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Oct 7, 2022 15 tweets 12 min read
Stepping into the first fully post-merge month got us reminiscing about all the special moments that took place in September.

Here’s our quick recap so we can soak it in one last time 👇
🧵1/15 Image The community gathered around numerous live watch parties to take part in #Ethereum’s successful (& deliciously uneventful) #PoS switch🎉 

During Nethermind’s live Merge Watch, teams & guests from every corner of the ecosystem came together-


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Sep 30, 2022 17 tweets 3 min read
The @LidoFinance transition to permissionless liquid staking is a crucial step in upholding Ethereum's principle of credible neutrality.

What are the available options for stakers, which ones benefit the health of the network, and what’s the ideal staking mechanism? 🧵 1/17 In this thread, we focus on liquid staking options. Self-staking (run your own validator) and delegated-staking (let someone else run the validator) suffer from two drawbacks: steep entry price (32 ETH) & illiquidity of the staked funds. 2/17