On this episode of Archebyte, we are joined by Collin Meyers, Founder of Obol Labs. The Obol Network is an ecosystem for trust minimized staking that enables people to create, test, run and coordinate distributed validators. 

Collin kicks off the episode by laying some groundwork and explaining the history of staking infrastructure and how it has led us to where we are today, post Ethereum Merge. We briefly discuss withdrawals and how they affect staking dynamics before diving deep into DVT - Distributed Validator Technology. Collin breaks down what DVT is, how it works, and what it can enable for validators as well as the crypto ecosystem at large. We discuss the challenges that at home validators face and Collin shares his advice for becoming an at home validator and overcoming these challenges. 

We close out our conversation as Collin looks to the future and shares what he’s excited to see develop in the crypto infrastructure space in the coming years as we acknowledge that blockchain tech is at its core one incredible use case of applied cryptography. 

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⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:56 Welcome Collin

1:28 History of staking infrastructure

6:05 How withdrawals will affect staking dynamics 

10:23 DVT: Distributed Validator Technology

11:49 How DVT works

13:45 What DVT unlocks for validators

23:07 How to become an at home validator 

25:28 The future of crypto infrastructure innovation

28:12 Outro

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