🦏 Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal #7

Diversity makes us all stronger

Greetings from the latest edition of Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal!

In this issue, we have compiled numerous updates, news, and fascinating discussions just for you.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the incredible contributions during the Gitcoin Beta round. With these funds, we aim to produce valuable staking-related content, including newsletters, interviews with remarkable teams, and praise for outstanding contributors.

Stay tuned for exciting developments!

❗️Post too long for email. Click the link to access the entire newsletter.

📌 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

• On May 11th, the beacon chain began experiencing issues reaching finality for 3 epochs. The issue reoccurred on May 12th for 8 epochs. Read Finality issue updates

• Ethereum mainnet experienced its first ever inactivity leak.

• Demystifying Ethereum Staking: How to be a validator with less than 32 ETH

• Meet Ether.Fi Operation Solo Staker Winners

• Stereum 2.0.0-rc.18

• Stake ETH with Confidence: How to Use Safe Smart Accounts for Ethereum Validators

• Restaking & Expanding Ethereum's Ecosystem w/EigenLayer

• The Capella update to Upgrading Ethereum is out.

• Over 2m ETH were sent to be staked this month (ATH) & it's only May 17th

• Gnosis Chain’s Chiado hardfork on 24 May 2023 at 12:12:00 UTC, Epoch: 244224

• Lido withdrawals are live - if you wanted to move your ETH to a more decentralized, more minority protocol, now is the time.

• Visa takes a dive into Ethereum staking and relies on http://beaconcha.in as a trusted source.

• Monitor the Ethereum validator queue

• Read Staking for Beginners blog series

• Add EIP: Execution layer triggerable exits

• Rotki app added staking support

DVT & LST Updates

• DVT

  • Lodestar first client to support aggregation with Obol DVT

  • Diva Testnet Guide

• LST/LSD

  • Proposal to add wstETH and stETH to Synthetix perps.

  • safETH is live.

  • Lido V2 Mainnet Launch

  • Ethereum Liquid Staking Valuation Framework

  • Supply is down 100,000 ETH in 30 days

  • Rocket_Pool with Ledger to stake $ETH for $rETH

  • Swell Network has reached 9,600 ETH beacon chain deposit.

  • Analytics in Ethereum: ether.fi x Ether Capital x Staking Rewards

EthStaker Corner

• How has Staking impacted your life beyond financial gains?

• Should I worry about timeserver diversity?

• Withdrawal address to a Ledger Account

• Call to switch away from Geth

• NUC or Server for ETH Staking at Home? Help me decide!

• UK limited company for solo staking?

• Gas too high on Ethereum? As a validator you can increase the gas limit on locally produced blocks by adding these flags to your execution client

• Which Consensus Client and which Execution Client would you pick if you were starting fresh today and why?

• Downside of using too many relays?

• Geth to Nevermind migration was easy and Nethermind seems more reliable

Job Listing

• Blockchain Core Developer - Erigon Team / Gnosis Chain

• Nethermind Internship Program 2023 . Check more open position

• Validator Relations & DevRel - Obol Network

• Technical Customer Success Manager (CSM) - Obol Network

Statistics & Analytics

Client Updates & Releases

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v23.5

  • Prysm v4.0.4

  • Lodestar v1.8.0

  • Nimbus v23.5.0

  • Lighthouse v4.1 - Uncle Steve

  • Grandine Beta

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.11.6 - Azimir

  • Nethermind v1.19.0-rc

  • Erigon v2.43.0

  • Besu 23.4.0

  • 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 🫠

Ledger had already added something terrible function. Now they are taking it further.

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

THANK YOU!

You can support on Gitcoin, by purchasing this POAP or sending ETH to armagan.eth 🙏

👉 Twitter: 0xarmagan
👉 Hackmd: Armog