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15. Liquid staking + vampire attacks with Miguel Prada


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Miguel is the tech lead at Diva and CEO at Shamir Labs (the organization building Diva). In this episode, we discuss:

  • Today’s staking landscape
  • Challenges with staking
  • Distributed Validator Technology (DVT)
  • Under the hood of Diva
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    Timecodes

    0:00 Intro

    2:47 Miguel’s background

    4:47 What problem in Diva solving?

    6:51 Today’s liquid staking landscape

    9:24 The dangers of increasing centralized staked eth

    11:06 Distributed validator technology (DVT)

    11:59 Diva

    13:52 Cost to run a diva node

    17:30 Specifics of how Diva works

    25:07 Distributed key generation

    26:35 Choosing a cryptographic standard

    30:38 Side effects and benefits to working on Diva

    32:53 Incentivizing operators

    34:30 Diva tokens

    35:30 Rebasing alternative

    37:40 Closing thoughts

    42:38 Follow Miguel and Diva

    43:26 Outro


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