Useful Links

The following is a curated list of the best internal and external resources for using, creating, running, building, and researching Distributed Validators. To add to this list, please open a pull request.

Deposit Interfaces

• Chorus One
• Stakely
• Mellow

Launchers and Deployment Tooling

• Dappnode
• Stereum
• Sedge
• Obol CDVN
• Obol K8s
• Obol Helm Charts
• Obol Ansible Playbooks
• Terraform Charon Relay
• Terraform Grafana Charon dashboards

Quickstart Guides

• Run a DV alone
• Run a DV as a group
• Run a DV using the SDK

Security and Best Practices

• Audits
• Security repo
• Security Docs Page
• Best practices doc
• Status Page

Security Audits and Assessments

• A review of Obol Labs development processes by Ethereal Ventures
• A security assessment of Charon by Sigma Prime.
• A solidity audit of the Obol Splits contracts by Zach Obront.
• Charon Threat model
• QuantStamp Charon audit Q4 2023
• A security assessment of Charon's editability features by Trail of Bits.

Research and Development

• Nethermind research papers via the Obol Network Research Forum
  • Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing-based Distributed Key Generation
  • Key Refresh Scheme for DV operators
  • BFT protocol that can mutate its operator set in a byzantine setting
  • Using DV clusters for encrypted transaction mempools
  • Attributable Consensus Solution for DV Clusters Part I, Part II, Part III, Appendix
• Obol-Lido Splits Dune Dashboard