GM fellow staker,

It’s the end of the week and time to get your slice of weekly staking alpha. Let’s get it started…

🧵 In this Week’s Edition:

• 🤝 Ensuring Honesty In Blockchain Validators

• 📢 4 Days Until The LSTfi Summit...

• 📰 Weekly Briefing

• 👀 Staking Data API Now Live

• 📈 A New Milestone for ETH Staking

Read time: 3 minutes

🤝 Ensuring Honesty In Blockchain Validators

Validators - the the foundation of all POS networks. They are the ones that safeguard the blockchain’s sanctity and integrity.

As staking gains traction, understanding slashing is crucial.

But what exactly is Slashing? Short answer: It keeps validators in check.

As staking continues to evolve and new POS networks go to market, striking a balance between network safety, validator participation, and efficient consensus is hugely important.

This week we take an in-depth exploration of slashing, using Ethereum as a case study.

📢 4 Days Until The LSTfi Summit...

The LSTfi Summit is coming in hot!

We're bringing together some of the biggest LSTfi protocols and LST providers in the space, to discuss managing risk, boosting yields and what’s next for this new category of DeFi.

Speakers include reps from Lybra, Pendle, Raft, Yearn, Rocket Pool, Stakewise, Index Coop, Origin, Ethena, Asymetrix, Staking Rewards and Flashst

Stream the event live via our YouTube channel on Sep 5th at 10:00 GMT-4.

📰 Weekly Briefing

Here’s this week’s top news from the world of staking and crypto…

• Radix go live with final test network before the Babylon mainnet upgrade

• Stroom Raises $3.5M to Bring Liquid Staking to Bitcoin Lightning Network

• Bitstamp Ends Ethereum Staking for US Investors

• Ethereum staking services agree to 22% limit of all validators

• Lybra launches their v2 with support for more LSTs as collateral

• Stablecoin Protocol Prisma Finance Launches on Ethereum Mainnet

👀 Staking Data API Now Live

Calling all researchers, developers and analysts interested in Staking Data. The Staking Data API is now live!

Get instant access to unbiased live and historical staking data, across 60+ assets and 100k+ validators.

The API empowers you to:

• Query POS chains, inc. non EVM all in one place

• Uncover insights into the staking flow of different protocols, previously hidden or hard to deduce

• Gauge the demand for specific providers, enabling smarter decision-making

• Model the impact of staking dynamics on price movements

📈 A New Milestone for ETH Staking

Staking on Ethereum hit a new milestone this week 🥳

20% of the total supply of ETH is now staked! 📈

This percentage does not include the amount of ETH currently in the queue waiting to be staked. It only includes actively staked ETH which is contributing to network security.

👀 Last But Certainly Not Least

The Staking Summit is now officially only 2 months away!

🎟 Get tickets for this year’s Staking Summit

🎬 That’s a Wrap!

Thank you for taking the time to read the Staking Insider newsletter. Let us know what you thought of this week’s edition…

Disclaimer: None of this is financial advice. The Staking Insider newsletter is strictly for educational purposes and is not investment advice. Please be careful and always do your own researchO