Hey bankless nation welcome to another state of the nation episode we're super excited

to host this has been a long time coming it's with our friends at rocket pool rocket

pool David why don't you tell folks what rocket pool is yeah rocket pool is a decentralized

taking as a service system and rocket pool has been around for a really long time I remember

paying attention to rocket pool back during the the ICO craze the ICO days and rocket pool

has you know it's been laser focused on one thing and one thing alone which is providing

a decentralized staking pool system to in further democratize and decentralize access

to providing security for ethereum so we're going to dive into what that means and this

story thus far for rocket pool and but also most importantly their main net launch which

is why we're having them on right now their main net just launched so congratulations

to the to the rocket pool community and rocket pool team and Dave and Darren who have

been through it all all throughout the bear market and then finally went through got

through the other side of the bear market waiting for all of the ethereum 2 devs to actually

ship proof of stake and now that is finally here rocket pool is following along in the footsteps

of ethereum at large so I think this is probably the next best thing to staking on your own

validator in fact it's probably the best thing for a lot of folks because staking on your in

your own validator still requires 32 eath that's a lot of money man like 32 eath so if you don't

have 32 eath and you still want to stake the decentralized way rocket pool is providing an answer

to that and so we're going to talk to the team today all about it and talk about the wider

eth staking ecosystem too so we hope you hang out for this conversations can be great with

David and Darren from rocket pool before we get in we got to tell you about opolis I think this

one of the last days that we're going to be talking about this opolis is a dow that supports self

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