Silicon Skin in the Game: Staking from Retail to the Enterprise
summary
Validators report that 79% of SOL is staked, operators run 70 data centers across 10 clouds and offer institutional-grade tools like a multi-protocol staking wallet (Looney) and public APIs, plus a failover system claiming 99.999% uptime. Stake pools and KYC‑segregated institutional pools are live, slashing protection and governance tooling are being built, and community-driven validator education is already reducing bad deployments — practical infrastructure exists, but institutional compliance and risk controls remain the gating factors.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:45What is a validator
- 4:15Onchain governance
- 5:55Governance tools
- 7:48Staking landscape
- 10:35Who should run the validator
- 13:17How to run a validator
- 16:36What we think about validators
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