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

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.

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

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.