Rhino Review Ethereum Staking Journal #22

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• Sepolia has been succesfully upgraded to Deneb

• The Dencun upgrade is live on Chiado

• Nethermind stopped being able to process blocks

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

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

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

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

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

• Allnodes has fully transitioned to Besu

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

• Prysm: Electra Upgrade

• Lodestar Proposals for next Electra/Prague Fork

• Validator consolidation in EIP-7251

• Sigp Lighthouse team: Pectra views

• Validator Staking on MetaMask Portfolio

• Should we increase Ethereum's block gas limit?

• Smoothly Protocol Goes Live

• Coincashew: New guides for Switching Execution Clients Available

• List of solo stakers by Rated

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

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

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

• Testing path for a gas limit increase

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

• Stereum Ethereum Node Setup & Manager 2.0.3

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • DVT Research and Standardization effort from the Nimbus team

  • Obol Network Charon v0.19.0 Update

  • Ethereum Node Operator EL Diversity Improvement Commitments

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

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

  • Over 100,000 ETH is now staked with SSV

• LST

  • Swell introduced rswETH

  • EtherFi deVamp Campaign

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

  • Launching the Turbo divETH Vault by Diva Staking

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

  • The Liquid Staking Landscape

EthStaker Corner

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

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

• Staking withuot typing my passphrase in the browser

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

• Solo staker earning less than LSD?

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

• Decreasing the penalty in case of a supermajority bug

• What’s keeping you on Geth?

• Exit until geth isnt the supermajority anymore?

• Nethermind is DOWN - do not upgrade version

• Solo staking expectations with 32 ETH

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2024

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Consensys Staking - Staff Software Engineer

• Consensys Staking - Software Engineer

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.1.1

  • Prysm v4.2.1

  • Lodestar v1.15.1-rc.0

  • Nimbus v24.1.2

  • Lighthouse v4.6.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.11

  • Nethermind v1.25.3

  • Erigon v2.57.2

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.16

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

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Video & Podcast

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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