Squad Staking

Introducing the University Validator Program! 🎓 Created in collaboration with @Collegedao_Hub, this program is designed to bring high quality Ethereum education to universities: teaching students how to run validators in a decentralized way! 👇🧵

@Obol_Collective squad running validators and agents on the same machine

$50M has already settled between AI agents via x402 in just a few months. The commerce layer for the agent economy is being decided right now, and we're ensuring it will be open and on Ethereum. Today we shipped Obol Stack v0.9.0. $OBOL is now money for the agent economy!

whole squad running validators & agents

@Obol_Collective whole squad updating our ENS and profile pictures ASAP!

The DV Launchpad just got a major upgrade 🚀 See who's running Distributed Validators...and who has a stake in it. Here's what's new 🧵⬇️

pro tip: update your ENS and profile picture, and flex with your squad 💪

@Obol_Collective @base more nodes in more homes, more agents in more homes

ObolClaw v0.8.0 is live! Deploy an AI agent on your own hardware. Sell services. Earn USDC on Mainnet or @base! One-line install, one command. Agentic commerce on Ethereum! Here's what shipped 🧵

@Obol_Collective @dsrvlabs doing it for the squads in SK!

Obol and @dsrvlabs present a collaborative report on the State of Ethereum in South Korea. A deep dive into one of Ethereum’s most unique local scenes featuring the key voices pushing it forward. As we discovered, the South Korean community is ready to build the future 🇰🇷🌱

huge news for the squad

Obol and @Nethermind are joining forces to strengthen Ethereum. Introducing Pluto: a new client built on the DV Spec that brings client diversity to Distributed Validators.

The Staking End Game Pantera just dropped their thesis on the future of staking. Obol Distributed Validators will secure trillions in value.

📢 Update: Migration complete! We've successfully shifted 1,000 Lido validators from mainnet to intra-operator DVT with @Obol_Collective Zero slashes, <30 min downtime. Delicate process, but resilience wins every time 🔒 This operation boosts Lido's APR via OBOL tokens & hardens our setup. Committed to @LidoFinance & @Obol_Collective! 🤝

@hanni_abu @RobertSagurton Robert, you're about to get cooked if you continue to respond. I am warning you now

@RobertSagurton Please tell me why a VC chain can do this better than an L2 secured by Ethereum

Why am I cozying up to my fellow alt L1’s? Because our decentralized survival depends on it. The fact is: the Ethereum/L2 model is incompatible with a diverse, decentralized, multi-chain future. This is both a complement to Ethereum/L2’s, and a call to action for alt L1’s to step things up. Let’s dissect: A potential route we’re going down is: Bitcoin and Ethereum (plus L2’s) become really the only choice of chains. Yep, you just heard that from a non-Eth guy. Which could mean we end up in a future where Bitcoin is digital gold, Ethereum is the only trusted settlement layer, and everything else is accepted by new entrants as – “best done on an L2”. They can make a decent argument for that – and you’re now seeing that more and more of that on your TL. As “what CAN’T you do on a single sequencer??” From perp dexes, to corpo L2’s, to prediction markets, to permissioned environments, etc etc. Trust me, all that stuff is way easier to build when you don’t have validators to work around. And If there’s regulatory cover – why wouldn’t every CEX just also call themselves an L2? A few tweaks and you’re off to the token launch races! So if the rest of us alt L1’s with validators get complacent – the above could be our ghost of Christmas future. But is that the future we want? Is that the better decentralized world we promised our kids?? Not in my mind. The end result of the “Eth takes most” future is just effectively decentralizing DTCC and retaining a lot of the same trust assumptions at the execution layer we have with CEX’s. No thanks. We can do better. And history has shown L2 fragmentation result in poor UX, composability, finality, etc. It’s the reason Solana was able to make such gains against Eth these past years (until the 2 Vlad’s entered L2 stage right). So what’s the counter to that? Optimized L1’s with independent validators not under common control. And we need to win on the UX and composability and finality and other protections that come with that. L1’s are stronger together. Game on.

@Obol_Collective the squad is ready to run this thing

Forgot about The Obol Stack? We’ve been buidling. This changes everything. More soon.

@Obol_Collective @Stakely_io @LidoFinance squaaaaaad!

The end game of Ethereum staking is coming ⏳ Stakely is the first node operator to join our Curated Module Migration Program. Obol 🤝 @Stakely_io 🤝 @LidoFinance

@TrinityMorphy @greenpilldevs squaaaaaad!

Early last month, @greenpilldevs published its Regenerative Stack series, exploring different ideas and models for funding regenerative coordination. One model that really stood out to me was squad staking, where a group of people (a squad) come together to collectively run an Ethereum validator. The existing approach focuses on technical participation: squad members purchase nodes, use DVTs like @Obol_Collective, and join @LidoFinance CSM to access the 32 ETH validator collateral after providing a bond between 1.8 to 2.5 ETH. In my latest article, I explore the separation of technical contribution and financial where members could choose to be technical participants that purchase nodes to run the squad validator or financial participants that provide the bond for activating validator capital from chosen staking protocols. I also outline practical allocation strategies for using this model to create a scalable and sustainable funding mechanism for regeneration. I would love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Link to article: carboncopy.news/features/optim…