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The 2026 EthStaker staking survey results are out! 528 stakers told us how they run their validators and what they are worried about, and we analyzed that across the last 3 years of surveys. Link to full analysis with charts in the next tweet and more in thread. โ†“
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Join the Pectra upgrade community watch party tomorrow starting at 9:15am UTC! Livestream: piped.video/watch?v=NbxaCZYtโ€ฆ Countdown and other resources: ethereumupgrades.com/
The pectra hardfork on Ethereum is 17 hours away! ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Watch it happen in real-time on beaconcha.in and on the livestream by @ethStaker
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We're about 10 minutes away from starting the London Network Upgrade Livestream Party! It's not too late to hang out! Join the livestream here: piped.video/watch?v=afAFQY--โ€ฆ
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The 2025 Ethereum Staking Survey is now live! ๐Ÿ“ฃ All are called to respond here: ethstaker.org/forms/staking-โ€ฆ The survey collects a snapshot of the staking landscape and community sentiment. It also shows where advocacy efforts are making an impact or are needed. Please note that most sensitive questions are optional, so you can leave them blank if you prefer.
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An invalid block was propagated & accepted by several execution clients on Holeลกky & devs are debugging. Erigon / Reth combo working correctly. Nothing has finalized yet & enough validators on the wrong chain have been shut down to prevent finalization Devs are on top of it o7
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โ€ผ๏ธ Ethereum Client Diversity Update ๐Ÿ“ข As part of our client diversity strategy, we have successfully transitioned from GETH to BESU. Client diversity is an ongoing priority, and the GETH supermajority poses an extreme risk, possibly burning the majority of staked ETH in the worst-case scenario.
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DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator EthStaker, with @divastaking and @stakesaurus is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for 20 brand new node operators - you can apply to the program beginning this Friday, 15 Dec paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/dvtโ€ฆ The goal is to create new node operators in the world - DVT shouldn't be something that just brings up performance for already existing or professional operators
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CALL TO ACTION: Node operators should diversify their execution clients away from a majority Geth setup. In the current supermajority execution client environment, there's a significant monetary risk for operators running only Geth Read about it here: paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/exeโ€ฆ
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The 2025 Staking Survey is still open! Help us capture a snapshot of the Ethereum staking landscape as it stands today: ethstaker.org/forms/staking-โ€ฆ We're gathering insights from across the ecosystem: stakers of any type and non-stakers alike.
The 2025 Ethereum Staking Survey is now live! ๐Ÿ“ฃ All are called to respond here: ethstaker.org/forms/staking-โ€ฆ The survey collects a snapshot of the staking landscape and community sentiment. It also shows where advocacy efforts are making an impact or are needed. Please note that most sensitive questions are optional, so you can leave them blank if you prefer.
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Solo staker wondering what airdrops for being a solo staker you've missed? ethstaker.cc/airdrops Project wanting to drop to solo stakers? Reach out to us so we can help make the process clearer for solo stakers! Thanks @superphiz for the PR! (for doing a kickflip)
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Did you know that members of EthStaker have released audited free and open source software to help you set up your solo validator? - Wagyu Ken Gen is the staking-deposit-cli on easy mode - ethdocker and ethwizard are software that automate the staking process and guide you through it We absolutely endorse these projects and encourage new stakers to check these out to make the staking process smoother github.com/stake-house/wagyuโ€ฆ eth-docker.net/ github.com/stake-house/eth-wโ€ฆ
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BLOBS ARE COMING Testnets are forked, client releases are out, and blobs are here - have you updated your node for Dencun on mainnet? We'll be livestreaming the fork as usual, along with @EthCatHerders and @sassal0x March 13, 13:55 UTC (live at 13:00) piped.video/watch?v=iL0cZRkyโ€ฆ
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The 2024 Staking Survey report is published โœ”๏ธ Interesting tidbits about respondents: - 32% are genesis stakers - 74% do not work in crypto - 62% indicated that they have no plans to exit Take a guess on the % that are male (spoiler in the report) paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/staโ€ฆ
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Solo validators please consider using relay.ultrasound.money ๐Ÿ˜€
relay.ultrasound.money โ†’ 0 block censorship โ†’ 1559 block inclusions โ†’ 2.69% of validators connected
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Choose Your Staking Method New landing page just dropped elevating the self-assessment quiz widget to its own landing page and giving it some nice updates to encourage the most decentralized way you can. ethstaker.cc/choose-staking-โ€ฆ The choice of *how* to stake is yours.
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The Merge. It's happening. Are you prepared? What๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ: EthStaker Merge Prep Validator Workshop When๐Ÿ—“๏ธ: Friday, July 29th @ 11AM EDT This is a great opportunity for solo stakers to prepare for and ask questions about the merge. Full Details: bit.ly/3PnCeve #Ethereum
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Mint your POAP to create an indisputably authentic proof that you have been part of this historically relevant time in the life of ethereum. poap.delivery/goerli-testnetโ€ฆ
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what the faaaaaaack!? it's a total infestation of solo stakers! We're centraliziiiiiiiiiiing!
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gm - you can now stake any amount of ETH through the Ledger Live app with @Rocket_Pool and with @Kiln_finance Super excited to see @Ledger supporting diversification of staked ETH!
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Anyone can run an Ethereum node and support the health of the network. And with 32 ETH a node operator can become a solo staker and validate the chain. Using liquid staking and DV tech options an independent operator can stake with even less. Visit ethstaker.org and the Discord dsc.gg/ethstaker to learn more!
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EthStaker has a new open source website to provide a place to find all the best staking resources - docs, updates, guides, beginner resources & events - all under one roof ๐Ÿช… If you see any missing resources / have feedback, pls let us know or make a PR! ethstaker.cc/
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Solo stakers are a demonstrated base of people who not only hold tokens for long periods of time, but also look for ways to use those tokens in productive ways and are willing to run infra to do so They're the ideal candidates for your token airdrops
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The 2025 Staking Survey results are live! We received 740 total responses from stakers of all types including solo stakers, liquid protocol operators, professional operators, LST holders, Staking-as-a-Service (SaaS) users, and exited stakers. Responses cover rewards, issuance, centralization concerns, protocol risk, hardware, bandwidth, Pectra Type 2 validator adoption, and more, with new comparisons shown to 2024 data where relevant. Check out highlights and read the full report โ†“
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EthStaker will be livestreaming the @Rocket_Pool Atlas upgrade happening on Apr 17, 23:45 UTC (7:45pm ET) ๐Ÿงก Atlas: - Enables Shapella support / withdrawals - Allows validators to create / convert to 8 ETH minipools ๐Ÿช…โ• - Other updates piped.video/watch?v=YD_sgUaDโ€ฆ
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Wondering what hardware to buy to run a node? EthStaker now has a hardware page with rotating recommendations ๐ŸŽ‰ ethstaker.cc/staking-hardwarโ€ฆ
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Introducing the ethstaker-deposit-cli! The staking-deposit-cli has long needed some critical features for better staking UX. EthStaker's @remy_roy & Valefar have developed the ethstaker-deposit-cli & are starting the audit process on it so we can get these features to stakers ๐Ÿซก For context: the staking-deposit-cli is critical tooling for stakers to get up and running and was developed by the Ethereum Foundation before the launch of the Beacon Chain It was audited by Trail of Bits and has employed an ethos of "minimum viable feature updates" since then to maintain the security of the tool With changes to staking (withdrawals being a notable one!), there are features that would provide pretty clear UX improvements for new and existing stakers. EthStaker has been in conversation with the EF team who developed the original tool and have forked it to create a newer, EthStaker-maintained deposit-cli that will include new features like: - Prompting for a withdrawal address - The ability to create an exit message and perform a voluntary exit for your validators - Warnings if the machine you're using is connected to a network - Support for more recent OSes and Python versions by default - Better support for generating a large number of keys at once And a lot of other changes that are documented in version 0.1.0 release notes, linked in the next tweet We're kicking off the audit process for this software, also with @trailofbits and expect to finish that process and do a proper 1.0.0 release around Q4. Community contributions, testing, and suggestions are encouraged!
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๐Ÿ‘ that's another ~7% of all ETH staked that's now bringing down the supermajority risk This is what it looks like to have a responsible staking provider engineering team keeping assets safe
We have completed our initial rollout and are pleased to report that roughly 50% of our validators are now running on @nethermind
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Pectra is coming to Ethereum Mainnet!๐ŸŽ‰ May 7, 2025 at 10:05am UTC, Slot 11649024 To celebrate, weโ€™re hosting a community art @poapxyz design contest! The winner will be announced during the livestream watch party and receive a $500 USDC prize on @arbitrum . More details๐Ÿ‘‡
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One of the biggest misconceptions about solo and independent staking is the fear of penalties and slashing. Today, weโ€™re excited to share a new visualization that helps clarify these scenarios and what they actually mean, using the latest logic now live post-Pectra.
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Congratulations to BorisBlock on discord for winning our Eth2 mainnet POAP design contest with a landslide of a vote. We will be in touch to arrange sending you the $1000 prize that was kindly provided by @etherscan! These look awesome!
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Calling all home stakers! We're looking to investigate if stakers would be concerned about increasing network bandwidth ๐Ÿฅ Please help by filling out a quick survey ๐Ÿฅ You need a staking community POAPs (linked next tweet) to fill out the survey poap-feedback.deform.cc/Soloโ€ฆ
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Is the ETH-1 / ETH-2 merge (and PoW shutdown) coming before sharding? Learn this and more watching this Q & A session with @dannyryan : ethstaker.cc/community-call-โ€ฆ
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EthStaker is proud to be releasing its first production version of ethstaker-deposit-cli github.com/eth-educators/ethโ€ฆ. This CLI tool can be used to generate your validator keys, to generate your voluntary exit, to add a withdrawal address to an existing validator that does not have one and few other features. Check out documentation website on deposit-cli.ethstaker.cc/ for all details. Huge thanks to Valefar, @yorickdowne , @nixorokish , @remy_roy and @trailofbits for their efforts into bringing this project to completion!
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Shapella has arrived and we want you to be a part of this momentous occasion. Here are helpful links to participate YouTube Watch Party: piped.video/watch?v=BVq1pz3Fโ€ฆ POAP Painting Party:app.poap.art/shapella-upgradโ€ฆ
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Get a precious collectible to never forget the day of the merge.
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As expected, Goerli participation is low and the chain isn't finalizing. This could be a combination of client issues and of validators not updating / not running. Expect hours / days of non-finality. It's not particularly concerning and devs will spend the next few days making sure it's the result of validators not upgrading and not client issues (and debugging any client issues), hopefully nudging enough Goerli validators to upgrade to reach finality In any case, the Goerli testnet is now set to be deprecated - Goodbye Goerli! ๐Ÿซก Next stop, Sepolia! BLOBS ARE COMING
PSA: setting expectations for the Goerli hard fork tonight๐Ÿ‘‡ The participation is low (~80%). Losing finality requires approximately 10% of validators to be offline. Being offline could be due to operators not upgrading a piece of software (and there are multiple)...
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Pectra finalized! ๐ŸŽ‰โœ”๏ธ Thanks to everyone for joining the livestreamed watch party and don't forget to collect your POAPs to mark this moment. Congratulations to @Xofee3 for winning the community art contest! The winning art has been included in the commemorative POAP mints. For the POAPs you have two options: 1) To get the standard Pectra POAP and the community art POAP, send at least 0.005 ETH to poap.ethstaker.eth and you'll receive both. 2) To get the special supporter animated Pectra POAP along with the other two and etch your name onchain in Ethereum's history, send at least 0.05 ETH to poap.ethstaker.eth and you'll receive all three. These POAPs are all powered by and minted on @arbitrum! All funds received help EthStaker in our nonprofit mission to support the health and decentralization of Ethereum and its staking ecosystem. Get the full instructions and see the cool animations at ethereumupgrades.com/#poap and here โ†“
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If you're a home node operator (or aspiring to be), we'd love you to visit the Home Operator Community Hub at @EFDevcon Bangkok, Nov 12-15! We'll be there all 4 days of Devcon with a great series of mini workshops by different Ethereum staking and protocol-related teams More details to come, including: - the daily schedule - a POAP for stopping by - a POAP for coming to the hub with a NUC or similar computer or live SSH connection to a test node that will be used for a raffle of prizes!
Replying to @EFDevcon
Home Operators Hub ๐Ÿ’ป The Hub focuses on educating and supporting home node operators and validators, offering one-on-one troubleshooting, workshops, and roundtable discussions. You will learn about running nodes and validators with less than 32 ETH, gain insights into privacy, and explore accessible staking solutions, fostering a more decentralized Ethereum network.
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We're hosting @Rocket_Pool next Thursday, April 6th at 12 PM ET to talk about their Atlas upgrade ๐Ÿš€ We'll talk about how they're moving from 16 ETH minipools to 8 ETH minipools, withdrawals, and other things they've got planned piped.video/watch?v=H4MGmZP2โ€ฆ
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The Ethereum Shanghai / Capella fork enables withdrawals & goes live on Apr 12, 22:27 UTC When is ___ enabling withdrawals? Solo stakers: Apr 12, 22:27 UTC @Coinbase: ~Apr 13 @krakenfx : ~Apr 13 @Rocket_Pool: Apr 18, 00:00 UTC* @binance: by Apr 19 @LidoFinance: No date yet** *Rocket Pool's rETH liquid staking token is redeemable any time through Rocketpool's stake.rocketpool.net or selling it for ETH on a DEX, but node operators will be able to withdraw with the Rocket Pool Atlas upgrade **Lido's stETH liquid staking token is redeemable any time by selling it for ETH on a DEX, but node operators will be able to withdraw with the Lido V2 upgrade
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Right after the Shanghai fork is a good time to start looking into how you can move your ETH into a better protocol. If you're staking in Coinbase, you're going to have the opportunity to move to a decentralized, on-chain, more safe, more recommended way of staking
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A+ SOLO STAKING SOFTWARE Key generation: - staking-deposit-CLI - Wagyu Key Gen (GUI for staking-deposit-CLI) Setup: - EthDocker - EthWizard - Stereum - Sedge Quality of life: - Smooth - solo staking smoothing pool - Rescue Node - fallback node for emergencies & maintenance
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EthStaker conducted a short survey earlier this fall to collect data on solo staker bandwidth capacity, monitoring, and sentiment around potential increases to bandwidth requirements Check out the results here: paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/staโ€ฆ
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Holesky Dencun fork in ~13 hours! No EthStaker livestream but we'll see you for the mainnet Dencun livestream! countdown: wenmerge.com/ watch it go live: holesky.beaconcha.in/
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Who knew staking was so exhausting?
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Thanks for tuning into the call! POAP proceeds are going to the Smoothly solo staker smoothing pool to better incentivize the most critical and decentralized form of staking for censorship resistance on Ethereum! Dencun was a resounding SUCCESS. These devs & researchers are unmatched
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Sneak preview of a new hardware page coming to an EthStaker webpage near you
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Holeลกky is launched! Awesome job EF DevOps et al!! Welcome to the new testnet ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ’ฐโ”
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EthStaker's hosting a Staking Gathering again this year at @EFDevconnect - talks, panels, discussions on staking topics A-Z When: 13 & 14 Nov (first two days of Devconnect) Where: Istanbul, 2 min walk from main cowork If you'd like to speak, apply here: ethstaker.cc/staking-gatheriโ€ฆ
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Look at these beautiful @dappnode NUC lids!!! ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฏ
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Is your node ready for Dencun? โ˜‘๏ธ Consensus layer client updated? โ˜‘๏ธ Execution layer client updated? โ˜‘๏ธ mev-boost updated? t-minus 36 hours, procrastinatooors!
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New year, new community call ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ - Thursday, January 5th @ 5:00PM UTC ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ - piped.video/vGfD-aGAaiQ We'll be joined by the @ssv_network to discuss their platform! As always, there will be a POAP for those who attend the livestream.
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We're excited to share that EthStaker's Staking Gathering event at Devconnect 2025 now has a date and venue! ๐Ÿ—“ Tuesday, November 18, 2025 ๐Ÿ“ Malba โ€“ Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires If youโ€™re interested in giving a talk or organizing a panel, submit a proposal here: forms.gle/wDvpFgq8FUTKQQKY8 Get notified when tickets go on sale: forms.gle/YFzcTQm7PkAjLigWA And reach out to team[at]ethstaker.org for event sponsor opportunities! See more about Devconnect overall at devconnect.org
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Having frustrating, hard-to-identify issues w a NUC? Ready to chuck it out the gd window bc it keeps freezing? @ethStaker hardware guru @yorickdowne created a guide today on stabilizing it for 24/7 server operations. Be a happy node operator again :D gist.github.com/yorickdowne/โ€ฆ
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EthStaker supports the reduction of ETH staked in any protocol that houses >22% of staked ETH. This will be ever-shifting & means that we'll recommend different providers at different times, but right now is the time to withdraw from Lido and choose a more decentralized protocol
stake.lido.fi/withdrawals Move your ETH. Make Ethereum more robust. ??? Profit
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Frequently asked Dencun question: How much more disk space will my node need with blobs being added? Answer (from @yorickdowne): Max 103 GiB for blobs, expected average 50 GiB. A 2TB drive is still fine for now.
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Ongoing slashing event happening w some newly deposited validators. Looks like someone got fancy with a fallback & both setups are trying to attest. Their validators are getting slashed over time. Lots more to go if they don't shut down their setup soon Make sure you set up your own monitoring or @beaconcha_in notifications for your validators! beaconcha.in/validators/slasโ€ฆ
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We're hosting a livestream validator workshop with the @Rocket_Pool team on Saturday, August 28th @ 10:00pm UTC. Rocket Pool's very own senior blockchain engineer will be building a validator from scratch step-by-step. Set a reminder here ๐Ÿ‘‡ piped.video/watch?v=Id-bW1dxโ€ฆ
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Besu issue is resolved - please update your client software!
๐ŸšจAttention Mainnet users ๐Ÿšจ A recent Mainnet block triggered a bug in Besuโ€™s state database. If you are validating with Besu, please review the latest hotfix patch notes. They have details on how to get your node up and running: github.com/hyperledger/besu/โ€ฆ
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Proposer builder separation? ePBS? ETs? PTC? mevburn? WTF is all this & how does it relate to node operators? Is it affecting our income or node resources? Come join a community call w @terencechain and @barnabemonnot this Wed at 17h UTC to find out! piped.video/live/TiPSO8IKkxE
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Tickets are now live for EthStaker's Staking Gathering 2025 at Devconnect @EFDevcon! Learn what's new and coming in staking and meet the community. The event is open to all: solo stakers, devs, tool builders, researchers, protocols, institutions, stakers of all kinds, and anyone new and curious about staking. - Wave 1 starts today (more waves after each sells out) - Cost: $100 - Date: Nov 18, 2025 - Venue: MALBA, Buenos Aires @museomalba - When: 9am-10pm. There will be time to view the MALBA museum's exhibits in the evening! - Meals included - Talks livestreamed and archived on EthStaker's Youtube - Schedule forming through Oct, speaker/panel applications open until Sept. Ticket link in next tweet โ†“
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Huge thanks to the entire @Rocket_Pool team for taking time out of your day to jump on a AMA Livestream. If you weren't able to catch us live, check out the full recording below! ๐Ÿ‘‡ piped.video/watch?v=aONP0jnpโ€ฆ
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We're ~24 hours away from the Goerli Merge Community Call hosted by @bankless. Come hang out as we celebrate this historic moment. The EthStaker crew will be there, along with other special guests, and a @poapxyz will be distributed! Full Details: bit.ly/3zIf5wX
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"Thus, node storage hardware can support current rates of state growth for well over a decade without exhausting 2TiB of space. A 4TiB drive would suffice for almost half a century at current levels of state growth."
A must read post about Ethereum State Growth: paradigm.xyz/2024/03/how-to-โ€ฆ
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Want more info on the Ethereum hard fork happening '23 Q4 / '24 Q1 and what it's going to include? It's centered on Proto-Danksharding (4844) but there are lots more EIPs being considered for inclusion Check out the @EthCatHerders's Dencun Upgrade page: ethereumcatherders.com/dencuโ€ฆ
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โš ๏ธ There is currently a scam staking service that's aggressively marketing. Stakereum is not real, it's not staking. Before you stake with ANY service, do your research. Here's a helpful checklist: - Search EthStaker's discord for chatter about the service - Find the product's discord / community itself. If it doesn't have a community, it's likely a scam - Check the age of their twitter and their oldest tweets. A good staking protocol should have been in development and actively communicating for years! - Who are the founders of the project? Who is the team? No info on them? Likely a scam. - Read through all the instructions - the last instruction in their guide is to send 32 ETH to an address that they generate. ๐Ÿšฉ - The only place you should be sending 32 ETH to create a fully self-custodied validator is the official deposit address: etherscan.io/address/0x00000โ€ฆ
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Finland climbed ahead of Canada this month in node prevalence ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Meanwhile - the DVT Home Staker program applications so far have come in from 23 different countries ๐Ÿ™†
DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator EthStaker, with @divastaking and @stakesaurus is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for 20 brand new node operators - you can apply to the program beginning this Friday, 15 Dec paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/dvtโ€ฆ The goal is to create new node operators in the world - DVT shouldn't be something that just brings up performance for already existing or professional operators
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Hereโ€™s a clip dedicated to those who contribute to the health and security of the Ethereum network by their efforts to #stakefromhome
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Update! @EthStaker'll be hosting the Shapella Livestream from the @ethereum Protocol channel Apr 12th, 6pm ET: 30 min before the fork. We're also hosting a @POAPart paint party, organized by @Logic_Beach - canvas opens 1 hr pre-fork. Add your pixels! piped.video/watch?v=BVq1pz3Fโ€ฆ
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If you applied to speak at the Staking Gathering, first: thank you!! Second: you can expect to hear back by 13 Sep! We just published the first batch of confirmed speakers and we're very stoked already. See the full list of confirmed speakers here: ethstaker.cc/staking-gatheriโ€ฆ
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EthStaker will be hosting a livestream for the mainnet Dencun fork, to watch it go live and give real-time updates as usual ๐Ÿซก Will post details & link in ~a week Be there or be square
Ethereum's next network upgrade, Dencun, will go live on mainnet on the 13th of March. EIP-4844 is coming!
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Following guidance provided by government travel advisories, the EF, and people on the ground in Istanbul, EthStaker currently intends on proceeding with the Staking Gathering at @EFDevconnect Istanbul as planned
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If the issue were in Geth instead of Besu, a majority of the network would be offline right now. Please switch to a minority execution layer client! @nethermind highly recommended at this moment
Besu users may be experiencing downtime right now. Besu team is aware and on it - in the meantime, switch to another client or use @Rescue_Node while a fix is deployed
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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 For better or worse, we are terminally online and we try to get these pages up as soon as possible
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Besu users may be experiencing downtime right now. Besu team is aware and on it - in the meantime, switch to another client or use @Rescue_Node while a fix is deployed
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Tickets for EthStaker's Staking Gathering at @EFDevconnect 2023 are live ๐Ÿซก ticketh.xyz/ethstaker/devconโ€ฆ Speakers / schedule here: stakinggathering2023.sched.cโ€ฆ
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clientdiversity.org changed its data source & the new execution diversity data is much more concerning than what was shown before What happened? Did we not improve the network health? Answers published today: paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/newโ€ฆ spoiler: the new data better answers the question that we're really asking.
New update published for ClientDiversity.org! - New execution diversity data tells a different story ๐Ÿ˜ฐ - New consensus diversity data source - Dark mode support (finally! ๐Ÿ˜…) Let's talk about it ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿงต
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We are planning on making a POAP for solo stakers that build blocks locally (not using services like MEV-boost). Please propose ideas for the artwork.
PSA MetalAlbert is not running MEV-Boost. A few reasons... 1. It's buggy and poorly tested - it caused missed proposals today. 2. I believe in censorship resistance. 3. I just can't be arsed to run and maintain yet another piece of software. So I guess we're ngmi ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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EthStaker has added @dannyryan's "The Risks of LSD" as a notification bar on its website to highlight the issue of single liquid staking protocol dominance What other websites are important places to add education on the topic?
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See you next week for the livestream ๐Ÿซก Come for the logs or come for the POAP, we don't mind which
BLOBS ARE COMING Testnets are forked, client releases are out, and blobs are here - have you updated your node for Dencun on mainnet? We'll be livestreaming the fork as usual, along with @EthCatHerders and @sassal0x March 13, 13:55 UTC (live at 13:00) piped.video/watch?v=iL0cZRkyโ€ฆ
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From @VitalikButerin: "we should also have more workstreams where we try to deliberately break the network, simulate bugs and 51% attacks, etc on a testnet, so we can play out more of these scenarios in a safe setting in case they become reality. I wanna see a big public game where anyone can join "team 51% censorship attack" (also allowed to DoS and to spam social media) or "team good guys" and we watch a big battle unfold over the course of a month! wen simulated ethereum warz" -- commentary: In this way, breaking Holesky in Feb was actually healthy and we should aggressively battle test the testnets more often ... like military war games or financial system stress testing ... aright, let's go!
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Much appreciation and thanks to the sponsors that are making this event possible! Checkout our current sponsors and come to meet the teams in person at the event: @bitwise @LidoFinance @ethnimbus @sigp_io @aztecnetwork
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Finalized again. Devs looking into things
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EthStaker's core mission is to support solo staking and the health of the Beacon Chain. We pursue this mission through a variety of efforts including: 1) Providing world-class, free technical support and staking education 2) Organizing and hosting live and virtual events 3) Stewardship of grants for beneficial ecosystem contributors 4) Providing industry research and communication for the most critical topics 5) Developing open source staking software Last week, we kicked off an audit process of the new version of the Staking Deposit CLI. You can learn more about the newly developed ethstaker-deposit-cli here:
Introducing the ethstaker-deposit-cli! The staking-deposit-cli has long needed some critical features for better staking UX. EthStaker's @remy_roy & Valefar have developed the ethstaker-deposit-cli & are starting the audit process on it so we can get these features to stakers ๐Ÿซก For context: the staking-deposit-cli is critical tooling for stakers to get up and running and was developed by the Ethereum Foundation before the launch of the Beacon Chain It was audited by Trail of Bits and has employed an ethos of "minimum viable feature updates" since then to maintain the security of the tool With changes to staking (withdrawals being a notable one!), there are features that would provide pretty clear UX improvements for new and existing stakers. EthStaker has been in conversation with the EF team who developed the original tool and have forked it to create a newer, EthStaker-maintained deposit-cli that will include new features like: - Prompting for a withdrawal address - The ability to create an exit message and perform a voluntary exit for your validators - Warnings if the machine you're using is connected to a network - Support for more recent OSes and Python versions by default - Better support for generating a large number of keys at once And a lot of other changes that are documented in version 0.1.0 release notes, linked in the next tweet We're kicking off the audit process for this software, also with @trailofbits and expect to finish that process and do a proper 1.0.0 release around Q4. Community contributions, testing, and suggestions are encouraged!
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If you want a keepsake from the Goerli Dencun hardfork, you can mint songadaymann's Blobspace song or grab a Goerli Dencun POAP
BLOBSPACE ON GOERLI collect on @Optimism for .005 belowโ›“๏ธ๐Ÿฉท:
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What's the problem with Geth having a supermajority and are we ready to push for execution client diversity? @nethermind @HyperledgerBesu @yorickdowne
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Want to switch to a minority client or update your node setup but don't want to incur downtime penalties? Super happy that @Rescue_Node now supports solo stakers!! docs here: rescuenode.com/docs/ and a dedicated channel in the ethstaker discord if you need help with it LFG
The Rescue Node is now available to Solo Stakers ๐ŸŽ‰ rescuenode.com Solo Stakers can use this service as a fallback Beacon Node for maintenance and emergencies. Access is granted for 10 days at a time, twice per year.
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New page: research that will affect staking in coming months and years with some brief overviews and links. What else would you want to know about these active areas of research? ethstaker.cc/research
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Come to the Ethereum community livestream watch party for the Pectra network upgrade on May 7th at 9:15am UTC. Bookmark, save, set reminders: piped.video/watch?v=NbxaCZYtโ€ฆ Join us there! Lots of fun and education planned from a range of community individuals and contributor teams, including @ethStaker @EthCatHerders @ethereumfndn @thedailygwei @bankless and more. The network forks midway through the event at 10:05am UTC.
Ethereum's next network upgrade, Pectra, is coming to mainnet on May 7th, at epoch 364032 ๐ŸŽ‰ Pectra introduces EIP-7702, several improvements to validator UX, a doubling of the blob count (.oO!) and many other features! More on this below ๐Ÿ‘‡
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The Merge was a wild success, but wen POAP? - Donate $10 in USDC/RAI/DAI/ETH/MATIC on either Mainnet/Arbitrum/Optimism or Polygon - Donations accepted until 00:00 UTC Sept. 18 - POAP.delivery distribution Full Instructions here ๐Ÿ‘‡ piped.video/ZY7eXUn7Mpo
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We're seeing a huge uptick in activity in the EthStaker channels since withdrawals were enabled - asking what protocols to use, how to move their stake to another service, clarifications and troubleshooting with solo staking, and general interest questions we love to see it ๐Ÿš€
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Devconnect is confirmed for Buenos Aires, Argentina! And the Staking Gathering 2025 will be happening then too! More to come.
Devconnect is coming to Buenos Aires, Argentina from 17-22 November 2025!! ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Devconnect ARG will be different: We want to support an effort the local community has already started โ€” bringing Argentina onchain. Read about Devconnect ARG & how you can get involved๐Ÿ‘‡
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The Shapella fork (withdrawals) goes live on Goerli on Tues March 14, 22:25 UTC EthStaker will livestream it to update you on the latest progress on the mainnet fork, a recap of what stakers need to do to prepare, and watch the fork happen in real-time. piped.video/watch?v=mu_oKzmvโ€ฆ
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Thought exercise: can we quantify the dollar amount of ETH that could be lost in the event of a supermajority bug? Some discussion of the exercise by @yorickdowne and @grey__wizard here: teddit.net/r/ethstaker/commeโ€ฆ
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Backed by the @ethereum Foundation, @clrfund and EthStaker have teamed up to run a Quadratic Funding (QF) round with a 350,000 DAI matching pool dedicated to funding open source public goods for the Ethereum staking ecosystem. Full Details: piped.video/watch?v=N2ELsyaCโ€ฆ
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Here's a sneak peak of the POAP you'll get for attending a @EFDevcon Home Operator Hub workshop w a NUC or SSH connection to a testnet node The @poapxyz lets you enter a raffle to win one of three @gridplus Lattices or a discount code! Cohosted by @dappnode & @EthereumOnARM!
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