On Ep. 41 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder of CryptoManufaktur, about a new proposal to improve the viability of solo staking on Ethereum.

Guests:

Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker

https://x.com/nixorokish

Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder and CEO of Cryptomanufaktur

https://x.com/yorickdowne

Show note links:

Timestamps:

(00:00:10) Intro

(00:00:56) Galaxy Acquires CryptoManufaktur

(00:06:45) Orbit SSF Overview

(00:11:04) Skepticism About Orbit SSF

(00:13:19) What is Single Slot Finality?

(00:18:16) Validator Dynamics Under Orbit SSF

(00:22:00) How Orbit SSF Helps Solo Validators

(00:28:31) Design Space Recap for Reducing Validator Set Size

(00:31:51) Anti-Correlation Penalties, EIP 7716

(00:33:45) Outro

This episode was recorded on Friday, August 2, 2024.

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