Ethereum is the world's computer, and it is a complex one. Factors ranging from design choices to the fact that it’s by far the chain securing the most value (more than 50 billion in assets from Mainnet and all L2s combined) have shown how far ahead Ethereum is with some very particular dynamics arising, such as MEV, restocking, and others.

While excellent resources already exist to understand these dynamics (e.g., Rated, Dotpics.info, or StakingRewards), we seem to be missing the figure of an actor who can contribute to the (re)staking ecosystem with independent, transparent, and verifiable insights. This is just like what L2Beat does for Layer 2 technologies, raising the bar for projects and increasing confidence in these solutions.

We took matters into our own hands, and we’re now proud to announce the MVP of Stakelens, an open-source analytics and research platform for the Ethereum staking ecosystem.

This is the beginning of a long journey that starts with Liquid Staking Protocols (LSPs), a segment that’s grown enormously, but with little to no understanding of their underlying mechanisms and contracts, doesn’t seem like stakers have a real understanding of how exactly their Ether deposits flow through the LSP—and that’s a big issue.

Today our MVP shows the TVL in ETH/USD of the major LSPs, but our vision goes far beyond that. Here’s what Stakelens is about:

• Project summaries: Clear, concise overviews of each staking solutions, including Liquid (Re)Staking Providers, Restaking platforms and more.

• Analytics: multiple data points and statistics, including TVL with historical data, and validator-related statistics for Ethereum in general, but also specific to all listed projects.

• Technical Insights: Smart contracts, failover mechanisms or dependency trees taken from what’s actually deployed onchain.

• Risk Assessments: smart contract upgradeability, governance risks, withdrawal mechanisms and other protocol-specific factors.

• Open-source: our website, indexers (you’ll hear about this soon™️ 👻🦀), and all present and future work of Stakelens is open source. This means you can use, fork, and run the entire dashboard locally without depending on external paid APIs.

We’ve just started shipping, and there’s a lot of work ahead of us. Stay tuned for:

• Better and more analytics

• In-depth project insights

• More protocols 🫡

Start digging into staking with our MVP live at stakelens.com.

Ethereum is the world's computer, and it is a complex one. Factors ranging from design choices to the fact that it’s by far the chain securing the most value (more than 50 billion in assets from Mainnet and all L2s combined) have shown how far ahead Ethereum is with some very particular dynamics arising, such as MEV, restocking, and others.

While excellent resources already exist to understand these dynamics (e.g., Rated, Dotpics.info, or StakingRewards), we seem to be missing the figure of an actor who can contribute to the (re)staking ecosystem with independent, transparent, and verifiable insights. This is just like what L2Beat does for Layer 2 technologies, raising the bar for projects and increasing confidence in these solutions.

We took matters into our own hands, and we’re now proud to announce the MVP of Stakelens, an open-source analytics and research platform for the Ethereum staking ecosystem.

This is the beginning of a long journey that starts with Liquid Staking Protocols (LSPs), a segment that’s grown enormously, but with little to no understanding of their underlying mechanisms and contracts, doesn’t seem like stakers have a real understanding of how exactly their Ether deposits flow through the LSP—and that’s a big issue.

Today our MVP shows the TVL in ETH/USD of the major LSPs, but our vision goes far beyond that. Here’s what Stakelens is about:

• Project summaries: Clear, concise overviews of each staking solutions, including Liquid (Re)Staking Providers, Restaking platforms and more.

• Analytics: multiple data points and statistics, including TVL with historical data, and validator-related statistics for Ethereum in general, but also specific to all listed projects.

• Technical Insights: Smart contracts, failover mechanisms or dependency trees taken from what’s actually deployed onchain.

• Risk Assessments: smart contract upgradeability, governance risks, withdrawal mechanisms and other protocol-specific factors.

• Open-source: our website, indexers (you’ll hear about this soon™️ 👻🦀), and all present and future work of Stakelens is open source. This means you can use, fork, and run the entire dashboard locally without depending on external paid APIs.

We’ve just started shipping, and there’s a lot of work ahead of us. Stay tuned for:

• Better and more analytics

• In-depth project insights

• More protocols 🫡

Start digging into staking with our MVP live at stakelens.com.