{"id":17004,"date":"2024-09-16T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-highlights-the-benefits-of-solo-staking-in-ethereum\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:20:31","slug":"vitalik-buterin-highlights-the-benefits-of-solo-staking-in-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-highlights-the-benefits-of-solo-staking-in-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Highlights the Benefits of Solo Staking in Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solo staking in Ethereum is crucial for the security and decentralisation of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, according to its co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/vitalik-buterin-solo-staking-ethereum-security\">Cointelegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the expert, individual stakers form an uncoordinated and diverse group, reducing reliance on <span data-descr=\"centralised exchanges\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CEX<\/span>. Even a small proportion of them can add an important decentralised layer of protection for Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin also examined the role of solo stakers in 51% attack scenarios. He noted that the key difference lies in the extent of network control by the attacker: 50-56% or 57%+. In the latter case, block finalisation becomes possible, which could lead to forks, he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate such attacks, the Ethereum co-founder suggested the community raise the required block confirmation threshold from 2\/3 to 3\/4 or more of the coins staked.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Buterin announced a change in approach to mentioning L2 solutions. Starting next year, he will publicly discuss only projects at the &#8220;stage 1+&#8221; level.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, the Ethereum co-founder stated that he does not intend to invest in layer-two networks or other projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solo staking in Ethereum is crucial for the security and decentralisation of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, according to its co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, as reported by Cointelegraph. According to the expert, individual stakers form an uncoordinated and diverse group, reducing reliance on CEX. Even a small proportion of them can add an important decentralised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1289,46,1138,200],"class_list":["post-17004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-staking","tag-ethereum","tag-opinions","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"60","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}