🦏 Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal #8

The main purpose of an Ethereum validator is to secure the Ethereum protocol.

Welcome to the latest edition of Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal! 🦏

Get ready to dive into a treasure trove of updates, news, and captivating discussions tailored exclusively for you.

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📌 Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal supported by EthStaker.
The EthStaker community deserves immense recognition for their unwavering support. Kudos to their dedication and collaborative spirit! 💫

Latest Updates for Stakers

• Attention: The Lido Situation

• Call to action: Node operators should diversify their execution clients away from a majority Geth setup

• Must Read: Solo Stakers: The backbone of Ethereum

• Upgrading Ethereum, Capella edition in numbers, Deposits and Withdrawals and Merkle Tree by Ben Edgington

• Rocket Pool package on Dappnode

• Gnosis Chiado Shapella has been activated

• New eth-wizard release: v0.9.7

• Changes in the aggregation scheme in Prysm

• Don't overload Ethereum's consensus

• Ethereum's Limit on daily activation/exit has increased from 8 -> 9 per Epoch Thanks to the increase in of Active Validators

• Beaconcha.in staking services page

• validatorqueue.com, a dashboard shows the entry/exit queue, wait times, total active validators, and historical values.

• Ethereum's Finality Challenge: A Retrospective on the Beacon Chain's Vitality

• Verkle Tree Update: Elephant has landed!

• 18% of the ETH supply is currently staked

• Finding your best way to stake There are so many options to stake - which do I choose?

• Merging Erigon 3 and Erigon 4, and possibly Caplin

• Ethereum validator & builder interaction for Deneb

• The economics of Ethereum staking in Latam: building the system

• gnosischa.in is live. An open-source explorer for the execution and consensus layer of Gnosis Chain, made by beaconcha.in.

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Looking Forward: Obol V2

  • Future of Solo Staking. - Obol Twitter Spaces

  • Diva Labs: Wrapping is now live

  • Ether.Fi Staker Guide

• LST/LSD

  • Prisma Finance is live. A non-custodial and decentralized Ethereum LST-backed stablecoin.

  • $rETH bridging is now supported on Ethereum, Optimism, and Arbitrum

  • The Swell Voyage is live. 50M $SWELL tokens (5%) are allocated to the Voyage

  • TAI is live, The LSD-native lending protocol launches on Ethereum with rewards

  • LST (or LSD) journal by Mitidotai

EthStaker Corner

• Insane luck? My luck continues (super funny :d)

• Monthly Income as Eth Validator?

• Why does LIDO dominate the liquid staking market despite Rocketpool being the only one to actually satisfy all important properties?

• Feedback please - tool overview

• About to begin my journey to solo stake

• 30 day queue for validator activation?!

• If you already have your withdrawal address on your ledger what will you do?

Job Listing

• Blockchain Core Developer - Erigon Team / Gnosis Chain

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023 . Check more open position

• Software Engineer - Rocket Pool

• Validator Relations & DevRel - Obol Network

• Technical Customer Success Manager (CSM) - Obol Network

Statistics & Analytic

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.5

  • Prysm v4.0.5

  • Lodestar v1.9.0-rc.0

  • Nimbus v23.5.1

  • Lighthouse v4.2.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth Krogam DMZ v1.12.0

  • Nethermind v1.19.0-rc

  • Erigon v2.43.0

  • Besu 23.4.1

  • Reth - Pre-Alpha

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

🚨Check 👉 Client Diversity🚨

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

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

👉Ethereum Execution Client Diversity

Podcast, Meetup & Call

The Drama of The Week 🫠

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

Awesome Resources

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• 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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