Rhino Review Ethereum Staking Journal #21

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Latest Updates for Stakers

• The application for the DVT Home Staker Program closes next Friday, 19 Jan

• Gas Limit Discussions

  • Why increasing the gas limit is difficult?

  • What problem does increasing the gas limit solve?

  • I am for increasing the gas limit, but we need to be more careful.

  • Modest increase is reasonable

  • It is absolutely a tradeoff

  • I am for a 50% block gas limit increase!

• Properties of issuance level (part 1)

• Kipu Stakers about to give birth to a DVT cluster with EthKipu, nodes in Argentina, Costa Rica, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic using DAppNode and ObolNetwork.

• Heuristics for Detecting Censorship

• DVStakers spent time in a small village in Kenya near Kilimanjaro setting up Ethereum full nodes, validators, and DVT validators.

• On January 6th, many Besu Mainnet nodes experienced a halt. Postmortem here

• Big upgrade for http://ethernets.io with a new database, and much better system for identifying live nodes.

• [AMA] We are EF Research (Pt. 11: 10 January, 2024) and the top five topics covered

• Analyzing Missed Slot Through The Lens of Relays – A potential path for relay incentivization

• Ethereum Timing Dashboard

• Quantifying the damage a supermajority client can cause

• Gnosis Chain Validator Year in Review

• Validator Timing Game Post EIP4844

• Optimizing Ethereum consensus and execution layer client interactions

• A list of Eigenlayer risks

• State & History growth dashboard in public Reth Grafana

• The New Year Smooth Raffle is now extended until January 19, 2024

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • RFP: Community Staking & Simple DVT Module Integrations

  • Proposal: Using DV clusters for encrypted transaction mempools

  • Charon v0.19.0 has been released to support the upcoming Dencun Hardfork

  • Restaked Obol Distributed Validator Clusters on Ethereum Mainnet are Live

  • How to Run a Validator on SSV.Network

• LST

  • StakeWise’s the January edition of the New Epoch newsletter is out.

  • EtherFi 2023 Recap

  • Swell has surpassed $350M TVL

EthStaker Corner

• Ethereum Client Switcher (switch from Geth in <30 seconds)

• Running 2 validators on one machine with Dappnode

• What would be the ETH price that will make you exit your validator(s)?

• Safest way to solo stake for non technical person

• Is there a way to tell if my MEV setup is working?

• Multiple reports of Besu clients going offline at block 18,947,893

• Now is a good time to check on your staking node disk usage

• Is there a site that compares the yields of all ETH staking options?

• PSA: If your withdrawal address is a Ledger and you don't have its seed phrase, you need to take action ASAP

Job Listing

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023

• Obol Network - Various Jobs

• Stakewise - Marketing Manager

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.1.0

  • Prysm v4.2.0

  • Lodestar v1.14.0-rc.2

  • Nimbus v24.1.1

  • Lighthouse v4.5.0

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.10

  • Nethermind v1.25.0

  • Erigon v2.56.2

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.14

📌 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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