Obol Collective Blog

Updates & Announcements

Obol V2: Looking Forward

In our continued effort to build the Obol Network; we have begun a working group to research, specify, implement, and maintain Obol V2, the Distributed Validator Protocol.

Education

Decentralising Cosmos validator sets with Distributed Validator Technology (Part 1)

In this multi-part blog post series, we will be researching and exploring potential use cases of Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Updates & Announcements

Launching Our Alpha Release

We’re happy to announce that we’ve now officially entered the Alpha Release of the Obol Network! For the first time, we'll be deploying Mainnet DVs with the community. Here's all the details of the launch.

Community Testing

The Bia Testing Program: Claiming Rewards, Exiting & What’s Next

After 1600+ distributed validator clusters run by 9000+ nodes around the world and 60+ organizations, we are ready to start winding down the Bia Testing Program, gathering learnings, and looking forward to what’s next. When we closed out Athena, our first testing program 6+ months ago, we led with

Education

The Future of Staking: A Look at Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade

The Ethereum ecosystem is on the brink of a significant transformation with the upcoming Shanghai upgrade. This article explores key metrics and delves into the potential impact of the hard fork on the staking ecosystem.

Updates & Announcements

Road to Mainnet for Distributed Validators

Today, we announced Ethereum Mainnet’s first distributed validator! This marks the first phase of Obol’s journey to bringing DVs to Mainnet Ethereum. Here, we will walk through our current design philosophy, protocol roadmap, and adoption strategy.

Community Testing

The Bia Journey: Beginning on Goerli Testnet

Today, we are launching a critical initiative to promote community involvement in the journey towards the adoption of distributed validators.

Community Testing

The Obol Ambassador Program

Today, we are launching a critical initiative to promote community involvement in the journey towards the adoption of distributed validators.

Updates & Announcements

Obol Raises $12.5M to Decentralize Ethereum Staking Infrastructure

Why we're excited about the future we can build together with the community to usher in next generation of staking.

Education

Committee Aggregations with Distributed Validators

A proposal to add two new endpoints to the beacon API that would allow DVT validator clients to support committee aggregations.

Updates & Announcements

Introducing the Distributed Validator Launchpad

Today, we've launched our Distributed Validator Launchpad in public beta to help make it easier and safer for anyone to setup a DV cluster.

Education

How DVT Helps: Liquid Staking Protocols

This is part 1 in a multi-part series that explores how DVT helps the different types of validators in the Ethereum ecosystem, starting with the fastest growing type: liquid staking protocols.

Education

Designing Non-Correlation: Deep Dive Into DVT and Charon’s Architecture

Minimizing correlation is vital when designing DVT as Ethereum Proof of Stake is designed to heavily punish correlated behavior. In designing Obol, we’ve made careful choices to create a trust-minimized and non-correlated architecture.

Education

What is DVT and How Does It Improve Staking on Ethereum?

If you haven’t yet heard, Distributed Validator Technology, or DVT, is the next big thing on The Merge section of the Ethereum roadmap.

Life At Obol

Takeaways From Berlin During The Merge

The Obol team just wrapped up a week in Berlin for DappCon’22, EthBerlin3, and The Merge. The main takeaway? The drive to create a decentralized future has never been greater, and we’re committed to doing our part.

Life At Obol

A Big Week for Ethereum: DappCon 2022, EthBerlin3, and The Merge

The Obol team will be giving keynote talks and holding workshops on DVT at DappCon and EthBerlin from Sept. 12-18th. Find out how you can learn from and engage with the team!

Community Testing

The Athena Journey: Running, Exiting & What's Next

Our Athena testnet resulted in 5000+ signups, 200+ successful Distributed Key Generation (DKG) ceremonies, 100+ Distributed Validator Clusters signing attestations across 40+ countries.

Community Testing

The Athena Journey: Distributed Key Generation

The next step in the Athena journey is taking part in a Distributed Key Generation Ceremony with other operators, setting the stage for validator activation which will take place in waves.

Community Testing

Launching the Obol Operator Community

Today we are excited to launch the Obol Operator Community (OOC), in connection with the launch of our first public testing program on Görli, called Athena. The OOC is designed to onboard staking products, enterprise validators, and client teams into the Obol Ecosystem for deeper collaboration across research, development, and

Community Testing

The Athena Journey: Beginning on Goerli Testnet

The Obol Core Team has been heads-down the last few months building out our Distributed Validator Middleware Client and running internal devnets. The time has come for Charon to be tested by a larger community of Node Operators. Today we are announcing Obol's first public testing effort on

Updates & Announcements

Proto Community Launch

Obol Proto Community Today we are honored to launch the Obol Proto Community, an onramp to organize, educate, and incentivize community members contributing to DVT and the Obol Ecosystem. The Proto Community will fuse the different subcommunities of Obol and offer community members the opportunity to participate in the development

Education

Tackling the Staking Problem

In 2018 I feared Proof of Stake wouldn't be as decentralised as Proof of Work. In 2022 I'm doing something about it with Obol Labs.

Updates & Announcements

Obol's "Genesis Community" Of Investors & Advisors

Today we are excited to share our genesis community along with our guiding mission, vision, and values on our path to securing the decentralisation of Proof of Stake Ethereum.

Updates & Announcements

Lido DAO Approves Research Grant for Obol

Obol Technologies receives a grant from Lido to research Distributed Validator Technology