Distributed Validators are coming to Swell
Swell is integrating Obol Distributed Validators (DVs) into their liquid restaking protocol, a major step in modernizing their staking stack to deliver better performance, lower risks, and greater rewards for users.
We’re excited to announce that Swell is integrating Obol Distributed Validators (DVs) into their liquid restaking protocol, a major step in modernizing their staking stack to deliver better performance, lower risks, and greater rewards for users.
Why Swell chose Obol
Less Risks
Swell is modernizing its staking stack by adopting multi-operator clusters, where multiple validator operators work together to improve security, reliability, and decentralization. As part of this approach, Obol’s Distributed Key Generation (DKG) enables validators to generate and manage keys collaboratively, preventing any single operator from having full control. By reducing single points of failure and strengthening key security, Swell minimizes the risk of slashing and other penalties while enhancing overall staking performance.
Better Performance
Performance is critical in Ethereum staking—higher uptime and efficiency mean more rewards and a stronger network. Obol’s DVs deliver the highest-performing validators by optimizing validator uptime and reducing inefficiencies that plague legacy setups. The multi-operator cluster architecture not only increases security but also improves validator responsiveness and fault tolerance, ensuring maximal staking rewards for Swell users.
More Rewards
With better performance and minimized downtime, distributed validators yield higher rewards compared to traditional validators. Additionally, Swell users may benefit from future incentives distributed by the Obol Collective, further increasing total staking rewards.
Strengthening Ethereum, together
By modernizing their stacking stack with Obol DVs, Swell gets stronger security, better performance, and more rewards. Stay tuned for more updates.
About the Obol Collective
The Obol Collective is the largest Decentralized Operator Ecosystem and the champion of Distributed Validators. We bring better performance, more rewards, less risks to Ethereum and other decentralized infrastructure networks. Learn more at obol.org.
About Swell
Swell is a liquid (re)staking protocol with its own vertically-integrated rollup. Stake and restake your assets with Swell, and then boost your restaking yield on Swellchain—the first vertically-integrated restaked rollup, powered by Proof of Restake. Learn more at swellnetwork.io