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Promoting staking security with the Node Operator Risk Standard (NORS)

Today, we’re proud to be a part of a collaborative group of industry-leading staking players to announce the Node Operator Risk Standard (NORS) certification, a first-of-its-kind certification built specifically for Ethereum node operator risk management.

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Introducing Obol Contributions: Stake, Contribute, Earn

Today marks the launch of the Obol Contributions Program, an opportunity for EVERY staker to get recognition for scaling and decentralising Ethereum by staking on Obol distributed validators (DVs). Stakers can participate by staking on Obol DVs via a Contributions launch partner such as Stakely, Mellow’s vault for Lido,

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Announcing the Obol Collective

Today marks the launch of the Obol Collective: a community dedicated to scaling Ethereum by strengthening the security, resiliency, and decentralisation of the consensus layer through the development and deployment of distributed validators. The Collective is fueled by Obol’s economic model, which directs 1% of staking rewards from DVs

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Releasing Charon 1.0

Today, we’re releasing Charon 1.0, the first long-term support (LTS) version of our DV middleware client. Our development team spent the last three years building Charon, Ethereum’s first distributed validator (DV) middleware client. Today, after years of collaborative development, rigorous audits, thorough testing, and solid Mainnet performance,

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Squad Staking: The Next Frontier in Ethereum Home Validation

It’s time to squad up! Have you ever wanted to run an Ethereum validator but lacked the 32ETH and intimate support needed to get started? If so, squad staking is for you! Get started at squadstaking.com. Let’s face it, solo staking is hard. It’s easier said

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1% For Decentralisation: A Funding Model For Ethereum

It’s time for Ethereum staking projects to commit to strengthening Ethereum’s foundation - the consensus layer. This is how Obol is going to help.

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Decentralising Restaking: Our Journey With ether.fi

EtherFi has committed to deploying $100M worth of stake (1,000 validators) on Obol DVs, run by seven of their partner node operators.

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Relm & Chainproof To Provide Discounted Slashing Insurance for DVs

ETH staking insurance is about to get a lot cheaper, thanks to Distributed Validators and upcoming insurance products from Relm and Chainproof. Historically, insuring against Ethereum staking risks was prohibitively expensive for node operators, staking protocols, and ETH holders alike. For example, there was a time when Lido spent 25%

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Announcing Our Collaboration With Liquid Collective

Today we’re excited to share our upcoming plans with Liquid Collective, the community of industry participants building LsETH, a liquid staking protocol built to meet the needs of enterprises.

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The Distributed Validator Protocol Roadmap

Distributed Validators (DVs) are the next critical infrastructure primitive for the Ethereum network to improve security, resiliency and decentralisation. With the initial adoption of squad staking deployments and the eventual release of multiple DV client implementations, there is a growing need to define a DV protocol that establishes a foundation

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Announcing our Mainnet Open Beta Release!

Today, we’re pumped to share that we’ve launched our Mainnet Open Beta phase! After years of development, testing, and initial Mainnet rollout, we are ready for our Beta launch!! It is time to allow everyone to run Mainnet distributed validators.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Lido DAO Approves Research Grant for Obol

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