Blockdaemon Doubles Down on Obol Distributed Validators

After upgrading to Obol Distributed Validators earlier this year, Blockdaemon is joining the Curated Module Migration Program to increase its supply of ETH staked with Obol. 

In June 2025, Blockdaemon took a step into the future of staking when it upgraded its infrastructure to support Obol Distributed Validators (DVs). The team made this call because Obol addresses all of the biggest staking pain points, describing our technology as a “significant advancement” for the ecosystem. As one of the leading institutional node operators securing over $110 billion in assets, Blockdaemon’s move offers some clues into how enterprise-grade entities think about staking. 

Now, Blockdaemon is signaling its confidence in Obol once again as it prepares to deploy a portion of its Lido Curated Module stake on Obol Distributed Validators. Blockdaemon is joining the Curated Module Migration Program, following Lido’s expansion of its support for Obol. Integrating Obol into the Curated Module enables Lido to deploy its largest share of TVL on Distributed Validators for the first time. Until now, Lido’s use of Obol was limited to the Simple DVT Module and CSM. While not the majority right away, this move opens the path for most of Lido’s TVL to eventually run on DVs. This is significant because it gives many leading operators like Blockdaemon a way to leverage the most resilient, highest-performing validators on Ethereum. 

Leading Enterprise-Grade Staker Signals Belief in Obol DVs

The Curated Module Migration program is designed to help Lido operators integrate Obol into their staking stacks. In Blockdaemon’s case, the program allows the company to double down on its conviction in Distributed Validators by increasing its committed stake. Following Lido’s Curated Module update, our program will ensure many more operators take the same path. 

Obol has been one of Lido’s key infrastructure partners for most of its lifetime. But as the Curated Module accounts for the majority of Lido’s TVL, its recent upgrade is its most significant one for Obol adoption to date. The Curated Module Migration Program has already welcomed Stakely and DSRV alongside Blockdaemon, with other reputed names in the Ethereum staking ecosystem lined to follow them in the near future. 

Ethereum recently entered its second decade and as it passed that milestone it also entered a new era. We are now watching Ethereum’s institutional moment unfold, and with it, much more stake is heading onchain. The entities that operate this stake prioritize security (and performance, and rewards) and this is one of the reasons our Distributed Validator technology is attracting new adopters. We believe that most staked ETH will live across Obol Distributed Validators in a future we like to refer to as “the staking end game.” Blockdaemon’s latest commitment to increase its stake with Obol is the latest sign that we are moving closer to that future every day.