A summary of my fireside chat with @VitalikButerin at the Home Staking Summit in Singapore last week if you weren't able to attend. *Disclaimer: This also includes some of my prior understanding and interpretation. Part 1 of 3: The importance of solo stakers Solo stakers serve as both the first and last line of defence for the Ethereum network. First line = Providing censorship resistance. Last line = Quorum-blocking set by preventing 67% finalisation of the wrong chain As a censorship resistant set, solo stakers are typically uncorrelated and unaligned with any organisations, making them a difficult target for regulatory capture or coercion. What this means is that, certain organisations can try to impose censorship on Ethereum but will likely only go as far as delaying these transactions. Full censorship will be extremely difficult because solo stakers exist on Ethereum (amongst other mechanisms). IMO this is a huge part on why ETH is the credibly neutral block space that serious money wants to settle on!😎 As a quorum-blocking set: Ethereum's social layer can organise a recovery from a 51% capture where the chain splits in 2 but finalising the wrong thing (i.e., 67% capture) will be very bad as the blockchain's past & future can be changed without direct slashing risks. One way to prevent finalisation capture is to increase the quorum threshold - e.g., from 67% to 75% or even 85%. At 85%, current numbers of identified solo stakers + unidentified stakers from @hildobby_ 's dashboard will be sufficient. But on the other hand, will this decrease the cost of attack to prevent finalisation? - e.g., from >33% to just >15% of staked ETH? Not necessarily, as there are cheaper backdoor ways to mount this attack even today. Eg. Bribing core devs or key employees of large node operators, or even outrightly buying out the large node operators Hence, the 33% of staked ETH here represents the highest cost of attack to hold the chain hostage. If so, then we are currently overpaying to prevent >33% front door attack today, which means there is room to decrease the budget in favour of better security against ">66%" attacks. The analogy Vitalik uses is that if we imagine a house with 10cm thick bulletproof glass as windows but has a crappy wooden door, then we should reallocate resources to strengthening the weakest link. The other more ambitious but realistic method is to increase the number of solo stakers such that we become the quorum-blocking set of the current finalisation threshold. How do we achieve this? Stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 for my discussion with Vitalik on Orbit SSF and Rainbow Staking!

Today I am open sourcing an end-to-end ETH home-staking guide that I use for my own business. It is a document that has been painstakingly compiled over the past couple of weeks, designed to bring any lay-person from zero-to-one on home-staking conceptually and operationally. Get it here - stakesaurus.gitbook.io/eth-f… There are 3 reasons why I am doing this: ✅ The Stakesaurus community - i.e. people I am helping run validators for and those I am teaching - will not be stranded if something untoward happened to me all of a sudden ✅ Ethereum is in a never-ending battle with centralising forces and increasing the number of solo node operators is a huge mitigator against recent concerns around liquid staking dominance ✅ I strongly believe node operations as a skillset has the potential to uplift many underserved communities in developing countries which I have written in more detail here (stakesaurus.beehiiv.com/p/et…). I intend for this layman-friendly guide to be the first step in bringing this vision to life. “Aren’t you killing your own market by doing this?” “It’s going to germinate more competitors for your business” As you know, Stakesaurus helps individuals set up and run their own ETH validators in a trust-less-ly. While there is truth to the questions above, I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing entirely. Here’s why: ⛔ People who want to run their own validators will always find a way. Perhaps they might take a little longer to get there but they will eventually - which means I will need to spend way more time converting them and retaining them. In short, the LTV/CAC might be less than 1 for this market segment so I should filter them out asap 💯 Conversely, people who do not want to spare head space on running their own validators will never do so themselves. This is the market segment I want to reach asap and this guide provides a glimpse into Stakesaurus’ node ops knowhow So if you found this guide useful and want to be a part of Stakesaurus’ journey, consider sharing it around with people who might consider home-staking! Credits: This guide references and builds upon several other guides that came before mine and I could not have been able to run my first validator without them. Huge thanks to these OGs for their work - @ethStaker , @coincashew_ @SomerEsat @Rocket_Pool

The new meta for solo stakers = Your own mini staking pool. Anyone can get there with minimal ETH by following this roadmap: 1) Practice for free on Google Cloud - guides in bio 2) Apply for hardware grants to offset fixed costs - e.g. EF's Run-a-node grant + more to come 3) Spin up a node via permission-less LSTs to get started with a smaller amount of ETH - e.g. @Rocket_Pool, @staderlabs, @divastaking (soon), @LidoFinance (soon). You only need 1 set of hardware to use multiple services 4) Participate in emerging staking initiatives such as @divastaking, @NodeOperators, DVTs (e.g. @LidoFinance's Simple DVT, SSV, Obol) 5) Scale TVL: Partner up with creators, community builders, DAOs, funds, and use @stakewise_io V3 to spin up a mini staking pool The result? Recurring income for yourself + more diversity on ETH consensus layer

Updated my ETH home staking guide after the last version 9 months ago--dvt-homestaker.stakesaurus.c… New content: 1) Optimised instructions for solo stakers to run additional services to scale their earnings 2) Added all client combinations 3) DVTs: Starting with Diva and adding Obol + SSV soon! 4) Bonded Validators (WIP): Rocketpool, Stader, Lido CSM, EtherFi, Puffer 5) Heroglyphs (WIP) 6) Added simplified ETH consensus & validator concepts for non-Web3 readers As with before, this document is optimised for the learning journeys of non-technical people. PS: This is the same guide that was used by Cohort#1 of the DVT Home Staker Program (@ethStaker x @divastaking). More cohorts to come soon! However, content on eth-docker will be added next for readers who are ready to make their lives easier or scale up their operations so stay tuned 📡 Basically, my goal with this "living doc" is to consolidate my cumulative knowledge over time in one place and hopefully help aspiring solo stakers with their own journeys! Unrelated pic: Got this cool looking custom raspberry pi setup from a friend that can be used to store keys and run just the validator client, segregating your keys from the internet.

IMO the next wave of decentralisation of the ETH validator sets will realistically not come from an uprising of solo stakers en masse - but rather, from community builders running their own nodes and providing their members with another option to stake their ETH vs current staking pools. A very good point brought up by @nixorokish recently is that there is still a fixed cost (US$850 for an NUC set) to running validator nodes despite the shift to POS. This means that even though DVTs lower the financial barriers to entry for solo stakers on the ETH capital required, it also increases the payback period significantly - e.g. 5 months for 32 ETH staked vs ~5 years for 1 ETH staked + 31 ETH matched. For small stakers, the economics wouldn't make sense hence they will naturally gravitate towards staking pools, which will always lead to staking pools growing too large for comfort. However, the economics will work really well if solo stakers are able to scale their own TVL - essentially becoming a mini staking pool themselves. So the question is now - Who are the "solo stakers" best positioned to scale their own TVL? Community builders with their own audiences and loyal followings fit the mould perfectly. They can even run a "stake-to-subscribe" model, offering premium access/content/services for their own stakers instead of charging subscription fees. @stakewise_io V3 (launching very soon) enables this model really well and it's something I have been super excited about. DMs are open if any community builders want to get up to speed!

Really enjoyed my discussion with @VitalikButerin at the very first Home Staking Summit! The why’s & how’s behind the push for empowering solo stakers were insightful & important to us. Thank you again for spending time with this community during the busiest week of the year🙏🏼

The golden age of solo stakers is here. I talked about the roadmap for solo stakers previously and this is Step 2 - Apply for hardware grants in action. The next step is to make use of this grant to start accumulating on-chain creds by running a DVT-enabled node with minimal ETH. It's not just talk - ETH aligned organisations are putting their money and muscle where their mouths are to cultivate new entrants to this ecosystem! Applications open this Friday, 15th Dec, and closes on 19th (Tues). Non-technical people are also welcome to apply!

For solo stakers, checking for eligibility of airdrops by signing arbitrary messages with our withdrawal addresses is super scary cos that's where all our ETH goes. Not to mention the phishing army that floods our timelines. Fortunately, there's a way to minimise your exposure and here's how I do it. 1/ First, connect a burner wallet to the airdrop site to check for it's eligibility. Obviously there won't be any but this allows you to check for suspicious token approvals in the next step. 2/ Go to @etherscan's token approvals service on their website, connect the burner wallet, and check for any weird token approvals 3/ Connect your actual withdrawal address to check for eligibility once (2) is verified Disclaimer: Etherscan's token approval service is still in Beta mode, so this method is not bulletproof. Ideally, projects that airdrop to solo stakers should allow the checking/claiming of airdrops using separate addresses assignable by solo stakers as recommended in this doc by @ethStaker - ethstaker.cc/airdrops

Solo staking is not just about the economics. It's about making new friends, improving, and exploring new opportunities together! This is why I started running in-person workshops again with time for participants to unwind & interact among themselves after. This model seems unscalable on the surface but I believe will pay off in the long term. My next stop will be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to establish the local solo staking community during ETH KL 2024 next weekend, 4th - 6th October. Organised by @ETHKL1 , @EquitiesTracker, & myself, there will be 2 hands-on workshops covering solo staking + DVTs and a networking mixer for all participants. (No prior technical background needed!) Participants who attend both workshop sessions will get free tickets to ETH KL 2024 (worth $105 each), limited to the first 40. Thanks @lonebozo for the perks! If sustainable incentives in exchange for honest work are your cup of tea, you won’t want to miss this out 👨🏻‍🌾👨‍🏭👷🏼‍♀️🧑‍🚒 Together with new and old friends, go from zero-to-one on becoming DVT-empowered solo stakers and enjoy the boosted staking rewards plus additional monetisation opportunities that come with it! Sign-up at the Linktree in my bio (limited to first 40 pax): - Workshop 1: @LidoFinance CSM 2.4 ETH validators - Workshop 2: @Obol_Collective & @ssv_network DVTs - Networking mixer *Refreshments provided for both workshops!

This knowledge graph generator basically gives you superpowers to sound smart walking into a meeting/event on short notice. But the possibilities doesn't end with just academic-type learning - because what other types of highly valuable information are best visualised as graphs? (1) Supply/value chains of a new industry you are researching into (2) Business models of companies you want to learn from (3) Breakdown of specific processes for your business - e.g. how to perform SEO keyword research (4) Company structure and org. charts (5) Discovering relationships between 2 seemingly unrelated concepts Want this superpower created by @yoheinakajima? Sign up for the waitlist here - instagraph.ai/ Or if you can't wait, here's a step-by-step guide to deploy your own Instagraph instance on a low-cost cloud VM in 15 minutes (free with Google Cloud credits) - stakesaurus.gitbook.io/the-l…

Announcing the first batch of speakers for the Home Staking Summit happening on 16th September 2024 in Singapore at @ArtSciMuseum! Huge thanks to the sponsors and kudos to @ethereum_sg for making "Home Staking Exciting Again" 😎 Limited tix left: lu.ma/7dcteb21 1/6

We hit our very first 32 ETH <24 hours from launch! I mean, 5 of them were my own, but still, it's a testament to the viability of this model for solo stakers! To my fellow Ethereans - It's never a better time to pick up this skill 🔧 Check out the vault yourselves👇

Solo staking cannot replace your full-time job but it’s one of those skills that offers asymmetrical upside vs effort required. 1) it's relatively low effort once you learn how to set things up for a nice side income—e.g., 30 minutes a month maintenance without being highly technical 2) it continuously unlocks new opportunities, both directly and indirectly - Directly = new incentives for solo stakers. E.g., enhanced rewards via bonded validators such as @LidoFinance CSM, points/incentives & delegation via DVTs, airdrops, etc - Indirectly = Foot in the door for new Web3 roles and access to grants for community and product builders For example, the Lido Community Lifeguards Initiative facilitates quarterly grants to help grow solo staking via the CSM. Further, the existence and success (hopefully!) of the Lido Community Lifeguards Initiative should inspire similar opportunities to emerge for the solo staking community. Some similar initiatives with varying incentive structures: SSV Divers/Associates, Obol Masters In a way, being a solo staker is like owning an NFT. But the ticker is ETH 😎

Aaand its alive! 🧟

Beyond full house for Justin Drake’s announcement of “Beam Chain”. The crowd continues to overfill outside of the hall. And VC-coiners think Ethereum is dead 🤡

Woke up today to kick things off by depositing 5 of my own ETH and realised that we actually received our first 5 ETH staked into our vault overnight! It may not seem like much but it’s a zero-to-one moment of how solo stakers can acquire their own TVL! Really thankful for the support 🙏 Now, more on how this vault works so that you have all the necessary information to make your decision — 1) First of all, just like all other LSDs, - e.g. Lido, Rocketpool, Stader, etc - there will be a queue to consolidate batches of 32 ETH and a waiting period before validator keys can go live on the beacon chain. 2) As a new player, this process will not be as quick as large staking pools so we appreciate your patience on this! 3) However, we completely understand if you want to start earning yields asap — In which case you will be able to un-stake anytime 4) Staked ETH will auto-compound within the vault and made productive every time the balance reaches the next multiple of 32 5) Once the first validator key goes live, stakers will be able to mint osETH from the vault at a 0.9:1 over-collaterisation ratio. osETH can then be used across DeFi to boost your yields - e.g. LPs, borrow/lend etc

I’ve been appointed as a Community Lifeguard to champion solo stakers participating in @LidoFinance's permissionless staking initiatives — e.g. CSM My mission? To empower solo stakers in Southeast Asia, harnessing node operations as a skillset to uplift the less privileged. As an independent contributor, my initiatives aim to boost solo staker participation on Ethereum, currently at 6.5%, as a key strategy against centralization risks. Tune in tonight (10pm SGT/UTC+8) to learn more about my plans for SEA and how you can be involved!

We are witnessing the birth of a new profession. Solo stakers will expand beyond hobbyists and new opportunities will continue to emerge going into 2025. It’s great to see all of the homies being involved and I hope more from Asia will take up the reins in the next cohort 😎 @davidpius10 @hanni_abu @Stake_Cat @at0micwhale ChuyGarcia.eth

- 30-day performance: Pre-Alan fork on SSV - 1-day performance: Post-Alan fork Visibly lower CPU usage on my Intel NUC i5 running 60 validator key shares. Client combinations: @nethermind EL + @ethnimbus CL + @ssv_network DVT

The first @LidoFinance CSM rewards were distributed last night and the actual APR is indeed 7 - 8%. APR = 0.0176 / (2.8074 - 0.0074) = ~7.54% Gotta find time this weekend to exit my defi positions and ramp-up to all 12 keys here for a sweet ~$360 per month.

Last night's session marked the 1st anniversary of the Whitepaper Reading Club and saw the largest turnout with 36 participants! (out of 41 sign-ups 😎) All organic! No incentives, no shills, everyone from all walks of life just here to have a good time geeking out! 0/7

Super stoked to receive validation by the founder of the Teku client himself🤯 Choose minority clients if you are an aspiring solo-staker - I promise it's not any harder!

Hosted the first in-person Community Staking Roundtable at Lido Connect this year. We have been hosting these bi-weekly on the @LidoFinance discord as a platform for open discussion around the latest developments in the ETH staking space. DM if you wanna join the next one!

Time to create a ton of new solo stakers with Lido CSM. The goal is 5000 independent node operators. Witness us. @entigdd @Stake_Cat @GLCstaked @d_gusakov @sasha_gusakova @KimonSh @SatBalwynnorth @IsdrsP

Super excited to announce the launch of Stakesaurus’ very own liquid staking pool using Stakewise V3! IMO this marks the beginning of the "stake-to-subscribe" model on ETH. 1/ Say whaaat? Read on to find out🔽

371 bookmarks to-date on my last post 🙏It's heartening to see so many Ethereans keen to learn how to run their own nodes. In that case, I'm gonna do yall one better. Use this guide to practice setting up on the testnet for free using @googlecloud - stakesaurus.gitbook.io/stake… It's basically what I use when I teach aspiring node operators during my workshops. Why do we practice? Running an ETH validator node is a high stakes operation. Unfamiliarity with the node operations process can lead to anxiety and knee-jerk reactions when the variables in your environment change even slightly - which in turn can lead to an increased risk of getting slashed. This is why you need to get your practice hours in to build your confidence before going live on mainnet. A free way to practice Fortunately for us, we can practice for free using Google Cloud Platform without needing to invest in physical hardware and only make the purchase when we feel ready. New GCP users will enjoy $300 of credits - enough to let us practice for at least 3 months. Even if you have used up all your GCP credits, you can still spin up a virtual machine at an hourly rate of only $0.20. This means you can simply stop your virtual machine once you are done practicing for the day - still a super cheap method compared to buying dedicated node hardware!

Having a backup power supply is super underrated for your home validator. The crazy storm in SG's east side just tripped my power briefly & I would've had to spend 1 - 2 days re-syncing if my main node shut off abruptly. S$87 to prevent downtime and potential hardware failure!

Wanna start your ETH solo staking journey and get a headstart on the opportunities to come in 2025? Get small group and even 1-1 guidance from @ethstaker veterans and reps from all major staking prototcols during Devcon at the Home Operator Hub!

Shilling solo staking once again. IMO it’s one of the best ways to participate in Web3 economies in 2025. The general logic is simple—do more work, get more rewards. The other way to increase rewards is to take on more risk. Good to have both in your arsenal 🔫

Coinbase announced a non-custodial ETH staking product last week but the choice of infra is concerning from a concentration risk POV AWS & GCP being used exclusively Only majority clients used: Prysm (44%), Lighthouse (34%), Geth (58%) Let's explore these 2 concerns 🔽

Congrats to @GnosisDAO on your brand refresh! Everyone talks about how killer consumer apps will win this meta but sleeps on this ecosystem that has continued to ship through bulls and bears. And what I like most is how we can share/combine our solo staking talent & infra :)

We are hosting a cozy online info session with, @micho, co-founder of @divastaking, on 10th Jan, at 9pm SGT for the Stakesaurus community and opening it up to anyone who's keen. Feel free to join us if you are thinking about becoming an ETH solo staker in 2024! Details: Diva Staking's DVT solution enables solo stakers to spin up an ETH validator node with just 1 ETH. Curious about how what this means for you economically and how you can get started? Join us for a casual chat where we talk about the exciting opportunities Diva has in store for both new and existing solo stakers! The floor will also be open to questions from attendees towards the end of the session. Register your interest using the form below and we look forward to having you on! lu.ma/anq4ctdc

Congrats to shortlisted applicants on receiving the hardware grants! 🤖 I was instantly sold when @nixorokish approached me about this initiative because I see an opportunity to start a movement to cultivate new solo stakers globally. Find out more about the DVT Home Staker Program plus plans for future cohorts in this upcoming space!

Manila & Cebu 🇵🇭 >> Tokyo 🇯🇵 >> Taipei 🇹🇼 >> Seoul 🇰🇷 >> Singapore 🇸🇬 >> KL 🇲🇾 >> Shanghai 🇨🇳 Local solo staking communities established (+ to-be) in 2024 across Asia.

Honoured to be nominated as a Staking Master and featured by Obol @squadstaking ! Excited to explore the solo staking landscape together with new solo stakers in 2025 and continue creating beginner-friendly resources for you guys.

Bulbasaur waiting to join the #CSMTESTNET Solo stakers can run @LidoFinance CSM validators using their existing setup. No external services required on your machine. This is part of Step 3 of the solo staker’s roadmap to scaling up:

Thank you for hosting our bi-weekly debate last night @aelfblockchain ! It was pretty poetic to revisit the original BTC whitepaper on BTC’s 15th birthday to debate both practical and philosophical trade offs of PoW vs PoS. I like how both sides learn something new every time we have this debate. Healthy discourse that sets aside personal egos and agenda is the way to bring people together. There’s no point in tribalism because facts don’t care about anyone’s feelings (or bags 🙄). If there are weaknesses in a system’s design, the most important step is to first be aware of it, understand it, and then have a plan to deal with it. Because of the diverse mix of folks, these sessions force everyone to slow down, ask the simple but hard questions, and make arguments based on first principles. DM to join us if you are based in SG and this is your kinda jam!

CSM Mainnet guides coming this week! Easy to follow steps with a variety of minimal-code options to choose from so its gonna be a breeze even if you have not touched your node for a year

Did a super fun podcast with @blockhead_co to talk about why we are now in the Golden Age of Solo Stakers! 1) Financial and technical barriers to entry continue to decrease - - Get started with as little as 1 ETH or even 0 ETH - Hardware grants to offset your fixed costs - Unprecedented level of community support and quality of documentation/guides 2) Abundant opportunities to work with LST projects - - What are some initiatives you can participate in today - Building your reputation - How you can use a single piece of hardware (US$800) to run multiple LST clients - Scaling your own TVL 3) The Solo-Staker's Roadmap - Putting it all together in a play-by-play

There is only 1 ETH node running in the Philippines (PH) according to ethernodes.org Let's change that. Will be sharing the stage with the guys from GCash, Pendle, & @BayaniChain on growing home stakers in the PH! PS: There is likely >1 but <many nodes in the PH

Kudos to the Stader team for the patient guided process. Got a non technical friend to spin up a Stader testnet node from scratch and he did it in 1.5hrs Highly encourage anyone who wants to get your feet wet on node operations to try this out while the guided onboarding is on

One of my favourite shills about learning how to solo stake on ETH are the strong economies of scope involved. i.e., learn 1 skill -> capture many opportunities. Today, let me show and not just tell. @stakewise_io launches on @gnosischain so ETH solo stakers can now reapply our craft to scale our earnings from another ecosystem. This is because we can now allow GNO holders to liquid stake with our staking hardware. Running a Gnosis validator as an ETH solo staker is trivial as both use the same clients. All you need to do is change the --network flag in your configurations. On top of that, some staking hardware such as @dappnode are even powerful enough for you to run both chains in one machine! I just started syncing my Gnosis node so my vault will be ready in 2 days. Check it out below in the meantime! app.stakewise.io/vault/gnosi…

Kicked off the first of 3 workshops for the Home Staking Summit at the @ArtSciMuseum with a whopping turnout of almost 50 pax! And this is during prime time Friday night with half of SG Web3 still in Korea for KBW. Now who tf says $ETH is dead.

Liquid stakers: Get boosted incentives while supporting solo stakers even if solo staking itself is not for you due to constraints 😎 Potential solo stakers: New incentive programmes encouraging solo staking are popping up one after another. Start learning today!

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Solo stakers are increasingly getting recognised for their effort. @nektarnetwork (Diva), @Starknet, & now @OmniFDN. IMO it’s a trend that will continue. Why? Because solo stakers are a high quality set of users that projects should love to have on board. Sure, some will sell all of the airdrops on day 1 to catch up on the yield they’ve been lagging behind on vs liquid staking, but overall we are a patient and adventurous bunch — both characteristics you’d want from early adopters.

Huge congrats to SSV and all Simple DVT node operators making it to mainnet this round! Stakesaurus signing in with Nethermind and Nimbus running on a home staking setup 😎 ✅Another milestone for solo stakers to scale our earnings

It's a proud moment seeing actual new home stakers being minted from cohort #1 of the DVT Home Staker Program. Thank you for putting in the effort and it's been a pleasure witnessing your progress @0xBeja 🦾

Recorded a speedrun setting up an Ethereum testnet validator from scratch using Google Cloud credits + ETHPillar + Lido CSM. 10 mins, no hardware, no code. Check it out and follow along here: piped.video/watch?v=aZLPACj2… Want Mainnet EA benefits? This is as easy as it gets.

2024 is the time to up your game from liquid staker to solo staker. Kick start your journey by applying for the hardware grant by ETHStaker!

I Sam (Stakesaurus) agree to the rules outlined in the Operating Rules of the Simple DVT Module for @LidoFinance x @Obol_Collective Node Operators in the Lido x Obol: Dynamic Dragonfly cluster as seen by my verified signature: etherscan.io/verifySig/25889…

Running nodes can be dry and its easy to feel FOMO when the rest of Web3 moves so quickly. One way I try to keep up is via the @whitepaperRC, where we take our time to unravel and debate how stuff actually work. Our 1st published discussion on ZK here - bit.ly/3SiUlH9

More perks from winning the @googlecloud x @StackUpHQ bounty on running cloud-based nodes! And just when i needed a new backpack because mine is starting to wear out 🙏🏼 You appreciate the little things when you are trying to be a self-sustaining solo-preneur

Establishing the Japanese solo staking community during @EDCON2024 with @nxt_fintech! Look forward to supporting you guys in growing the talent pool here 🦾 Huge thanks to @LidoGrants and @ssv_network for supporting this initiative 🙏🏼

Quick update: @pradavc, the co-founder and tech lead of @divastaking, will be joining us for this info session instead. See you guys on 10th Jan, 9pm GMT+8 (SGT)!

Encountered some hiccups with our remote signer as our first validator went online but we are back up! Of course things gonna break during production amirite 🙄 Missed a couple of attestations with a total cost of $0.30 oof

It's an honour to play a part 🫡

No hardware nor skills to join #CSMTESTNET? I got you fam. Use Google Cloud credits for 2 months of free hardware. Use ETHPillar to launch and manage validators effortlessly. Combine both to boost Early Adoption chances on Mainnet 😎

3/6 Speaker: Brett Li @composeus, CGO of DV Labs, the founding development team of the @Obol_Collective Talk: The Impact of Community Squad Staking on Ethereum & around the World Panel: How Obol empowers ETH Communities via Squad Staking Communities should run DVs!

Wanna see just how easy it is to spin up your own @gnosischain liquid staking vault and scale your solo staker earnings by accepting delegated TVL from your own communities? Thanks for inviting me ser @dirtynodes

Solo stakers are not just early buyers of ETH. We pick up bargains when gamblers are forced to sell. With every dip, more ETH moves from speculators to contributors of economic security.

Simple DVT was designed to involve solo stakers and the hands-on experience with DVTs you can get from participating in these trials is highly transferrable to other similar initiatives (or using Obol and SSV directly!)

Thank you for supporting the Home Staking Summit @puffer_finance 🦾 I believe that creating new solo stakers is an industry-wide effort and we need to establish a fun learning culture around it. This is a super strong cohort & i’m looking forward to witnessing their journeys!

Announcing our next batch of speakers for the Home Staking Summit! Catch the full agenda & line-up here: lu.ma/7dcteb21 1/8

Thanks for having me @nxt_fintech and I look forward to developing the home staking talent pool in Japan with you guys 🦾

IMO this is a win-win-win for Lido, solo stakers, and DVT providers. Lido Decentralisation will be the most valuable currency for the upcoming institutional demand for staked ETH–i.e., ETH ETF issuers. (Even though staking is restricted for ETF issuers under the current approval, we can reasonably expect that these institutions will find a way around it eventually.) Expanding the SDVT Module will allow Lido to attract the best solo & community node operators in the space, greatly increasing the decentralisation of the node operator set while remaining uncompromising on security and performance. Solo stakers Putting aside the obvious benefit to solo stakers, this proposal signals to the industry that being a solo staker can be more than just a hobby, which will significantly expand the talent pool of node operators. Current, aspiring, and even non-solo stakers will view ETH node operations as a skill set worth investing their time in. DVT Providers DVTs are critical infrastructure of ETH staking that make the ETH block space more valuable. Expanding the Simple DVT Module can be seen as a sustainable way of funding these public goods. Further, DVT providers also directly benefit from an expansion of the solo staker talent pool.

To everyone who’s still around — The ridiculous margins of the current world is our opportunity. Look around and you will notice many more avenues of borderline gouging today. Aside from simply “cos I can”, the main reason for this behaviour is that payment providers need to underwrite settlement risk. This is where web3 rails excel in. By making the settlement layer more efficient and trust-less, we reduce the risk of non-settlement, which in turn reduces the cost of provisioning for such risks.

Solo staking takes off in Japan 🇯🇵!

Really appreciate you joining us at the Home Staking Summit with @ethereum_sg last week 🙏🏼 Hope you enjoyed the fireside chat and the recap!

Nimbus is my recent favourite CL due to how lightweight it is. Tune in to hear my experience using Nimbus as a solo staker, how you can practice for free using cloud credits, & stretch your practice time because of the minimal system requirements made possible with Nimbus!

gm solo stakers! It's day 2 of my liquid staking vault going live and today I'm sharing an overview of a possible setup for solo stakers! 1) The EL + CL clients and the Stakewise operator service run on one 32GB RAM + 2TB SSD device 2) Run the validator client and signer on a low spec device remotely - e.g. 8GB raspberry pi or cloud service 3) The Stakewise service splits all validator keys into 11 key shares and distributed to oracles so that users can deposit & withdraw their ETH independent of the vault operator. Store these key shares in a remote HSM using Web3signer. An 8GB raspberry pi or cloud service works here too 4) [2 & 3] because we don't want the Stakewise operator service to have access to validator keys directly in the event it goes rogue 5) Set up a VPN (e.g. Tailscale) and get a few solo staker friends to put their beacon nodes on it 6) Point [3] to the beacon nodes on the VPN as failover nodes. 7) When @ssv_network becomes available to everyone, your solo staker friends can become SSV operators where you can then shard your keys for signing duties. This greatly increases slashing protection for your vault. This step will then replace [2 & 6]. 8) It should be prudent enough to run 100 - 200 keys or 3200 - 6400 ETH using this setup before exploring ways to scale up further 9) IMPORTANT: Follow security best practices for all devices and services used - e.g. strong passwords, ssh keys, firewalls, brute force protection, automatic updates, clean user permissions, checksum verifications

Standing by to spin up my Mainnet CSM validator using ETHPillar @coincashew_ and activate my validator keys live during the stream tonight!

Would love to invite all @ethStaker members who will be in town during Token2049 week to attend for free! @nixorokish Learn more about our motivations and aspirations for the Home Staking Summit matters in this article: linkedin.com/pulse/ethereum-…

5/6 Speaker: Dmirty Gusakov @d_gusakov, Tech Lead at @LidoFinance and the brains behind the Community Staking Module Talk: How Lido CSM can create net new solo stakers for Ethereum Find out how CSM can increase solo staker numbers at the rate of the network growth!

Going to #KBW2024? Come watch me make solo stakers out of peeps who've never touched the command line before in their lives within 30 minutes. Or watch me fail miserably for being too ambitious. Either way, it's gonna be entertaining so come check it out :D

6/6 Speaker: Will Shannon @KimonSh, Head of Strategic Initiatives Panel: How can Lido help keep Ethereum decentralized via DVTs? Get first hand insights from the man coordinating Lido's Simple DVT Programme!

Points farmers. Y'all gonna love this. How 5.5x more points? Simply put, it's because there are way more ETH being put to work accumulating Obol points in the Lido Simple DVT Module than what's being staked in the Decentralised Validator Vault today 😎

This is your chance to make the economics of solo staking make even more sense guys. It’s not just hardware. It’s your gateway into the many opportunities available in the ETH validator space. Because you can run multiple staking setups on one hardware.

New tool in the box for solo stakers! Previously we could only (easily) point the validator client to multiple consensus clients as fallbacks sequentially. Now we can link 1 VC : multiple CLs at the same time = better slashing protection + better node operator rewards

Me talking to girls after joining #CSMTESTNET

KBW? Nah, KBBQW.

Bringing back the true crypto conference during Token2049 with @WPReadingClub Brain is fried after delving into Voting bloc entropy, Dark DAOs, Plonky3, Miden, & Agglayer. Feel like l earned my wine for the week. Many thanks to the contributors for the succinct summaries 🙏🏼

This is @jirols_btc, Cams, & the team of @bitskwela, a Philippines-based Web3 education platform that grew to almost 50k on TikTok, 20k on Twitter, and 12k on Facebook (the 3 leading social channels Filipinos use) over 2 years. Completely bootstrapped with $0 raised.

2/6 Our first speaker needs no introduction. But what you may not know is that @VitalikButerin is an avid proponent of solo staking and has written at length on how to increase this talent pool-e.g. Orbit SSF, Rainbow Staking Let's unpack these ideas during the closing panel!

Thank you for pioneering this movement!

Was a truly amazing time watching @kiriyha1 @JstarCS & @tsudmi execute this project from testnet>>alpha>>live🦾 Particularly excited about how this enables solo stakers to scale their income as long as they are willing to put in the work! Congrats on going live!

4/6 Speaker: Kong Yu Ning @cryptokyn69, Head of Growth of @puffer_finance Talk: Based Rollup: Why the future of Ethereum is so bright we need sunglasses 😎 Panel: What re-staking and pre-confirmations means for ETH and solo stakers Think ETH cannot scale? Time to think again.

If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together There is much room for collaboration between ETH projects and local communities on home staking education. Excited to support the first 2 nominees under this initiative! Who's keen to take the stage next?

What defines a “criminal”? Yesterday it was ISIS, today it’s @durov, tmr it could be you and I if we wake up to a facist regime. This is why it’s important to acquire the skills to support open permissionless systems—the skills to fight back. Learn how to run blockchain nodes.

Time for the Gnosis ecosystem to shine!

Solo stakers can replicate the distributed redundancy part of DVT themselves today with a bit of devops tinkering. 1/ First, put your keystores on a raspberry pi and run a remote signer on it - Web3signer @Consensys or Vouch @AttestantIO. Remove your keystores from your validator node after. 2/ Next, put your validator node set on a @Tailscale VPN (free) 3/ Get some friends who are also solo stakers to do the same and put everyone on the same Tailscale VPN. Ideally you want everyone to be running different EL + CL sets 4/ Everyone will point their validator client to their own and everyone else's beacon node endpoint. This way, if anyone's EL or CL client goes down, they will automatically fallback to any remaining beacon node - No one will go offline as long as one beacon node is active! 5/ Or you can make some new solo staker friends :) This might sound scary but because your signing keystores are now segregated from your validator node, any damage doable to it will be minimal - assuming you have your basic security practices covered Total cost = less than S$150

Congrats to the Obol clusters that made it to the mainnet! This is a chance for solo stakers to (i) increase our rewards and (ii) take our skills to the next level by learning how to create, configure, and coordinate DVT clusters via a guided approach 🧵

"The Philippines is well positioned to export home stakers as the next BPO" This was one of my favourite discussion points during a stacked panel in Manila over the weekend with: Head of Crypto @ GCash (PH e-wallet with 70% market penetration): @helloluis Growth @ Pendle: @Rightsideonly Advisor @ Router Protocol: @9001sabella Philippines Blockchain Council: @heypaulroots Moderated the exploration of ETH staking for a Filipino audience as a Lido Community Lifeguard. Thanks @bitskwela for putting this together and @LidoGrants for supporting the event. Always an enjoyable time debating ideas with great minds.

Solo staking is a lonely journey. It's a key friction point because humans are social creatures at the end of the day. Having more teachers means we can form smaller but more engaged "study groups." Motivation and retention will be higher because it is simply more fun too!

Realised that missed attestation alerts via beaconcha.in are less useful when running DVTs so I created a Telegram chatbot with simple client-level downtime alerts for myself. Any solo stakers keen on a fun weekend project? :) - github.com/samuelclk/ETH-nod…

8/8 “The Impact of Community Squad Staking on Ethereum & around the World” by @StakeETH , founder of DV Labs (@Obol_Collective) Catch not just 1, but 2 C-suites from Obol during the Home Staking Summit! 🌳

I Sam | Stakesaurus agree to the rules outlined in the Operating Rules of the Simple DVT Module for @LidoFinance x @SSV_network Node Operators in the Flirtatious Flamingo cluster as seen by my verified signature: etherscan.io/verifySig/24627…

Highly encourage all solo/home stakers to take 15 minutes to do this survey. It’s a way to have your voice heard and help shape the upcoming ETH proposals (EIPs) 🏛️

If you are a SEA community builder, drop by the Truc Bach Lake stage at ETH Vietnam, 17th March (Sunday) 10am VNT, to find out how to incorporate home/solo staking activities for your communities and the grants available for doing so!