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What is the Obol Collective?
The Obol Collective is a collection of tools, teams, and communities dedicated to scaling Ethereum by strengthening the security, resiliency, and decentralisation of the consensus layer through the development and deployment of distributed validators. The Distributed Validator middleware client, Charon, boosts the security, resilience, and decentralisation of the Ethereum validator network by enabling “squad staking”. The Collective is fueled by Obol’s economic model, which directs 1% of staking rewards from DVs to ecosystem projects via retroactive funding - a positive flywheel to accelerate adoption of DVs and scale the consensus layer.
The list of Obol Collective participants includes 50+ staking protocols, client teams, software tools, education & community projects, professional node operators, home operators, and stakers, including names like EigenLayer, Lido, EtherFi, Figment, Bitcoin Suisse, Stakewise, Nethermind, Blockdaemon, Chorus One, DappNode, and many more. Learn more at Obol.org.
Sustainable Public Goods
Obol is inspired by previous work on Ethereum public goods and experimenting with circular economics. We believe that to unlock innovation in staking use cases, a credibly neutral layer must exist for innovation to flow and evolve vertically. The Obol staking stack consists of four core public goods:
Obol’s staking stack consists of four core public goods:
- Charon, a middleware client that enables validators to run in a fault-tolerant, distributed manner;
- The Distributed Validator Launchpad, a user interface for configuring Distributed Validators;
- Obol Splits, a set of solidity smart contracts for the distribution of rewards from Distributed Validators;
- Obol SDK & API, allowing Distributed Validator clusters to be configured and run at scale, for example within staking protocols.
The launch of the Obol Collective began the journey to becoming an open, community governed, self-sustaining project. Together we will incentivize, build, and maintain distributed validator technology that makes public networks a more secure and resilient foundation to build on top of. Read more about our economic model in our One Percent For Decentralisation announcement.