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Exploring Bitcoin Liquid Staking protocols: key players and ecosystem insights

January 21, 2025

Exploring Bitcoin Liquid Staking protocols: key players and ecosystem insights

Glenn Brown

EigenLayer unveils rewards v2 and slashing for 2025

January 15, 2025

EigenLayer unveils rewards v2 and slashing for 2025

This article explores these upcoming upgrades in detail and examines their potential impact on the restaking ecosystem.‍

Martin Germain

Introduction to Solana clients

December 16, 2024

Introduction to Solana clients

Explore the advancements of Solana validator clients in this article from Kiln. Learn about the key software powering the Solana network and its impact on decentralization and performance.

Kiran Nedumkallel

Kiran Nedumkallel

Next Ethereum upgrade: How Pectra will enhance the staking experience

October 24, 2024

Next Ethereum upgrade: How Pectra will enhance the staking experience

The Ethereum network is gearing up for the Pectra upgrade, scheduled for Q1 2025. This upgrade promises significant enhancements to the staking landscape and a host of ambitious improvements.

Sébastien Rannou

Sébastien Rannou

Navigating staking in the digital assets ecosystem: a whitepaper for industry and policymakers

October 10, 2024

Navigating staking in the digital assets ecosystem: a whitepaper for industry and policymakers

Discover the role of staking in blockchain security with our whitepaper. Learn the key models, and policy insights for a secure ecosystem. Download now!

Claire Wells

EigenLayer's transformation: a summary of the protocol’s recent updates

September 4, 2024

EigenLayer's transformation: a summary of the protocol’s recent updates

Explore EigenLayer's Q3 2024 upgrades enhancing efficiency, cutting costs, and expanding restaking options with new token support. Impact your staking today!

Martin Germain

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 3: Consensus-layer Diversity

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 3: Consensus-layer Diversity

Explore Ethereum consensus client diversity with Kiln. Understand the risks and strategies to ensure network stability and validator safety in this detailed analysis.

Sébastien Rannou

Sébastien Rannou

The Operational Costs of EigenLayer Native Restaking, by Kiln and Coinshares

The Operational Costs of EigenLayer Native Restaking, by Kiln and Coinshares

This analysis explores the high operational costs of native restaking on EigenLayer, detailing future upgrades for improved profitability and efficiency.

Benoit from CoinShares and Martin from Kiln

Benoit from CoinShares and Martin from Kiln

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 2: Execution-layer Diversity

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 2: Execution-layer Diversity

Discover the importance of Ethereum client diversity, focusing on the execution layer to boost network security and resilience.

Sébastien Rannou

Sébastien Rannou

Near: Offering performance and cost efficiency to rollups through a Super Fast Finality Layer

Near: Offering performance and cost efficiency to rollups through a Super Fast Finality Layer

Discover Near's Fast Finality AVS in the latest Kiln podcast with Edgar Roth and Altan Tutar. Learn how Near enhances rollup performance and cross-chain transactions.

Edgar Roth

Exploring EigenLayer AVSs: Major Contributors and Ecosystem Overview

Exploring EigenLayer AVSs: Major Contributors and Ecosystem Overview

An overview of the EigenLayer ecosystem and the major AVSs coming live.

Edgar Roth

eoracle: Bringing more transparency and decentralization into the oracle market

eoracle: Bringing more transparency and decentralization into the oracle market

Join Edgar Roth from Kiln and Matan Si of eoracle in the latest Kiln Restaking Rendez-Vous podcast for an in-depth look at eoracle AVS and blockchain oracles.

Edgar Roth

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 1: Consensus & Finalization

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 1: Consensus & Finalization

Dive in Ethereum's Consensus and Execution layers diversity through a series of posts based on Kiln's research. Learn about how they work and the risks they can pose to the network.

Sébastien Rannou

Sébastien Rannou

Last articles

The Operational Costs of EigenLayer Native Restaking, by Kiln and Coinshares

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 2: Execution-layer Diversity

Near: Offering performance and cost efficiency to rollups through a Super Fast Finality Layer

eoracle: Bringing more transparency and decentralization into the oracle market

Exploring EigenLayer AVSs: Major Contributors and Ecosystem Overview

Ethereum Client Diversity Part 1: Consensus & Finalization

Exploring Bitcoin staking: key players and ecosystem insights

Silence Laboratories: Enabling secure computations and MPC for wallets and apps

Introducing Near Validator Watcher: enhancing monitoring capabilities for Near validators

Blockless: enabling complex applications in Web3 with decentralized trust computing

Hyperlane: Connecting applications across multiple chains

Witness Chain: Securing Rollups, DePIN, and AI Coprocessors

Lagrange: Deep dive into rollups

February 27, 2024

EigenDA: Teddy Knox on Data Availability

February 20, 2024

AltLayer: Restaked rollups: key takeaways from Amrit Kumar

February 13, 2024