Shanghai makes life harder for Staking as a Service Providers, and Kraken gets put on the naughty step
The Shanghai upgrade, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announcement re Kraken being fined $30 Million USD, and having to close all staking operations, and what these mean for Staking as a Service providers, have been on my mind this week. I’ll talk about these things in this update. Secular stagnation is on my mind, […]
2023: What will Ethereum look like in a world with high interest rates?
I know I’m in the minority. I see Ethereum as a shared database where a currency emerges from the requirement to incentivise good sharing; most see it as a volatile asset class. What is the outlook for Ethereum in 2023? As is our norm, let’s start with the data. 15,903,886 TOTAL ETH STAKED 496,996.438 TOTAL […]
Ethereum Staking as a Service Providers: Under pressure
Firstly let me start by saying Staking as a Service providers are an important and useful part of the Ethereum staking ecosystem. They are good people doing good work and I wish all of them wealth and health. However, as we have seen customers move away from Staking as a Service providers to become solo […]
An Introduction to Impact Staking
Hello Solo Stakers Launchnodes was founded in April 2020. In part, because the founding team thought it would be a great way to earn some jake (English slang for money), but also because I saw that staking could be a revolutionary tool to: Create local and interest group-based banks (so think Basingstoke Bank, or the […]
The Gilt God, NFT Houses and N.W.A on the importance of block explorer analysis
Hello solo stakers Let us start with the data as of 25th October TOTAL ETHEREUM STAKED – 15,232,925 TOTAL VALIDATORS – 449,712 CURRENT APR ~ 4.0% The Merge has happened and everyone wants to know what it means. For regulation, for staking, for the price of Ethereum and obviously Solana :). Life ain’t nothin’ but […]
Billy Joel’s Post Merge Analysis and a Tactical Nuclear strike for Christmas
I hope everyone had a good summer. Let’s start with the data and stay with it a bit longer than normal before we go to the narrative. Total ETH staked 14,710,982 ETH Total validators 434,898 Current APR 4% As of 15-September at 06:46:46 UTC, at Ethereum block height 15,537,393, the final PoW mined block was […]
There but for the Grace of Geth Goes the Merge
Hello Let’s start with some data Data Active Validators 405,229 Staked Ether 12,967,218 ETH = $13.5 Billion USD Average Balance 33.61 ETH “I told you so”, regarding the market bloodbath, the challenges of stable coins and how crypto in general will look like a tech stock when interest rates rise, is not an interesting insight. […]
Is public cloud a form of digital Crack and could an Ethereum powered De-Cloud help
Hi Having been very gritty and into the detail, in previous posts, I thought it might be useful to zoom out. Before we do that, let’s do the data. 13,397,520 TOTAL ETH STAKED 399,386 TOTAL VALIDATORS 4.2% CURRENT APR The $48 Billion of Ethereum TVL DeFi activity continues to trundle upwards despite a market bloodbath. […]
What is the inclusion or Priority fee and post-merge how do you make sure you get it
Hi So here is another digestible and useful bit of information relating to the merge, that uses the latest language the Ethereum core dev team are using. If you have any questions or want more information on what is below, please feel free to reach out to me. Or if you challenge if this is […]
Simple and useful information relating to the Merge : wtf is the execution layer?
Irrational exuberance/everyone losing their sh1t re the upcoming Merge, is great to watch. Everyone involved in pushing code that works and is useful to production, in any given scenario, is a hero in my book. Those that are pushing the decentralised future of finance and a new general purpose technology to production deserve the spotlight. […]
