15. Liquid staking + vampire attacks with Miguel Prada

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15. Liquid staking + vampire attacks with Miguel Prada

Over Abstraction

43 minutes 56 seconds

1 year ago

15. Liquid staking + vampire attacks with Miguel Prada

Miguel is the tech lead at Diva and CEO at Shamir Labs (the organization building Diva). In this episode, we discuss:

Today’s staking landscape
Challenges with staking
Distributed Validator Technology (DVT)
Under the hood of Diva

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

2:47 Miguel’s background

4:47 What problem in Diva solving?

6:51 Today’s liquid staking landscape

9:24 The dangers of increasing centralized staked eth

11:06 Distributed validator technology (DVT)

11:59 Diva

13:52 Cost to run a diva node

17:30 Specifics of how Diva works

25:07 Distributed key generation

26:35 Choosing a cryptographic standard

30:38 Side effects and benefits to working on Diva

32:53 Incentivizing operators

34:30 Diva tokens

35:30 Rebasing alternative

37:40 Closing thoughts

42:38 Follow Miguel and Diva

43:26 Outro