mission to
#RunDVT
. 🔥
The team behind the mission! 👇
Announcing the release of our Ethereum Staking Ecosystem Dune Dashboard!
There isn't a comprehensive source of truth for the Ethereum network, so we created one. 😎
Be sure to check it out 📊🔥
Join
@JuanG_RS
for a journey through ETH staking data 🧵
@stakewise_io
just announced a product that will revolutionize liquid staking! StakeWise V3 Vaults will enable individual stakers to mint a liquid staked ETH token while staking their own ETH.
Vaults will use DVT and protect
#Ethereum
(long but good 🧵👇)
The Beacon Chain is already too centralised - only 4 entities control a whole 60% of the stake.
Let's do something about it🤝
Introducing StakeWise V3 - a major upgrade to the StakeWise protocol aiming to help decentralize Ethereum.
🎊 Milestone Achievement: Obol Splits 🔀 has been used by one of our Mainnet Distributed Validator Clusters for the first time!
This Ethereum Mainnet DV Cluster has been successfully running under node operators
@paulsalis
@_Gnong
@dhruvbodani
and
@sassal0x
!
🗒️ Background:👇🧵
The secret is out about DVT! 🤫
For the first time, there were multiple sessions
@EFDevcon
about this critical tech for post-Merge
#Ethereum
!
We know it’s hard to sort through the 300+ talks, so here’s a quick guide 🦮👇1/6
🚨 A few hours ago, about 100
#Ethereum
Validators were slashed ❌ due to attestation violations: . This is exactly why we need to
#RunDVT
to prevent these significant slashing events.
Learn more about how DVT mitigates slashing risk below: 👇🧵
Today we are excited to announce our time commitment to the Flashbots Eth2 working group.
We are fully aligned with Flashbots mission to provide an open, democratic, and long-term solution to MEV while protecting solo stakers!
🧵
🛡️ ETH Staking Insurance is about to get cheaper! 🛡️
Announcing our collaboration with
@ChainproofDAI
and
@RelmInsurance
to offer slashing insurance for Obol Distributed Validators (DVs), at lower cost than traditional validators!
👇🧵
🏃 We are moving towards a more decentralised & trustless staking environment!
@lidofinance
DAO has voted to approve the deployment of the Simple DVT Module. 👏
🎯 Obol DVs will be utilised to scale and diversify the Lido Node Operator Set on Mainnet!
The Lido DAO has voted to approve the deployment of the Simple DVT module, the first Staking Router module geared towards increasing the adoption of DVT in the Lido protocol and broadening the Node Operator base through the addition of community stakers.
🔦 The importance of increasing client diversity is back in the community spotlight.
This is a problem we've been thinking about from day one. The last time a client issue happened, DVT prevented a negative impact. 🛟
Here's how.
#RunDVT
👇🧵
The finality issues with Ethereum last week highlighted how critical client diversity is to the resiliency of the network. 💪
In our Alpha clusters on Mainnet, like the one w/
@everlasting_io
we didn't see any impact by the disruption on the Beacon Chain.
Why it's impt 🧵
Happy to be helping
@LidoFinance
towards their goal of decentralising and improving the resilience in their operator set. 🌎
The SimpleDVT module intros the first new mainnet module in Lido, which runs DVs, providing more opps to community stakers!
👀👇
1 week into the Bia Testnet and already >125 clusters have been formed!! ❤️
Also seeing a nice distribution of participants from around the world...But come on Americas & Africa, where you at?? 👀🌎
It's not too late to register! 👇🏻
The finality issues with Ethereum last week highlighted how critical client diversity is to the resiliency of the network. 💪
In our Alpha clusters on Mainnet, like the one w/
@everlasting_io
we didn't see any impact by the disruption on the Beacon Chain.
Why it's impt 🧵
We are committed to improving both the Client diversity and Geographical diversity of ETH Validators. This is in large part made possible by
@ObolNetwork
DVT so we don’t have to rely on high availability infrastructure like AWS to achieve excellent uptime across 🇳🇿🇸🇬🇦🇺🇯🇵
In order to perform aggregation duties as a DV, validator clients need to be able to determine together when they should aggregate.
We have been working w/ key consensus layer stakeholders for a non-intrusive, non-breaking solution to this (🧵 1/5)
📣 Attention: BIG Announcement!! 📣
Obol Mainnet Open Beta will be officially live on December 1 2023!
Details here:
This gives everyone the opportunity to
#RunDVT
and participate in
#SquadStaking
on Ethereum Mainnet!
Let's break it all down: 🧵👇
🎓 We are very excited to announce the official launch of the Obol Techne Credential Program! This program aims to increase opportunities for the Obol community and broader staking ecosystem. Here are the main features of this program: 🧵👇
🚨 Charon v0.19.0 Update:
💻 After a smooth Dencun fork on Goerli, we now recommend every Obol DV Cluster to upgrade to v0.19.0.
👉 v0.17.0 users: please upgrade to v0.18.0 before others in your cluster upgrade to v0.19.0 to ensure every node can take part in validation!
Delighted to have been able to co-host this picnic with the super teams from
@alluvialfinance
@ratedw3b
&
@biconomy
✨🥂
Quality time discussing the future of
#Ethereum
Staking with quality people in the middle of the city of light 🗼
Special thanks to everyone who spent time putting
@EFDevconnect
together.
Also special thanks to the
@ethStaker
team for putting together the staking gathering!
We were fortunate enough to get most of the team into the country!
One of the best yet 🇳🇱…now back to work ⌨️🔥
From Mar-May we performed a 2nd round of testing w/
@LidoFinance
running 10 DV clusters of varying sizes led by existing NOs and community stakers.
The test was a success w/ clusters showing strong perf, successful block proposals, and minimal downtime. 💪
#RunDVT
#SquadStaking
The 2nd round of testing
@ObolNetwork
based distributed validators (DVs) through the Lido Node Operator registry on Goerli was a success, with 42 new NOs taking part ✅
This is a no-brainer 🧠
Helping to develop the at-home staker community while improving decentralisation and resiliency of the network is EXACTLY what our mission is for DVT.
Glad to be working w/
@ether_fi
@DAppNode
@AvadoCloud
on this 🔥 initiative.
1/We have a big announcement.
is VERY EXCITED to annouce OPERATION SOLO STAKER👇
The program has one simple goal – to empower individuals around the world to become solo stakers🧵
Progress! 🧗♂️Over the past month
@LidoFinance
has been running a pilot w/ Obol DVT on Goerli with near-perfect attestation performance. We’re glad to see DVT as a big part of Lido and other LSPs strategy to enable solo/small operators and further decentralize the network.
#RunDVT
As a step towards permissionless participation in Lido’s Ethereum validator sets, we’re very pleased to present our pilot DVT integration with
@ObolNetwork
.
🛠️ Distributed Validator Technology
Lido has conducted two successful pilots integration of DVT with
@SSV_network
() and
@ObolNetwork
() on the Goerli testnet. Performance summary on the slide:
Delighted to have been able to co-host this picnic with the super teams from
@alluvialfinance
@ratedw3b
&
@biconomy
✨🥂
Quality time discussing the future of
#Ethereum
Staking with quality people in the middle of the city of light 🗼
📣 Attention: BIG Announcement!! 📣
Obol Mainnet Open Beta will be officially live on December 1 2023!
Details here:
This gives everyone the opportunity to
#RunDVT
and participate in
#SquadStaking
on Ethereum Mainnet!
Let's break it all down: 🧵👇
Get to know the Obol Core Team!! 🙆🙆♀️
First up our recent new Chief Growth Officer
@composeus
. In this conversation, he talks about his journey from
@Consensys
to Obol, what is Growth, his passion for Web3, and how we should build bridges to Web2.
👀
The vote for the release of Simple DVT is live 🌐
After a successful Snapshot vote, the mainnet Aragon vote for Simple DVT is live, marking the final phase of the governance process.
The main voting phase ends on Thursday 22nd Feb, 2PM UTC.
Vote here:
Engaging with our community is a big focus for us in Alpha and going forward 🤝
This week, we kick off with multiple opps to connect w/ the team, chat with us, and learn more.
First up: our first ever community call tomorrow at 5PM UTC!
We will also be holding our ✨ first ever community call ✨ on Apr. 20th at 5:00PM UTC!!
We will be diving into details about the state of the project and what's to come on our journey to V1.
Hold your calendar now! 🗓 (Check the blog for a cal invite)
✍️📚 We have released the latest edition of our "How DVT Helps" Educational Blog Series!
🖥️ "How DVT Helps Staking-As-A-Service Providers", written by
@WholegrainMax
, covers how
#RunDVT
benefits StAAS providers!
📖Read and learn more here: 👇
🎙 Great spaces next week!! 🎙
We will discuss the future of solo staking w/ our Alpha participants
@sassal0x
@dsrvlabs
@paulsalis
who are running a multi-org + solo staker DV cluster across three different countries.
Come tune in! 👀
Today we've released our latest version v0.14.
We've enabled provisional attestation support for
@ethnimbus
@lodestar_eth
and
@prylabs
validator clients, meaning every Ethereum validator client can attest as part of a distributed validator cluster! 🤝
DVT as a core infrastructure primitive can be applied to many areas of web3. 💪
In addition to other L1s, decentralizing sequencers in L2 is also a very promising use case.
@FigmentCapital
does a great job of explaining why 🧵
Being inclusive & improving the diversity of node operators is critical to ensuring the resiliency & decentralisation of Ethereum 🌎💪
We're very happy to share that we'll be collaborating w/
@She__Fi
to onboard a new group of solo operators!
Come join us! 🤝
We’re harnessing the power of community to decentralize & secure Ethereum!
Introducing SheFi staking squads, a collaborative opportunity for members to run nodes at-home & participate in Ethereum staking while earning rewards.
Thanks to
@ObolNetwork
!
Why is this exciting? 👇
Glad to be working with
@ether_fi
as their official DVT partner! Great to see more liquid staking providers focused on decentralization. Congrats on the raise and upcoming launch!
Introducing , a new kind of liquid staking protocol:
is a decentralized, non-custodial delegated staking protocol with a Liquid Staking Derivative token.
Our core feature is that stakers control their keys.
🔧 Meet our Full Stack Developer,
@hanannouman
!
💻 In this interview, Hanan talks about how she started software engineering, her journey into Web 3, her current role at Obol working on the DVT Launchpad/SDK and what
#RunDVT
represents to her!
👇
This recent proposal by
@adiasg
from the
@ethereum
highlights another critical value proposition for DVs:
Reducing infra cost and network stress by allowing more validators to be run on fewer machines — without losing resiliency. 💪
Let us explain 🧵
📢 We are happy to announce that v0.18.0 of our middleware Charon has been released! 🚀
🎯 Holesky fork support & Deneb integration
🎯 Batch aggregation & broadcast
🎯 Bug fixes
⚠️ v0.18.0 is only backwards-compatible with v0.17.0-series releases.
👉
Today we launched our latest version v.0.17.0! This release introduces MEV support (in beta) for newly formed clusters. 🚀
This is a CRITICAL element for DVs to offer competitive capabilities to traditional validators.
Full notes 👇
📣 Announcing our collaboration with
@liquid_col
: the enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol behind LsETH, brought to you by
@alluvialfinance
!
🤝 To strengthen the foundation of institutional-level liquid staking, it's time to
#RunDVT
!
👇🧵
Our Chief Technology Officer
@OisinKyne
speaking at the
@NethermindEth
Istanbul Summit at
@EFDevconnect
on "Designing the Distributed Validator Protocol". Yes you heard that right! He is giving insights into our future V2 roadmap.
#RunDVT
If you haven't heard already... this is a KEY time in the development of DVT. And we need to build the core team that will help the ecosystem for the next year.
We're hiring across dev, research, product, growth, people and more! Check out all our openings 👇…