It's been a celebratory week for crypto with Bitcoin hitting all time highs after the US election results have rolled out. President elect Trump and the US republican party have been more embracing of crypto, so there is good reason for this optimism. Here are some of my baseline expectations for the staking and validator landscape (please do note that I'm no legal expert).

Welcome to another week of Validator digest! I've been compiling a list of new L1s that have yet to launch (it's an old habit back from my stakefish days). I wanted to share one interesting number: 42%. That's the percentage of new L1s that are launching using CometBFT and/or Cosmos SDK. This is validation of Cosmos' efforts in building out a protocol stack that can be deployed with extreme ease.

Welcome to another week of the Validator digest! Blockworks has released an insightful report (funded by Obol and Liquid Collective) surveying institutions on their thoughts on Ethereum staking. I wanted to highlight a few things that caught my eye.66% of respondents said they were familiar with Distributed Validator (DV) technology.

Welcome to another week of Validator digest! The biggest announcement this past week came from the Uniswap team who unveiled a new L2 dedicated to DeFi, Unichain. Most interestingly, they have announced from the get-go that they will have validators play a role in providing fast finality. Will this finally be the signal of many more L2s to decentralize their stack?