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**Author:** [@obol-admin](https://community.obol.org/u/obol-admin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/about-the-research-category/545 "2025-05-23T10:28:26Z")
A space to explore emerging ideas, analyze trends, and document findings that can inform Obol’s strategy, product, and community. From technical deep-dives to ecosystem insights, this section captures the thinking that d… --- ## [Proposal: Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing-based Distributed Key Generation](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-publicly-verifiable-secret-sharing-based-distributed-key-generation/94)
**Author:** [@Michal](https://community.obol.org/u/Michal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-publicly-verifiable-secret-sharing-based-distributed-key-generation/94 "2023-11-14T08:11:41Z")
This is the first report prepared for Obol by Nethermind Research on cryptographic building blocks needed for Obol v2 . Stay tuned for more results that we will publish in the following weeks. Report lead: @aragirtas T… --- ## [Proposal: Key Refresh Scheme for DV operators](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-key-refresh-scheme-for-dv-operators/97)
**Author:** [@Michal](https://community.obol.org/u/Michal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-key-refresh-scheme-for-dv-operators/97 "2023-11-22T20:56:23Z")
Report lead: @aragirtas Today, we publish a second report from the Obol and Nethermind Research collaboration. This time, we cover another important topic – key refreshing. Key refreshing allows the operators in a DV cl… --- ## [Proposal: BFT protocol that can mutate its operator set in a byzantine setting](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-bft-protocol-that-can-mutate-its-operator-set-in-a-byzantine-setting/106)
**Author:** [@Michal](https://community.obol.org/u/Michal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-bft-protocol-that-can-mutate-its-operator-set-in-a-byzantine-setting/106 "2023-12-16T20:31:43Z")
Author: @olegjakushkin Task Identify a BFT protocol that can mutate its operator set in a byzantine setting. In other words describe DV cluster states and transitions – allow the Obol operator’s cluster to add and remov… --- ## [Proposal: Using DV clusters for encrypted transaction mempools](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-using-dv-clusters-for-encrypted-transaction-mempools/108)
**Author:** [@Michal](https://community.obol.org/u/Michal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-using-dv-clusters-for-encrypted-transaction-mempools/108 "2023-12-29T19:15:31Z")
Main author: @olegjakushkin Task Idea: have a Shutter-alike mechanism for securing transaction data from builders used in Obol Given Here, we assume that each DV cluster knows a set of its active validators and keep… --- ## [Proposal: Attributable Consensus Solution for DV Clusters -- Part 2](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-part-2/107)
**Author:** [@albert\_garreta](https://community.obol.org/u/albert_garreta)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-part-2/107 "2023-12-19T15:13:55Z")
Introduction and Overview In this post we continue with the description of our proposed solution for the problem of “Attributable consensus”. Please check the First Post for all the necessary background! In the First Po… --- ## [Proposal: Attributable Consensus Solution for DV Clusters – Part 3](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-part-3/109)
**Author:** [@albert\_garreta](https://community.obol.org/u/albert_garreta)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-part-3/109 "2024-01-04T13:31:35Z")
Albert Garreta, Ignacio Manzur, and Aikaterini Panagiota-Stouka on behalf of Nethermind Research. Introduction and overview This is the third installment of our series of posts on the topic of “Attributable consensus”. … --- ## [Proposal: Attributable Consensus Solution for DV Clusters – Appendix](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-appendix/110)
**Author:** [@albert\_garreta](https://community.obol.org/u/albert_garreta)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters-appendix/110 "2024-02-06T12:15:07Z")
Albert Garreta, Ignacio Manzur, and Aikaterini Panagiota-Stouka on behalf of Nethermind Research. Introduction and overview This is the last post in our series on Attributable Consensus (see Post 1, Post 2, and Post 3).… --- ## [RFC: Proposing a New Mechanism to Decentralize Sequencers - Distributed Sequencer Technology](https://community.obol.org/t/rfc-proposing-a-new-mechanism-to-decentralize-sequencers-distributed-sequencer-technology/59)
**Author:** [@dougie](https://community.obol.org/u/dougie)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/rfc-proposing-a-new-mechanism-to-decentralize-sequencers-distributed-sequencer-technology/59 "2023-05-24T18:18:55Z")
Introduction Greetings Obol Community, I’ve been researching DVT for a while now and recently I have been considering ways in which DVT can be applied beyond Ethereum’s consensus layer. A few months back, I had the rea… --- ## [Proposal: Attributable Consensus Solution for DV Clusters](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters/104)
**Author:** [@albert\_garreta](https://community.obol.org/u/albert_garreta)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-attributable-consensus-solution-for-dv-clusters/104 "2024-01-15T13:33:37Z")
Background The performance of validators run by a DV cluster depends on the cluster operators doing their jobs successfully and timely. However, these validators may exhibit good performance metrics even if some operator… --- ## [Obol DVT on Cosmos](https://community.obol.org/t/obol-dvt-on-cosmos/83)
**Author:** [@Mikey\_Cosmostation](https://community.obol.org/u/Mikey_Cosmostation)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/obol-dvt-on-cosmos/83 "2023-06-21T07:11:16Z")
Hey guys, this is Mikey Lee from Cosmostation - Cosmostation is an enterprise-level crypto infrastructure company operating validator nodes and building user interfaces for ~70 networks and 500k+ users globally. Since 20…