We are very proud to announce the release of Charon v1.0.0 after 3 years of development, testing, and Mainnet adoption!  💪

This transitions distributed validators (DVs) from an early technology to one ready to be the standard for ALL #Ethereum validators.

We are very proud to announce the release of Charon v1.0.0 after 3 years of development, testing, and Mainnet adoption!  💪

This transitions distributed validators (DVs) from an early technology to one ready to be the standard for ALL #Ethereum validators. 

https://blog.obol.org/releasing-charon-1-0/

Since the first Mainnet DV activation 18 months ago, Charon has made significant progress in ETH Mainnet adoption:

🎯 $1.5B+ being deployed to DVs by @lidofinance & @ether-fi 
 to diversify and decentralise their operator sets
🎯 175+ DV operators
🎯 DVs running in 35+ countries

Scaling and decentralising Ethereum through the development and deployment of distributed validators.

❓What is Charon and Charon 1.0?

Charon is the world's first DV middleware client.

Charon 1.0 is the first long-term support (LTS) version of Charon, which will remain compatible with future releases and serve as a foundation for large-scale use cases and deployments of DVs.

Charon 1.0 marks the next phase of our journey, where we will rapidly scale the number of validators run as Obol DVs within all segments of the Ethereum staking ecosystem. 📈

Testnet phases 🧪

From 2022-2024, Charon endured rigorous testing that confirmed DVs running Charon could achieve performance on par with that of traditional validators, even with a diverse set of:

📌 Node operators (professional and home)
📌 Clients and hardware
📌 Geographies

🔐 Security & Audits

Charon has been thoroughly assessed for the highest security standards.

Multiple assessments & audits have been completed on the Obol product suite:

🔐 Security & Audits

Charon has been thoroughly assessed for the highest security standards.

Multiple assessments & audits have been completed on the Obol product suite: https://docs.obol.org/docs/next/sec/overview

🙏 A special thank you to everyone who helped on our journey to reach this milestone, including:

🛠️ Core developers
🤝 Ecosystem partners: staking protocols, DV tooling, DV client teams, validator operators
👔 Investors and advisors
🎓 Educators and researchers

What is next?

We will soon have 1.0 releases for our other products:

🚀 DV Launchpad
🔀 Obol Splits
🛠️ Obol SDK

These releases will continue making DVs easier to deploy and adopted by more validators in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Attention all:

💧 Staking protocols
🏢 Professional operators
🏠 Community operators
🙋‍♂️ Solo stakers

Running DVs drastically improves resiliency, security, and decentralisation. Join us 🤝.

Connect w/ us to learn how to deploy DVs in your staking setup: https://airtable.com/apphbfJ552v5mH

Charon v1.0.0 release:

https://github.com/ObolNetwork/charon/releases/v1.0.0

If you are already running a v0.19.* version of Charon in a DV cluster, pay close attention to the migration notes and see our Discord if you have any questions.