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Devcon Bogotá, Oct 11 → 14

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Co-founder of Obol Labs and building Distributed Validator Technology for Ethereum.

Oisín Kyne

Many stakers set up their validators nearly two years ago, and will soon need to revisit them to obtain the rewards they have earned since.

This panel provides a refresher for what stakers did, and why they did it.  It discusses protecting mnemonics and keys, and what can be done if they are misplaced or compromised.

Bringing together experts on validating key creation, protection and use, this is a wide-ranging discussion that will be useful for all stakers and potential stakers.

Talk 1

Adrian is an escapee from the world of centralised finance but is now making amends by contributing to the Ethereum core protocol as a Lead Blockchain Protocol Engineer at ConsenSys.  He is a core dev on both the consensus and execution layers, leading development of ConsenSys Teku and contributing to Hyperledger Besu. When he's not coding he can be found discussing Ethereum and answering questions on pretty much all the Discord servers, and Telegram chat rooms and…

Adrian Sutton

Co-founder of Sigma Prime and Lighthouse. Proud contributor to Ethereum Proof-of-Stake.

Paul Hauner

Vasiliy Shapovalov

"It's 10pm, do you know where your mnemonic is?"

The Node Operator Association presents a roundtable discussion on promoting small and independent professional stakers. Topics include operator qualifications, application processes, costs, risks, each platform's unique advantages, and their vision for the future of Ethereum staking.

Panelists: 
Darren Langley (Rocket Pool)
Vasiliy Shapovalov (Lido)
Oisin Kyne (Obol)
Jordan Sutcliffe (Stakewise)
Ariel Zimroni (SSV Network)

Talk 4

VP Product @ BloxStaking, developing ssv.network decentralized infrastructure for Ethereum staking.

Ariel Zimroni

Darren Langley is the General Manager of Rocket Pool. He is passionate about Ethereum and staking. He is dedicated to lowering the barriers-to-entry for Ethereum staking so that everyone can participate.

Darren Langley

Jordan Sutcliffe

Ken Smith is the founder of NextBlock Solutions, a blockchain consulting company that provides training and educational services to web3 organizations. Ken is an Ethereum node operator using the RocketPool protocol and a member of the Node Operators Association (@NodeOperators) and has been active in the Ethereum and other blockchain communities since 2014.

Ken Smith

Mike is an entrepreneur with a software engineering and business background. In 2019, he founded Bamboo Financial Technologies to provide Ethereum-based investment products, and in 2022 he co-founded the Node Operator Association, an industry group aiming to improve the health of the Ethereum network by promoting decentralization in the burgeoning professional staking industry.

Mike Leach

Promoting Small and Independent Stakers: Q&A with the Ethereum Staking Protocols

The proof of stake Ethereum specs are designed to encourage decentralization by punishing centralization. 

In this session, we will discuss how to design Distributed Validator Technology in a way that minimizes correlation risk by using design choices across distributed key generation, middleware, networking topology, and versioning. We'll also describe why creating a trust-minimized, non-custodial, and non-correlated architecture is the most healthy way to enable multi-operator staking.

Collin is the co-founder & CEO of Obol Labs, a R&D-focused team developing a protocol for trust-minimized staking. Before Obol, Collin led global product strategy at ConsenSys and was the global head of BD at Token Foundry.