Are Solo Stakers Valuable for Censorship Resistance?
summary
Solo stakers are a small share of total stake but often a large share of nodes, reported as 35–75% of nodes vs ~6.5% of validators, and they act as a permissionless audit fallback rather than the day-to-day censorship gate. Most validators (about 95% use mev-boost) push censorship risk to builders/relays; solo operators can mitigate by building local blocks or using the min bid flag. Recommendations: more tooling, education and multilingual docs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Solo stakers and their role
- 1:06Large entities and censorship risk
- 2:28Solo vs large entity differences
- 3:53Solo staker profiles
- 5:15Liquid staking limits
- 6:20Client diversity impact
- 8:05Network health priorities
- 9:52Solo staker geography
- 10:35Risk aversion in staking
- 11:38Solo stakers' values
- 11:59Censorship resistance fallback
- 12:41Solo staker support
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