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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.
33 Min
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...
7 Min
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...
5 Min
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.
7 Min
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...
5 Min
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...
21 Min
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.
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
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...
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Dec 2024
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...
53 Min
Staking
Nov 2024
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
The Public Crypto Accumulator Era - Part 1
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.
31 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Solana the Modular
...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.
50 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Aug 2024
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...
28 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2023
Transaction Ordering Policies & Value Accrual in L2s: Timeboost, OP PGA, Fastlane, and OEV Network
FastLane FastLane builds smart contracts and infrastructure that allow validators, apps, oracles, and...One of their designs is used by validators to order transactions on the Polygon network....FastLane helped reduce transaction spam and increased validator revenue....This allows validators to sort transactions by bid amount without relying on simulations.
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Layer 2 / L2
Sep 2024
Avalanche L1s: Powering the Future of Appchains
Subsampling allows validators to reach consensus by repeatedly querying random subgroups of the validator...Network validation a dealbreaker....weight of a malicious validator....Avalanche L1’s Validator Earnings Validator earnings are determined by the rules of the Avalanche L1.
22 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
validator’s stake, as the reference price....Justin Drake raised his validator gas limit at 36M recently....It integrates ZK proofs directly into block validation....into a single validator instead of multiple ones, thereby reducing the number of validators on the network...validators and application developers.
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
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.
52 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2023
Based Rollups: The New ETH Alignment
Instead, each L2 block is built by an L2 builder, thus not adding overload on L1 validators....As soon as a valid L2 block is included in L1, it is in effect final....It’s possible to prove in real-time with a SNARK that transaction execution is valid....The beacon attesters vote on the validity and timeliness of the beacon block.
42 Min
Infrastructure
Mar 2024
Fuel Network: Redefining Scalability for Modular Blockchains
The validity rules for contract UTXOs also have additional constraints....Thus, the only thing needed to validate them is the transaction data itself....Validation Since transaction outputs are explicitly included for validation, asserting that a block that...blacklist what sent the transaction because it was valid at the time of sending.
38 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jul 2024
A Look At Dispute Resolution Protocols in Optimistic Rollups
Now, the claims aren’t considered valid immediately....This is possible by either bribing validators or running their own....validity of state transitions....than to gain control of 1/3 of validators for 3 days....honest validators on Ethereum.
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Layer 2 / L2
Jun 2024