Liquid Collective’s Active Set Now Includes Distributed Validators
The enterprise-grade liquid staking network gets an overhaul with Ethereum’s leading Distributed Validator technology offering.
Liquid Collective, the open and interoperable staking network working to provide secure, liquid staking access for individuals and institutions, is advancing its validator infrastructure by adopting Obol Distributed Validators (DVs) in a percentage of its enterprise-grade active set.
This is a natural milestone in a long-standing collaboration between Alluvial and DV Labs. The Alluviual team supports Liquid Collective’s development while DV Labs are core contributors to Obol Collective. Over the past two years, both teams have worked side by side to bring institutional-grade staking to Ethereum.
In April 2024, Liquid Collective and Obol announced a collaboration for DV Labs to support the advancement of Liquid Collective’s infrastructure, including DV exploration. Together with other key collaborators, they were founding members of the Node Operator Risk Standard (NORS), the first formal certification framework for evaluating validator risk, security, and operational resilience.
Liquid Collective was designed from day one to meet institutional requirements for Ethereum staking—offering a standardized, compliance-focused, and non-custodial experience. Its onchain staking receipt token, LsETH, enables capital-efficient use in DeFi while maintaining rigorous performance, transparency, and risk controls.
Obol, meanwhile, has built the most battle-tested validator infrastructure in Ethereum—now emerging as the industry standard with leading protocols like Lido, ether.fi, StakeWise, Bitcoin Suisse, and more relying on Obol DVs.
Now, with Liquid Collective formally integrating Obol DVs, this shared commitment to institutional-grade infrastructure enters a new chapter—where improved performance, better protection, and more rewards become the standard.
How Obol Meets Liquid Collective’s Needs
1. Institutional Alignment
Obol DVs are built for the same group Liquid Collective serves: Institutions. There are no token dependencies or shared network risk. With Obol DVs, Liquid Collective stakers benefit from using secure, self-contained validator clusters.
2. Security via Distributed Key Generation (DKG)
With Obol’s DKG, validator keys are never stored in one place. This eliminates single points of failure and dramatically reduces slashing and compromise risks.
3. Performance and Resilience
DVs are designed to outperform traditional validators by optimizing for uptime and maintaining validator operations even in the face of outages or client-side issues. For stakers, that means fewer missed opportunities and more rewards.
What This Means for Liquid Collective Stakers
- Upgraded Infrastructure, Greater Confidence
With a portion of Liquid Collective’s validator infrastructure now operating on DVs, institutional clients and individual stakers benefit from even greater security, performance, and reliability.
- Higher Rewards, Lower Downtime
DVs improve attestation rates, uptime, and operational security—leading to more rewards for LsETH holders.
DVs reduce missed attestations, downtime, and operational risks—leading to more rewards for LsETH holders.
- An Industry-Wide Shift
With this move, Liquid Collective joins a growing list of leading staking protocols, platforms and institutions to embrace Distributed Validators—Ethereum’s industry standard validator technology.
About Obol
The Obol Collective is the leader in institutional-grade staking technology and the champion of Distributed Validators. We bring performance improvements, enhanced security, and more rewards to Ethereum and other decentralized infrastructure networks.
About Liquid Collective
Liquid Collective is an open and interoperable staking network, built and supported by a broad collective of industry leaders. Liquid Collective’s staking tokens, including Liquid Staked ETH (LsETH), provide institutions and individuals alike with secure, liquid, and flexible access to staking. Learn more via the Liquid Collective website or follow the project on X.