This document serves as your comprehensive guide to participating in Obol's Beta launch.

Below, you'll find a summary of Obol's developments, its unique benefits for different staking ecosystem participants, and key resources such as performance reports and security audits.



🖥️ What are Obol Distributed Validators (DVs)?

By enabling high-availability deployments for validator operations, DVs can improve the safety and liveness of Ethereum’s staking ecosystem while mitigating single-operator risks and reducing infrastructure costs.

Obol’s middleware client, Charon, is an implementation of distributed validator technology that addresses the following challenges Ethereum validators currently face:

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