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New Non-custodial ETH staking via Stakewise v3


STAKE WITH A CRYPTO NATIVE

Ethereum Validator & Indexer for The Graph Protocol. Independently owned &
operated utilizing owned hardware.

My many years of experience in Ethereum, DevOps, cyber security, and software
development are the perfect combination of skills to have as an indexer and
validator.

VINCENT TAGLIA

vincenttaglia.eth

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About Me




I started my journey in 2012 as a sophomore in high school, learning software
development and being introduced to Bitcoin. By 2015, I was developing websites,
and that year I started interacting with a new blockchain called Ethereum. By
2016, I started to become active in the community by becoming a member of and
voting with The DAO. In 2017, I registered this ENS domain name. For the next
few years I focused on completing my Bachelor's in Computer Science from DePaul
University, as well as starting my Master's in Cyber Security.

In early 2021, I started validating the empty Ethereum Beacon Chain, and later
in 2021, I took some time to launch vincenttaglia.eth as an indexer for The
Graph protocol, starting with the minimum indexer stake and an expensive EPYC
server. Soon after I launched my personal indexer, I was approached to join the
Data Nexus team as CTO, where our focus would be a much larger indexer
deployment, as well as validating for various chains. Now, I operate two
indexers and 75+ validators.

Years Linux Experience 12+
Years Ethereum Experience 8+
Years ETH Validator Experience 2+
Years Indexing Experience 2+

My Goals




My goals are simple. In regards to Ethereum staking, I want to give my family,
friends, and anyone else that wants to join a non-custodial option for staking
ETH that is cheap, easy, trust-and-risk-minimized and that also promotes
decentralization, client diversity, and has a liquid staking option. To be
clear, while I take every precaution when staking, and while Stakewise has gone
through extensive audits for their v3 implementation, there are still risks with
staking with me via this protocol, just as there are unique risks for every
staking provider, custodial or not. You can take a closer look at the risks
associated with staking ETH below.

As for the goals of my personal indexer, I want to eventually support all of the
high query fee subgraphs from all relavent EVM chains, and by extension the
indexing technologies required to index them. Currently I can only support a few
select chains given the contstraints of my single server. I plan on maxing that
server out with storage in the short term, and eventually getting more servers
in order to support technologies like Firehose and Substreams, in addition to
more chains. Since the start I've had a focus on query fess, as evidenced by my
high mainnet query fee revenue ranking relative to the size of my indexer's
stake. That will continue as we move towards the sunsetting of the hosted
service.


ETH STAKING RISKS

Operator Slashing Risk Despite my best efforts and 12+ years of daily Linux
experience, there is a non-zero chance that I somehow let two instances of the
same validator run. In this unlikely case, the SWISE I have staked as collateral
would be sold to make up for any delegator losses.
Protocol Risk Despite the Stakewise team's best efforts and multiple thorough
audits, there is a non-zero risk that a protocol bug could result in the loss of
funds. It is possible to insure against this type of incident, though. Nexus
Mutual is the leading provider of protcol hack cover insurance.
Validator Client Risk Validator clients can have bugs with the potential to
cause the slashing of large numbers of validators if the client(s) make up a
majority of the network. However, if you are using minority clients like I do,
no bug should result in anything worse than a small inactivity leak. The same
cannot be said about many of the large staking pools.


NON-CUSTODIAL STAKING

More control,
less fees




THE GRAPH

NON-CUSTODIAL

A protocol for decentralized indexing and querying of blockchain data. Delegate
to earn indexing rewards, support small operators, and support decentralization.

 * Slashing Risk: None
 * Fee: ~13.5%
 * Withdrawal Delay: ~28 days
 * Negate GRT inflation by delegating
 * Gain exposure to query fee market
 * Help decentralize by staking with a small provider

Delegate GRT


ETHEREUM

NON-CUSTODIAL

Easy, cheap, trust-and-risk-minimized option for staking ETH that promotes
decentralization, client diversity, and has a liquid staking option.

 * Slashing Risk: Exists
 * Fee: 10%
 * Withdrawal Delay: Variable
 * Access to a liquid staking token (osETH)
 * Save on high staking provider fees
 * Support client diversity
 * Help decentralize by staking with a small provider

Delegate ETH