Governance

The Obol Collective is governed by individuals and organisations that contribute to the security & decentralisation of Ethereum's settlement layer, allocating resources across the Collective to maximise impact.

Our Goals

Resource allocation

The responsibility of governance is to effectively allocate resources to support the vision and long-term sustainability of the Collective. Balancing vision and value requires a mix of short- and long-term thinking.

Collective decentralisation

Governance ensures the Obol's anti-capture and censorship resistance. It allows technical operations to continue independently, preventing any single entity or group from controlling or censoring Obol.

How is governance administered?

The Obol Association stewards funding in line with the Collective's mission. Aiming to increase decentralisation over time, it will gradually transfer governance roles to the Obol Collective.

Direct funding to ecosystem projects

Develop and maintain the Collective's operations

Facilitate the administration of the Collective's governance

Take other actions conducive to the stewardship role.

Meet the Ecosystem

Staking Protocols & Products

DV Client Teams

Squad Staking & Techne

DV Tooling

Educators & Researchers

Investors

Angels & Advisors

Validators Operators

DV Stakers

Staking Protocols & Products

🤝 Collective membership: Integrate DVs into protocols & products, enabling others to stake on DVs.

📈 Impact measured by: Value staked on DVs.

Staking Protocols & Products

DV Client Teams

Squad Staking & Techne

DV Tooling

Education & Research

Investors & Advisors

Validator Operators

Angels & Advisors

DV Stakers

DV Clients Teams

🤝 Collective membership: Conduct research & contribute code to Charon, other client implementations, and the DV protocol.

📈 Impact measured by: Code & research contributed, clients built.

Staking protocols integrating DVs into their products

Nethermind Research explores the use of applied cryptography, and empowers enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralised systems.

Staking Protocols & Products

DV Client Teams

Squad Staking & Techne

DV Tooling

Education & Research

Investors & Advisors

Validator Operators

Angels & Advisors

DV Stakers

Staking Protocols & Products

🤝 Collective membership: Integrate DVs into protocols & products, enabling others to stake on DVs.

📈 Impact measured by: Value staked on DVs.

Staking Protocols & Products

DV Client Teams

Squad Staking & Techne

DV Tooling

Education & Research

Investors & Advisors

Validator Operators

Angels & Advisors

DV Stakers

Staking Protocols & Products

🤝 Collective membership: Integrate DVs into protocols & products, enabling others to stake on DVs.

📈 Impact measured by: Value staked on DVs.

Obol Contributions Program

Decentralising Future Ownership

Stakers on DVs gain future ownership by contributing to the Obol Collective, by joining in the mission and create shared value.

Governance of the Obol Collective

Stakers on DVs gain governance rights to vote on Obol RAF recipients, determining how best to support Ethereum decentralisation.

Obol Retroactive Funding

Obol DVs contribute 1% of staking rewards to a retroactive funding program, acting as an economic flywheel to scale and decentralise Ethereum through the adoption of DVs.
Hence, it's called 1% for Decentralisation.

1% for
Decentralisation

Obol DVs contribute 1% of staking rewards to a retroactive funding program, acting as an economic flywheel to scale and decentralise Ethereum through the adoption of DVs.
Hence, it's called 1% for Decentralisation.

Ready to start?

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Governance

The Obol Collective is governed by individuals and organizations that contribute to the Obol Protocol. They allocate resources across the Collective to maximize impact on Ethereum Consensus layer.