The 2025 Staking Landscape Survey from EthStaker is now open! Fill it out here. The survey collects a snapshot of the staking landscape and community sentiment. It also shows where advocacy efforts are making an impact or are needed. Most sensitive questions are optional, so you can leave them blank if you prefer. Note that this survey is for anyone to fill out, even non-stakers. Anonymized results data and analysis will be published and open sourced. See past EthStaker survey raw data here a...

EthStaker is proud to announce that we will be taking over maintenance of Rated's solo staker list. We believe identifying solo stakers is important for monitoring the health of the network and useful for second order incentives such as airdrops. Rated recently published their last update up to validator index 1,500,000. EthStaker's first update is planned for July 1st, 2025 using Rated's methodology. After this point we expect to update the list quarterly. The solo staker list will be publis...

Ethereum solo stakers were surveyed (n=125) for a sentiment check about their experiences with node bandwidth capacity, usage, monitoring, and whether they would anticipate adverse impacts if requirements were increased in future protocol updates. This survey is limited in scope and was intended as a pulse check on the specific bandwidth subject. For a more exhaustive survey of solo stakers that EthStaker conducted in early 2024, see the Ethereum Staking Survey 2024 published on July 2, 2024.

Solo stakers were surveyed for information that gives better visibility into their profiles, demographics, pain points, and motivations.

Becoming a node operator to safeguard the Ethereum protocol requires reliable and top-quality infrastructure. For some individuals, achieving this at...

Who cares about defining a "solo staker"? Airdrops to solo stakers have a lot of people talking about the definition of a "solo staker"...

Newly implemented client features serve for more granularity and expressivity with regards to payload preference for stakers.

tl;dr - Even with lower-bond DVT validators, many people can't justify buying hardware. This 10-week pilot program aims to create and subsidize hardware for new node operators

Hey there EthStakers!The moment you've all been waiting for is finally here - tickets for the Staking Gathering event are officially on sale! This is ...

tl;dr: clientdiversity.org has removed ethernodes data and now only shows execution-diversity.info data. This is because the two datasets are not compa...