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ZK (Validity) Rollups: Entering the General Purpose Era
Fraud Proofs vs Validity Proofs Rollups are the most popular way to try and solve blockchain scalability...This is where the term Optimistic comes in – all state changes are assumed valid until they are proven...Validity proofs, on the other hand, do not make such an assumption....These are separate blockchains that have their own permissionless set of validators.
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ZK-Rollups
Jun 2022
The ETH Liquid Staking Derivative Wars
🔍 The ETH Liquid Staking Derivative Wars To stake ETH, users have to run validator nodes on Ethereum...Node operators are responsible for staking ETH and running validators on behalf of depositors....They allow anyone to set up a mini-pool validator, with a minimum requirement of 16 ETH staked from the...
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Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2023
ETH Borrow Rate On Aave Rises As Users Position For The Merge
🚨 In Case You Missed It Vitalik says he is in favor of burning the staked ETH of any validator that...Jump Crypto announces it will build a new, open-source validator client for Solana, independent from...🚨 In Case You Missed It Vitalik says he is in favor of burning the staked ETH of any validator that...
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Money Markets
Aug 2022
Vitalik's Warning
Currently, there are many Actively Validated Services (AVS) that benefit from Ethereum’s security and...First of all, bootstrapping a network of validators can be extremely challenging....Economic security of blockchains relies on validators being incentivized to behave properly....Does removing validation from a token model make it less valuable? A2.
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Staking
Jun 2023
Lido's Game Theory
LSDs let users bypass the frictions of staking ETH: (i) the technical know-how of running a validator...Last month’s Ethereum Shapella upgrade enabled Ethereum validators to finally withdraw their staked ETH...Distributed Validator Technology clusters will be introduced that group validators into independent committees...
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DeFi
May 2023
Paladin of the Solana Round Table
...its host validator is the slot leader....The potential payoff for validators?...validators to embrace a new system is no small feat....What if a group of dishonest validators try to slash an honest one?...If a validator recognizes a dishonest attempt to slash an honest validator, their best move is to propose...
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DeFi
Sep 2024
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
As long as it’s translated into revenue, it’ll be valid....For example, a rollup posts a ZK proof showing that a batch of txs were valid....SNARK) is valid, if a rollup chooses to post one....If even one Ethereum rollup (not a ghost chain) switches over, that’s validation....What it doesn’t have is validation.
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Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
The Race To Become Solana's Liquid Staking Winner
On Solana it is a simple process to delegate to a validator....Validator Fee – weighted average fee paid to validators on rewards Marinade is the first liquid staking...These are some of the largest validators on Solana, including Everstake (#1 validator), Chorus One (#2...In addition to inflation, validators earn transaction fees and MEV.
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Proof-of-Stake
Apr 2022
MEV Manifesto
Validator (Proposer) – Perform consensus duties....Gasper today is validator set limits vs. finality time: Tendermint – Small validator set, but fast finality...If validators censor – you can punish them....This trust wouldn’t scale to a decentralized validator set, so validators must commit to the header without...
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MEV
Oct 2022
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ethereum
...on blocks as valid or invalid. ...relies on the honest majority of validators – as an individual validator, my columns and rows being...Decentralized validation matters. ...The validator receives the block, executes it, and decides if it’s valid. That’s it!
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Layer 1 / L1
May 2022
Sui Network: Demystifying the Monolithic Contender
...system that accommodates both high-stake core validators and lower-stake auxiliary validators....While core validators’ function continues as it is, auxiliary validators operate outside the transaction...Staking As per Staking Rewards, Sui has 108 validators, with 93 active validators having +30M SUI staked...
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Layer 1 / L1
Dec 2024
The Year Ahead for Infrastructure
A valid signature can be formed when both parties (validators and users) sign their secret shares....Searchers would realistically only be able to trust large validators, so the home validators would be...This removed the need for builders to trust validators, but came at a cost (in that a validator needed...
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MEV
Dec 2022
WTF Is Anoma? Part 3: WTF is Typhon?
validators they just send references to transactions that we know are available (that other validators...We also have 5 validators that are validating these chains, broken down as follows: Validator 1: only...validates for blue chain Validators 2, 3, 4: validate for both blue and yellow chain Validator 5: only...
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Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2023
Aurora: Another EVM Chain, or the Beginning of Near?
Thus, validator income is predictable when denominated in NEAR....Secondly, no transaction fees go to validators....As a reminder, this is a Near validator. Aurora does not have validators....Validators earn 4.5% issuance but no transaction fees....Right now it is a yield of about 10.6% for running a validator.
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Infrastructure
May 2022
Solana the Monolith
We’ll start with the main point of contention with respect to Solana: validation....Validator Decentralization Solana currently has ~2.9k full nodes, of which ~1.8k are staked (i.e., validators...But somewhat unique to Solana is that it has numerous applications running validators as well....Every validator, no matter their stake, needs to vote on every block.
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Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Restaking Games: Chasing for Yield
Existing Ethereum validators restake by linking their validator’s withdrawal credentials to an EigenPod...Validators with more SOL staked are allowed to send more packets, while validators with smaller stakes...For example, if Validator A holds 10% of the network’s total stake and Validator B holds 20%, Validator...
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Staking
Nov 2024
The Cosmos Ecosystem Has Arrived
Historically, we’ve seen App-Chains bootstrap their validator sets on their own....As seen in the pie chart above, the top 10 validators account for 48% of all the ATOM staked....For context, the total number of validators is 144 currently....The exact amount of revenue that is shared varies by validator (you can monitor it here).
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Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2021
Update: Ethereum's Network Activity
There are 29,579 active validators with 12,779 pending validators in the queue....Since the Dec.1 launch, queue wait time for pending validators has increased from 6 to almost 14 days...After a slow start, validator participation rates remain elevated above 99%....The Beacon Chain supports the capacity for tens of thousands of validators globally.
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Infrastructure
Dec 2020
L1 vs L2: Entering The Endgame
Put simply, scalability is the ability to process more transactions without increasing the cost to validate...In the case of hubs, the trusted third party becomes the majority validators of the counterparty chain...In a typical blockchain, full nodes download and validate all transactions while light nodes — who don...
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Validators
Dec 2021
Elixir: Democratizing Liquidity Provisioning in the Age of Orderbooks
Once the data is broadcasted, 66% consensus is required from Elixir’s validator network....Elixir’s validator network is a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) network....This means end users delegate their stake to validators who proportionally receive rewards....“Relay Nodes” then check if the validator network has reached 66% consensus.
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Orderbook
Oct 2024