You’ve already attempted to run your own validator on the Medalla testnet. You’ve tried to follow instructions provided by the Ethereum Foundation and community members (I, II, III, IV) but couldn’t manage to spin up your nodes. …

Missed Part 1? Read it here. Deep dive into Ethereum 2.0 rewards, penalties and slashing Let’s now discuss how the numbers affecting your validator’s ETH balance get calculated. A key unit of account that will frequently appear is base_reward.¹

I can’t believe it’s only been a little bit over 3 months, but I remember the day in June when DeFi websites started failing to respond. Like many others, I had a mini panic attack. I found out later that the cause was that The Graph was experiencing some issues. …

So you have made it here after reading through the Beginner’s guide to Ethereum 2.0! Are you ready to learn more about Ethereum 2.0? The following advanced sections will go into detail on how exactly Proof of Stake works and how some of the staking numbers are calculated. There are…

You have some idea about Ethereum 2.0 (hopefully after reading our blog post). You know Phase 0, the launch of the Beacon Chain, is coming soon. You know it’s a groundbreaking upgrade. You know you’ll be able to stake. But, why should you stake in the first place? Are there…

What is Ethereum 2.0? Ethereum 2.0 is an ambitious multi-year network upgrade of Ethereum. Ethereum today has scalability issues with centralization concerns on how it is being secured. The upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 attempts to achieve better scalability, security and decentralization. Take a read through the design goals outlined on Ethereum 2.0’s official spec…

The past 6 months of grant.fish It has already been 6 months since we first launched our grant.fish program and validator. We have been delivering the staking rewards from the grant.fish validator to our first grantees: Everett Protocol and Unslashed. In total, grant.fish has delivered 2,441 ATOMs to the two grantees. Additionally, the grant.fish validator has…

We have some news to share with our community today. After some consideration, we have decided to halt our validators on Loom Network and BOS. Since this is a big decision, we wanted to communicate this clearly to our community members. Why we supported these projects Loom Network was one of the first projects we…

As we reviewed some of our past content, we uncovered a gem from the past year when the first ever incentivized testnet, the Game of Stakes, was nearing its conclusion. Oh, how the times were different then! stakefish was doing business under bitfish and we had only two validator nodes…