Rhino Review Ethereum Staking Journal #23

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

Rhino Review is celebrating its 1st anniversary today! Thanks to your support and interest, this newsletter, which has reached these days, looks to the future with even more bright! As we celebrate our new milestone, I would like to share some exciting news with you. Rhino Review has been granted support from the Ethereum Support Program. The funds will be allocated towards the translation services of the ETHKipu team and strategic partnerships to strengthen the staking ecosystem. Huge hanks to ESP for their collaboration and support!

Find out the Spanish version here. Thanks to the ETHKipu team for the translation!

📌 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

• Dencun Launch Preparations - All client teams have released final software versions for the Dencun upgrade.

• Proposed changes to staking issuance and how it affects solo stakers

• Guide on How to Migrate to a Larger Disk for an Ethereum Validator

• Starknet airdrop is allocating ~20% to ETH stakers

• Rainbow Staking

• State of Light Clients

• Light client roadmap for Electra

• Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum

• ePBS design constraints

• Endgame Staking Economics: A Case for Targeting

• Electra: Issuance Curve Adjustment Proposal

• Why You Should Care About ePBS? Proposer 🤝 Builder

• Bloxroute was relaying invalid rsync blocks in optimistic mode & bloxroute's post-submission verification was failing.

• The Supermajority Risk of Ethereum Explained

• VaNOM: Lido on Ethereum Validator & Node metrics

• Gnosis Chain Cancun-Deneb (Dencun) Hard Fork Announcement

• Client Updates for Gnosis Chain Dencun Hardfork

• Gnosis Beacon Chain Validator Monitor Bot by BootNode team

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Simple DVT release

  • The Lido Finance Simple DVT module has been deployed, and in the coming weeks clusters including over 100 community stakers (solos and small groups) will deploy Distributed Validators on mainnet, powered by Obol Network and SSV Network.

  • Client diversity & DVT - Obol Network, AllNodes, Chainnodes, Cosmostation

  • Team Staking with DappNode , Stake Diva, & Obol Network

  • Ethereum Mexico team starts DVT operation on Holesky

• LST - LRT

  • Proposed changes to staking issuance and how it affects solo stakers

  • Restaking, Staking, Yields and Leverage

  • Diva Staking’s DAO Approves Based ETH (bsdETH) Initiative on Reserve Protocol

  • EigenLayer Restaking Reloaded

EthStaker Corner

• UPS recommendations

• Anyone notice attestation rewards dropping pretty quickly? Like 5% in a month?

• Why we should not trust rated.networks Solo Staker list

• If you're going to ETHDenver - there'll be a validator & node operators event hosted by bloXroute and supported by EthStaker

• Number of Validators to be advantageous vs smoothing

• Is unstaking taxable?

• Borrowing stables and ETH against solo validators

• Time to Upgrade NVMe. Suggestions?

• ethstaker.tax update - Rocket Pool

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 v24.2.0

  • Prysm v5.0.0

  • Lodestar v1.16.0

  • Nimbus v24.2.1

  • Lighthouse v5.0.0

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.13.14

  • Nethermind v1.25.4

  • Erigon v2.58.1

  • Besu 23.10.0

  • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.19

📌 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

Video & Podcast

Events - ETHDenver

• Feb 28, 1:25 pm, The 'State of Staking' Panel: Decentralization, Security, and UX

• Feb 29, 12:55 pm, Squad Staking in 2024: Opportunities for Solo Stakers With DVT, Location: Trident Stage

• Feb 29, 1:00 pm, How Worried Should We Be About Ethereum Client Diversity?

• Feb 29, 1:35 pm, Decentralize Staking for the Future of Ethereum, the Power of DVT

• Mar 1, 12:30 pm, MEV Smoothing Pools: A No Brainer for the Solo Staker and Small LSDs

For more information check out official ETHDenver schedule page

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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