Crypto enthusiast since the 2017 Ethereum ICO craze, been developing smart contracts, dapps and fiddling with Ethereum staking tools ever since. For the past few years, my interest was mostly in finding the most efficient and cheapest entry point to become an Ethereum staker, leveraging the newest ARM64 and recently, RISC-V boards.

My background is software engineering with more than 15 years of experience, mostly in the cloud computing area, Kubernetes and operating systems.

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The entry barrier to staking on Ethereum got lower, as ARM boards, the tooling and OS support have improved massively. We show the current landscape of hardware options and the software stack to go along with it. 
As a glimpse into the future we will talk about RISC-V, an open CPU architecture, present the current state of RISC-V based single board computers. We will discuss the progress we have made to run Ethereum nodes on these boards and the road ahead to optimize clients.