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Validators with no single point of failure.

Obol Distributed Validators split one Ethereum validator across a fault-tolerant cluster of nodes. Learn the technology, run a DV in production, or build on the SDK, API, and the agent-operated Obol Stack.

Run a DVLearn about Obol
obol@cluster:~
$ docker run obolnetwork/charon:v1.10.0 create enr
Created ENR private key: .charon/charon-enr-private-key
enr:-JG4QGQpV4qYe32QFUAbY1UyGNtNcrVMip83…
$ charon dkg --definition-file cluster-definition.json
✓ 4/4 operators connected
✓ distributed key generation complete
✓ cluster-lock.json written — your DV is ready
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Learn

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What Distributed Validator Technology is, how Charon coordinates a cluster, and why DVs are the staking endgame.

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Run a DV

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Create, activate, and operate a Distributed Validator — alone or with a group — on mainnet or Hoodi.

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Obol Stack

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An agent-operated harness for blockchain infrastructure: run networks, expose services, get paid over x402.

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Build

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Integrate DVs programmatically with the TypeScript SDK, the REST API, and the Charon CLI.

Popular guides

The pages operators reach for most.

Quickstart overviewCreate a Lido CSM DVCreate an EigenLayer DVMigrate an existing validatorTest a clusterExit a DVErrors & resolutionsClaim rewardsHandling DKG failure

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