Decentralized Ethereum 2.0 Staking with Rocket Pool | Darren Langley & Dave Rugendyke

<p>Rocket Pool is live on mainnet! Slowly rolling out its staking pools, Rocket Pool is opening up its decentralized ETH staking product to the world. Core team members Darren Langley and Dave Rugendyke join to talk about the past, present, and future of the protocol.</p> <p>Rocket Pool allows ETH holders to stake without needing to run a full node, which requires hardware, maintenance, and 32 ETH. Abstracting away those requirements helps to decentralize Ethereum's Proof-of-Stake, which is expected to arrive with the merge in the first half of 2022.</p> <p>------<br /> 📣 OPOLIS | YOUR CRYPTO CAREER<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Opolis">https://bankless.cc/Opolis</a> </p> <p>------<br /> 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: <a href= "http://podcast.banklesshq.com/">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a> </p> <p>------<br /> BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:</p> <p>⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum">https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum</a> </p> <p>🍵 MATCHA | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE AGGREGATOR<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Matcha">https://bankless.cc/Matcha</a> </p> <p>🔐 LEDGER | SECURE YOUR ASSETS<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/Ledger">https://bankless.cc/Ledger</a> </p> <p>🧙‍♀️ ALCHEMIX | SELF-PAYING LOANS<br /> <a href= "http://bankless.cc/Alchemix">http://bankless.cc/Alchemix</a> </p> <p>------<br /> TOPICS COVERED:</p> <p>0:00 Intro<br /> 7:00 Launching Rocket Pool<br /> 15:50 How We Got Here<br /> 23:38 Why Decentralized Staking?<br /> 28:37 What the Numbers Say<br /> 34:38 A Public Good<br /> 39:40 The Community<br /> 47:11 Centralization Risks?<br /> 49:25 rETH<br /> 56:04 Democratizing ETH Staking<br /> 1:02:39 DeFi Integrations<br /> 1:06:30 MEV<br /> 1:14:25 Operating a Node & ODAO<br /> 1:22:02 RPL Token & Incentives<br /> 1:32:02 What's Next?<br /> 1:38:20 Closing & Disclaimers</p> <p>------<br /> RESOURCES:</p> <p>Darren on Twitter:<br /> <a href= "https://twi