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Ethereum Staking Deep Dive Part 1: Understanding Consensus Layer Rewards
Twinstake and Block Scholes have partnered to perform a deep dive into the rewards of Ethereum staking. Combining our staking experience & rich staking data sets, and Block Scholes’ deep, analytical crypto-research framework, we will build a solid understanding of Ethereum’s staking incentives, mechanisms, performance and risks from the ground up. Armed with this foundation, we intend to explore the future of institutional Ethereum staking.
This report is the second instalment of a three-part series, where we dive deep into:
Part 1: predictable workings of Consensus Layer rewards.
Part 2: exciting Execution Layer rewards, and the drivers of the high variance of their performance.
Please see below for the full report:
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Download the report to learn why validator selection, transaction routing and staking strategy are increasingly connected decisions for institutions, and what that means for due diligence.
It follows that journey chronologically: the early years in which validator performance was largely indistinguishable, the memecoin-driven demand shock of 2024 that exposed latency as the critical bottleneck, and the emergence of an execution layer built around MEV extraction, transaction routing and shred propagation. Client diversity, XDP kernel-bypass networking and the Alpenglow consensus overhaul are now closing the gap with centralised trading venues.
Download the report to learn why validator selection, transaction routing and staking strategy are increasingly connected decisions for institutions, and what that means for due diligence.
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