A year ago, Bitcoin Suisse deployed its first Obol... Distributed Validator on Ethereum mainnet. Today, that groundwork becomes the new institutional standard. Under a new multi-year agreement, they're migrating 100% of their ETH staking infrastructure to Obol DVs. No legacy validator technology will remain ⬇️🧵show more

A new way to stake ETH is now live... in Ledger Live. We’ve integrated P2P.org, giving you the option to stake Ethereum with a trusted validator directly via Ledger Live. Secure. Seamless. Validator-grade staking. Available for users staking 32 ETH or more, while keeping full control of their assets. Start staking now →show more

Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network is now using Obol to... stake in collaboration with Solstice Staking and Bitcoin Suisse Sovereign-approved, institutional-grade operators are joining the staking end game.show more

🖥️ Running an Ethereum validator just got SIMPLE! Launchnodes'... Staking UI - a powerful new tool that simplifies Ethereum solo staking. Deploy and manage validators in a few clicks and stake ETH with zero friction. Start here:show more

mETH becomes the first liquid staking token held by... a public company treasury Republic Technologies Republic Technologies, the Ethereum treasury of Beyond Medical Technologies Inc, has allocated a significant portion of its ETH into mETH A first for institutional capital on Ethereumshow more

1/ $OBOL is now available for Trading & Staking... 🚀 After nearly 5 years of building, Obol Distributed Validators now secure $1B+ across Lido, EtherFi, and other leading protocols and institutions in Ethereum. ...and we are just getting started!show more

Bectra is live on Berachain mainnet. Smart accounts. On-demand... validator exits. Simplified validator ops. Berachain is now the first L1 after Ethereum to activate the full Pectra execution-layer upgrade set.show more

🚨ETHEREUM EIP-8222 “LEAN STAKING” PROPOSAL COULD BOOST INSTITUTIONAL PRIVACY... BUT RAISES COSTS! EIP-8222 introduces a native privacy layer for Ethereum staking by decoupling execution-layer deposit addresses from consensus-layer validator keys using zkSNARKs and pending deposit trees. This would make validator activity significantly harder to trace on-chain, addressing a major concern for institutions worried about de-anonymization risks. Sygnum warns the added complexity could increase operational costs and create new compliance burdens for institutional stakers.show more

Shibarium runs on BONE, but the staking that secures... it lives on Ethereum ethereum:0x9813037ee2218799597d83d4a5b6f3b6778218d9 pays gas on Shibarium, yet the staking that secures the chain does not happen on Shibarium at all. Validators and delegators lock BONE in contracts sitting on Ethereum mainnet, per Shib's documentation. The design is modeled on Polygon's proof-of-stake architecture. A validator layer called Heimdall bundles periodic snapshots of Shibarium's state, called checkpoints, and submits them to Ethereum. A separate layer, Bor, produces the blocks and executes transactions, with block producers drawn from the validator set. Anchoring stake and checkpoints to Ethereum ties Shibarium's record to the larger network's security.show more

1/ NEW: Obol Token Sale on CoinList 💥 Obol... is the foundation of Layer 1 blockchains and decentralized infrastructure networks. The sale starts February 24, 2025 at 17:00 UTC and is at a 30% discount to Obol’s last VC round. Register ➡️show more

XDC Network Added Another Major US Institutional Validator Clear... Street, a regulated New York financial infrastructure firm, has joined XDC Network (XDC Network) as a masternode validator. The regulated New York financial infrastructure firm will validate blocks and maintain the ledger. It will also participate in network governance under XDC's delegated proof of stake system. Clear Street joins other established institutions in the XDC Network ecosystem, including Deutsche Telekom and SBI Holdings.show more

I’ve been running validators on Solana for 8–9 months,... and over time, I realized that just running a validator isn’t enough. There has to be a bigger purpose. Here's Ice Staking — to support validator infra and open-source tooling🧵show more

New logo design for Obol!

IMPORTANT UPDATE glitchy bunnies are migrating to the home... of NFTs, ETH mainnet here’s how the migration works: • the migration bridge will open on the glitchy bunnies website on friday, july 3 • you will burn your bunny on megaeth and receive the exact same 1:1 bunny on eth mainnet. • the bridge will stay open for 60 days. after that, every unclaimed bunny will be minted to the treasury. • all requested custom 1/1 bunnies will be minted directly on eth mainnet. same bunny. new home. see you on ethereum.show more

Over the next few weeks, commonware will launch our... first "open" Constantinople cluster via our new onchain staking module. If you're curious what its like to run a validator at ~300-500k+ TPS (~16-32 cores + EBS-level disk), shoot me a DM 👀show more

SBI Holdings, a Super Validator on Canton, has rebranded... its subsidiary as SBI Digital Practice to build institutional infrastructure on the network, covering implementation support, compliance, and cross-border transaction systems. ↓ Full details.show more

🚨 BITMINE IS ALMOST HALF THE ETHEREUM VALIDATOR QUEUE... TOM Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FSInsight.com: “Almost 3 million now staked. We’re half of the staking queue. There’s like 4 million ETH I think we’re 2 million of that.” 🔹4.23M ETH held 🔹3.0M ETH already staked 🔹2.0M ETH sitting in the staking queue Over 4M ETH is waiting to enter staking. BITMINE is nearly half of the entire line. That’s ETH supply moving out of circulation. $ETH $BMNRshow more

A new standard for cross-chain DeFi begins today. Enso... is expanding its execution layer with Chainlink's CCIP, adding a new institutional-grade cross-chain rail to our production infrastructure.show more

NEW: Gulf Labs, part of Thailand's $27 billion GULF... Group, has selected Injective to deploy its institutional validator and will collaborate with Injective across tokenization, stablecoins and enterprise distribution. Institutional adoption for Injective is rapidly growing 👇show more

🚨MARKETS: ETHEREUM TOKENIZATION SURGES 315% IN SINGLE YEAR More... than $17 billion in tokenized RWAs have now been issued on Ethereum mainnet. This new figure represents a nearly +315% surge since the same time last year. $ETH now boasts a 34% market share of the tokenized RWA market. [Source: TheBlock]show more