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Obol Collective

What is the Obol Collective?​

The Obol Collective is the largest Decentralized Operator Ecosystem. We provides the technology, opportunities, and community to scale decentralized infrastructure networks. 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.

Scaling Infrastructure Networks​

Obol is focused on scaling consensus by providing permissionless access to Distributed Validators (DVs), which offer not only protection against client issues and key mismanagement, but also byzantine fault tolerance. We believe that distributed validators should and will make up a large portion of mainnet validator configurations, with the transition of the Ethereum community to DVs enabling a new trust paradigm.

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 retroactive funding to ecosystem projects via retroactive funding - a positive flywheel to accelerate adoption of DVs and scale infrastructure networks like Ethereum.

What is DV Labs?​​

DV Labs (originally “Obol Labs”) is one of the core research and software development teams building DVT. DV Labs’ mission is to build shared web3 technologies for node operators, to establish a credibly neutral and trust-minimised infrastructure layer. DV Labs’ Distributed Validator middleware client, Charon, boosts security, resilience, and decentralisation by enabling “squad staking”. Learn more at DVLabs.tech.

The Obol Product Suite​

The Obol Product Suite empowers any node operator to run fault-tolerant, slashing-resistant distributed validators. Choose from a suite of tools to get distributed validators running on any type of hardware, with any combination of software clients.

  • Foundation: Charon, a middleware client that enables validators to run in a fault-tolerant, distributed manner;
  • Configuration: The Distributed Validator Launchpad, a user interface for configuring Distributed Validators. The Obol SDK & API, allowing Distributed Validator clusters to be configured and run at scale, for example within staking protocols.
  • Launchers: Obol Charon Distributed Validator Node (CDVN)
  • Rewards: Obol Splits, a set of solidity smart contracts for the distribution of rewards from Distributed Validators, amongst multiple node operations.