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.

🔍 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...

🚨 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...

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.

...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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

...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!

...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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

However, subnets must bootstrap their own validator sets, so paid fees there will accrue to subnet validators...(not Primary Network AVAX validators)....An average of 100 validators across a long tail of subnets is unrealistic. ...It also assumes that every subnet validator is a completely new AVAX validator (i.e., causing 2000 AVAX...

Solana: Combines validator-based income with fast execution and public narrative leverage....A substantial portion of its ETH balance is now delegated to validators, generating 4–5% annual yield...They are operationalizing it through staking, validator operations, and long-term alignment with the...Sol Strategies has disclosed direct validator operations.

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.

...of the validator client....Block Vote Signatures: These are cryptographic signatures from Solana validators, confirming the validity...Smaller, Permissioned Validator Set: The network operates with a smaller, permissioned set of validators...This ensures all transactions are valid and verifiable.