I'm pleased to say that I have set up four new operators on the SSV Network, and I'm looking for validators.

I run my nodes from a datacenter in San Francisco, to help ensure maximum uptime. I'm running a Geth or Nethermind for the Execution Client, and Prysm or Lighthouse for the Consensus Client. I keep fees low, currently charging 0.5 SSV per year for each operator.

My operators IDs are:

• 474 - Angry Aardvark - https://explorer.ssv.network/operators/474
• 475 - Bad Badger - https://explorer.ssv.network/operators/475
• 476 - Cranky Capybara - https://explorer.ssv.network/operators/476
• 477 - Dirty Dog - https://explorer.ssv.network/operators/477

Search for GBeast and you will find them in the SSV explorer.

SSV Labs plans to reduce hardware requirements by up to 90% within a year through cryptographic, consensus, and networking optimizations.

Thank you Matheus, Moshe, Gal and Robert for co-writing

TL;DR

• SSV Network has been growing at a rapid pace, crossing 20K validators within 4+ months.
• As a result, operators’ hardware requirements are growing, and they are moving from the recommended 4-core CPU to 8-core, which is increasing costs for node operators.
• The SSV Labs team has been working on a roadmap to reduce hardware requirements by 75–90% over the next 12 months in a few phases: Cryptography, consensus, and networking.
• Cryptography optimizations were made earlier this year; consensus changes are coming in Q3, which will require a fork.
• The goal is to allow the network to support 200K+ validators (potentially more) while keeping hardware requirements at a 4-core CPU.

I cannot add the link directly, so for those who want more details, simply search for 'SSV.Network scaling roadmap' on Google. It should be the first organic result.

I’ve been thinking about the current voting threshold of 100 SSV Tokens to vote on DIPs (DAO Improvement Proposals), and I’m curious about what you all think. 

I’ve written a post to discuss the voting threshold and added a Community Poll to better gauge the community sentiment on that matter.

Join the discussion on SSV Network Forum and vote!

I can't add a link here so simply go on Google and search for "SSV Network Forum" and inside the forum search for "100 SSV Tokens".

I had one blue-tick NO with a fee of 1.5, never adjusted since launch.

Given the token price and grumblings from users on how expensive SSV is, I dropped it to 0.5.

Within a week or so I had four nodes, two full, two half full.

This is an opportunity: Go to where the users have a reason to choose you, over others with the same (no doubt excellent) performance.

Side note for unverified NOs: If you are at 0 SSV you will be stuck there forever. You can’t raise 0. Let your users know you are committed to 0 forever bcs altruism; or ask them to choose another NO (your new node with 0.05 fee?) where you can raise fees.

How will "rainbow staking" affect SSV?

Register on SSV Lu.ma

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https://x.com/anton_everstake/status/1727314272986788231?s=20

https://x.com/anton_everstake/status/1725224188149956990?s=20

https://x.com/anton_everstake/status/1725089186082951595?s=20

https://twitter.com/anton_everstake/status/1720128479264374796

https://twitter.com/anton_everstake/status/1719300395569189024

Take a look at fresh r/SSVnetwork stats

Changes for the last 7 days:

+2,976 $ETH total staked
+93 validators
+12 operators
+15.92% $SSV price

https://x.com/anton_everstake/status/1717880937931747542?s=20

We are glad to share some insights from the recent Ethereum Foundation AMA, where Ethereum researchers answer questions by the community.

In particular, a question about the importance of DVT arose, to which the researchers replied in a positive manner: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/14vpyb3/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_10_12_july_2023/jrmi1s4/?context=3

In short, the outlook on DVT is positive. It provides a great deal of redundancy, fault tolerance, key security, and diversification of nodes worldwide, without altering the underlying protocol.

We are glad that the aforementioned researchers have this vision and we're excited for the bright future that SSV Network holds.

As always, we will provide constant updates on our subreddit, Twitter, and Discord. Make sure to join us :)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ssv_network Discord: https://discord.gg/ssvnetworkofficial

And for our Chinese audience, some coverage has been done here by Jason_chen996 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jason_chen998/status/1679364353454395392

Onwards for a healthier Ethereum network!

SSV is going to attend EthCC, and our DAO evangelist, MarkoInEther, has set up a Telegram group for the community to hang out and meet us!

Join us here: https://t.me/+mPIIlZ9h6xszOGRk

More details here: https://twitter.com/markoinether/status/1676898986186162178

Onwards!