1/3 Been OOTL on EIP-8363 until reading the weekly email digest from eth-magicians, and blindsided by it trending on CT. Been catching up on it, and I can see why it’s divisive. Intuitively, it feels like highly experimental brain surgery on Ethereum’s monetary policy at just the time that big capital is warming up to using the chain at scale. As a solo staker since around the Merge, I’d like to think that I’ll keep staking even at epsilonesque rewards, because I believe in the project and want to contribute, even modestly, to the CROP guarantee. To be fair, today’s effective base rate of 2.6% is hardly an incentive to begin with. It was much higher when I started out (<500K validator index). But I also realize that wishful thinking isn’t a sound monetary strategy, and that solo stakers switching off their nodes due to an even more unfavorable risk/reward (and by risk I also mean the cost of hardware, or maintenance time, etc.) is antithetical to the thriving solo staking community I long for.

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x-posting my article on why I think tapering the issuance curve is good https://x.com/dfern_eth/status/2085132824768864675?s=20

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The 2026 edition of the annual Ethstaker survey is still open. Let your voice be heard if you are staking: https://ethstaker.org/forms/staking-landscape-survey-2026

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https://farcaster.xyz/vitalik.eth/0x35a69be8

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Shoutout to epineph in the @rocketpool discord who tagged me b/c my node was down for a week (Beaconcha.in didn't tell me)! If you're running @ethnimbus, make sure your node is up! I just restarted my beacon node and there's a fix out now: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v26.2.0

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For something as important as distributed fully owned staking it's great to hear the team is prioritizing security with the Saturn release 🪐🚀🔷 Likely now for early February https://x.com/Rocket_Pool/status/1996073600990752933

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Today’s the day, make sure your nodes are updated Also, did you know that a herd of zebras is called a dazzle?

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Amazing to be featured in @waq's Rocket Fuel episode yesterday, the show for Ethereum's most decentralized staking protocol! [25:50] 🟢🚀 Happy to help coordinate multi factor verification MFV of @safe and Rocket Pool contracts on Etherscan. Rocket Pool contracts now show a label on Etherscan to help verify and bookmark contracts you're working with are legitimate. Thanks to Kane, @langers, and @harithk17 for doing the harder work to verify the contracts. https://x.com/waqwaqattack/status/1965948453797933396 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6_T7pLS-U&t=1550s

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Use decentralized ETH staking @rocket-pool with better security by being able to verify the contract labels you're interacting with on Etherscan 🔍🔶 Thank you to Kane Wallmann and @langers for working with @harithk17 and the Etherscan team to add the "Rocket Pool" label for rETH and the storage contracts! These labels can be used as part of the multi factor verification MFV process for important transactions.

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I discovered Mellow Protocol on Lido 🔷🛰️ It'll be interesting to learn how the distributed validator rewards on @ssv-network + @obol are generated to get to the current 4% APR with Lido

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always excited to see this

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Woke up to a flurry of failed attestations from my solo validator. The NUC’s SSD finally gave up the ghost after three years of intense I/O. Not the most pleasant start of a Sunday, but I was expecting it at some point, and had a spare SSD on hand. Swapped the disks, flashed Ubuntu Server, clean-installed eth-docker, and less than one hour of tinkering later, I am now syncing from checkpoint, which should complete by tomorrow. Running a solo validator does take some effort, and the rewards of ~2.7% APY aren’t much, but putting the de- in decentralization is priceless

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Reminder: There's no such thing as safe CEX ⚠️ I tested out what the real ETH staking APR is on Gemini and my funds have been mysteriously on "hold" for a week after submitting the requested documentation. Another good example for self ownership of staking with @safe, Keycard, EthereumPhone /ethos, GridPlus, Hito, etc.

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Interesting idea on Ethereum future proof of stake PoS upgrades - The name "proof of stake" PoS makes more sense than "proof of governance" PoG - Validators are creating and validating new blocks under the proposed model. It doesn't have to do with governance. - Paying validators the market rate for block building and validating without staking is interesting to simplify the network. However this new model doesn't have a way to penalize bad actors which brings us back to staking and slashing? It seems John Adler doesn't agree with his own rage bait "validators are cucks" because he admits they are essential to the network for block building and validating. https://x.com/therollupco/status/1948074899492278452

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stVaults aren't just modular contracts—they're sovereignty infra. Institutions get compliance. Validators get customization. Stakers keep their liquidity. Making the complex effortless = Lido magic. https://x.com/LidoFinance/status/1945405852095037515

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