One of the main goals of ether.fi from the beginning was to make the protocol outlive us, its main developers. Through a collective governance model, we believe we will keep the protocol open and in capable hands with vested interests.

In DVT Phase 1, we worked with our partners at Obol Labs to deliver secure mainnet DVT - verification shared by different individuals, none of whom has the full validator key. The second phase will move towards fully automated integration. Users will arrive, apply and start as individual stakers, unmanaged and unaided by ether.fi and Obol.

To further demonstrate our belief in the power of freedom and openness, we will continue to make our software services and code publicly available. We want to push others in the ecosystem to do the same.

eETH is ether.fi’s Liquid Stake token that will be launched within a month. With it, users will be able to participate in Ethereum staking in a completely permissionless manner, buying and selling pledged assets on demand.

As a further commitment to our belief in the Ethereum ecosystem, we have officially open sourced our smart contract suite. We believe this will increase the trust, quality, reliability and security of our protocol.

The above proof of concept has been partially automated with an eye towards full automation in the second phase below.

ether.fi joins forces with Obol Labs to launch the first DVT mainnet validator, which will then be included in the first batch of mainnet validators, which are run by a geographically dispersed group of small independent operators

ether.fi's decentralized application provides a secure path to stake personal ETH in 32 validator increments through a set of secure and verified node operators.