Rhino Review Ethereum Staking Journal #27

Welcome to the newest edition of Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal! 🦏

Find out the Spanish version here. Thanks to the support of the ETHKipu team!

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Rhino Review was among the supporters of the Privacy Reunion & Staking Day organized by Ethereum Argentina, and I am delighted to present this summary to you!

The event took place on August 1st and hosted many participants and speakers. The increase in the number of stakers and node operators in Argentina, particularly in Latin America, is of great importance for Ethereum. With the increase in geographical diversity, Ethereum becomes a more robust and resilient network, securing all its actors, projects and people.

Presentations were made with this goal in mind at this visionary and humble event. Being a validator certainly has financial and technical challenges, but contributing to Ethereum as a node operator is a much cheaper and more accessible way. Anyone can set up a node with a cheap mini-computer like Skylar did and join the network.

The event began with a presentation by Skylar from the EF titled “Why is staking important for Ethereum.” He conveyed the mission of Ethereum as a next-generation community computer and gave important messages about why staking is super important.

Then, in the presentation by Nacho from SenseiNode, which operates in the LATAM region, the details and technical requirements of being a node operator were discussed. It was very nice to share experiences with the participants in the tips and recommendations in this section. The day continued with a presentation by Enti, one of the contributors from Lido. Enti provided details about Lido’s new project, CSM, and talked about how to participate and how CSM contributes to Ethereum’s decentralization.

You can watch the all presentations here!

• Introducing the ethstaker-deposit-cli

• Beaconcha.in V2 beta is live on Holesky

  • Real-time monitoring of up to 100,000 validators

  • Create custom validator groups

  • New metric: Validator Efficiency

• EthPillar v1.7.5 released

• Stakers Union: Open for Applications

  • EFDevcon for providing Stakers Union members with free and discounted tickets to Devcon 7

• Staking on Ethereum - an intro (2024 edition)

• The 2024 Staking Survey report is published

• Stereum 2.2.0 - Heartcore

• The DVT Home Staking Curriculum - StakeSaurus

• ROP-8: Geographical distribution of Ethereum validators

  • Estimating Ethereum's Validators Decentralization leveraging p2p data

    • Dune Dashboard

• Introducing: Dappnode Home x Lido

• Lido CSM is live on Holesky testnet

  • Testnet Entry

  • CSM Intro

  • Technical Setup Guide

  • Who is eligible for Early Adoption

• Lido Community Staking Module (CSM) on testnet - July Updates

• Stakewise V3 is live on Gnosis Chain

• Shutterized Gnosis Chain is live

  • Participate as a validator

• HOPR Node Operators Call featuring Dappnode, Obol Collective, Shutter Network and Nethermind

• Erigon 3, the first all-in-one EVM-node on the efficient software frontier, is live.

• Maximum Viable Security: A New Framing for Ethereum Issuance

• Deep Diving Attestations - A quantitative analysis

• Supplementing Censorship Resistance Today

• Execution layer cross-validation

• Why I am against EOF in Pectra

• Nethermind Sedge v1.4.0 ready to download

• Diseconomies of Scale: Anti-Correlation Penalties (EIP-7716)

• Blobs, Reorgs, and the Role of MEV-Boost

• Orbit SSF: solo-staking-friendly validator set management for SSF

• Exploring Correlation Patterns in the Ethereum Validator Network

• DVT

  • Releasing Charon 1.0

  • Distributed validators on Gnosis Chain

• SSV now has over 800,000 ETH Staked

• How often do you cash out staking rewards?

• Staking rewards to a different wallet

• Staking Stats @ 6 months

• Staking options

• Worth upgrading 2tb to 4tb now with some of the prime deals, or wait it out for prices to come down in the coming years?

• ETH staking advice for a total beginner

• What is the average daily reward supposed to be?

• Consensus Layer

  • Teku v24.6.1

  • Prysm v5.0.4

  • Lodestar v1.21.0-rc-1

  • Nimbus v24.7.0

  • Lighthouse v5.2.1

• Execution Layer

  • Geth v1.14.7

  • Nethermind v1.28.0-rc

  • Erigon v3.0.0-alpha1

  • Besu 24.7.0

  • Reth v1.0.3

📌 Note: Gnosis Chain runs the same composite client software and tooling stack as Ethereum, with minor parameter tweaks. As such, Gnosis is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Ethereum’s Beacon Chain consensus. For more details, check the official docs

Client Diversity Is Not Optional - It’s critical

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don’t understand why or just how essential it is. It’s not only important — it’s critical!

• Staking & Consensus by EthStaker videos

  • Don't let your friends do MEV

  • Tales from Interop

  • Justin Drake

  • What's the issue with issuance?

  • Ethereum Staking Kahoot Quiz

• Client monogamy by James Prestwich

• Increase solo staking execution rewards by 120%

• Advancing base layer neutrality: The Launch of Shutter's Encrypted Mempool on Gnosis Chain

• Set up your own Ethereum Node with Stereum

• MEV in 2025

• Exploring Ethereum’s Colleration Risk

• Awesome Ethereum Staking Resources

• Staking Directory

• Panarama

• Ethereum Dashboards

• Staking on Ethereum A to Z

• EthStaker Knowledge Base

• Beaconcha.in Knowledge Base

• Week in Ethereum Newsletter

• ETH Withdrawals FAQ

• Ethereum Staking 🥩 by Hildobby

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