Secure Staking Alliance

A cross-industry collaboration to develop open standards for designing, building, and running secure validator infrastructure

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

“I think it’s up to all of us to develop the pieces that allow risk-taking people to exist in a way that doesn’t cause problems for everyone else.” ⚙️ Our wheels are turning after last week’s Secure Staking Alliance event! https://t.co/tWsZpMECMP

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

Secure Staking Alliance founding member @cubistdev put together some thoughts on how we can manage slashing risk in restaking.

It's a great read📘 for anyone designing an AVS, running restaking infrastructure, or depositing funds to a restaking protocol: https://t.co/8kyA06dbes

[Cubist @cubistdev]

Today we’re excited to share our writeup on slashing risk management in restaking: https://t.co/VmXGRQxQz7

In restaking—as in standard Ethereum staking—it's impossible to distinguish between malicious behavior and honest mistakes.

🚨The likelihood of mistakes and misconfigurations scales with the number of AVSes an operator opts into: the more complex devops setups they need to run and configure, the more likely it is that things will go wrong—and that they’ll get slashed.

🗨️“Well, that’s what anti-slashing is for,” you might say. But AVSes define their own slashing conditions—and not all slashing conditions can be approximated and enforced using anti-slashers. In practice, operators have to trade off between their validators' performance (availability) on AVS protocols that are incompatible with anti-slashers and the security (slashing) of these validators across all the AVSes they opted into.

Finally, when slashing happens in restaking, it isn’t necessarily isolated; getting slashed by one AVS may correlate with getting slashed on other protocols, so a bug in one AVS client🪲 impacts others AVSes🪲, too.

A proper anti-slashing setup mitigates these risks on AVSes which have designed their protocols to be anti-slashable, but this doesn’t mean just firing up an instance of Web3Signer. (➡️More in the blog post! We’ve been thinking about anti-slashing and staking security for a long time…).

[Veridise @VeridiseInc]

Thank you @StakingSecurity Alliance for the great event!

While (re)staking picks up momentum in the market, we at Veridise, along with other alliance members, keep our heads cool.

Collaboration, standards, and operational guidelines improve the staking security for all of us.

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

@gdanskij @bensepanski @mr_dddt @justinembone @second_fraser @vreeland @banescusebi @dntse @kwantam @stanleywu84 @soubhik_deb @roth_edgar Lastly, a big thank you to our sponsors 🤝 for their generosity and commitment to making the day a success. @babylon_chain, @ChainproofDAI, @cubistdev, @everstake_pool, @Evertas, @PolyhedraZK, @SemanticLayer, @VeridiseInc, and @verilog_audit, we appreciate your support!

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

“I think it’s up to all of us to develop the pieces that allow risk-taking people to exist in a way that doesn’t cause problems for everyone else.” ⚙️ Our wheels are turning after last week’s Secure Staking Alliance event! https://t.co/tWsZpMECMP

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

We owe it to our esteemed speakers 🎙️ for igniting valuable discussions that are paving the way for our standards work! 🔥 @gdanskij @bensepanski @mr_dddt @justinembone @second_fraser @vreeland @banescusebi @dntse @kwantam @stanleywu84 @soubhik_deb @roth_edgar

[Chainproof Insurance @ChainproofDAI]

A snap from yesterday’s inaugural Secure Staking Alliance event at @EthereumDenver with Sebastian Banescu (@banescusebi), CEO of Chainproof & Head of @Quantstamp Germany!

Thank you to everyone who joined us 🫶

[Evertas @Evertas]

Evertas co-founder & CEO @gdanskij spoke on infrastructural operational security challenges at @StakingSecurity yesterday. Moderated by @cubistdev's Fraser Brown, the panel also featured @dex_chen_V from @verilog_audit, @bensepanski of Veridise & Redjack’s @justinembone.

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

📊 Secure Staking Alliance founding member @everstake_pool just published a report exploring the events that defined Ethereum in 2023. Rich with interesting data, it pinpoints challenges we should be solving as a community 👇

[Everstake @everstake_pool]

1/9 The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here. Please welcome our Ethereum Report for 2023!

It’s the first ETH staking report to cover the entirety of 2023, offering insights and data unavailable elsewhere spiced with an interactive dashboard.

See for yourself: https://t.co/tE854HzTx0 #everstakereport

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

Today we officially welcome the @verilog_audit team to the Secure Staking Alliance! We look forward to working together on open security standards for the staking community.

[Verilog Solutions @verilog_audit]

Verilog Solutions is proud to announce our membership in the Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity. Verilog Solutions has provided security services to major staking infrastructures and will continue to support the staking community https://t.co/1ABxwCOb6B #SSA #SecureStaking

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

@daniel_swell_ @eigencloud Learn more at https://t.co/PXXFnmQTHZ!

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

Please join us in welcoming @Quantstamp to the Secure Staking Alliance! Quantstamp has long been a leader in Web3 security, and we’re excited for them to share their valuable expertise as we develop open security standards for the staking community.

[Quantstamp @Quantstamp]

Quantstamp is excited to join the Secure Staking Alliance (@StakingSecurity), working with industry leaders to ensure open standards and shape the future of secure staking.

More details 👇

https://t.co/IFfdScmosf #SSA #SecureStaking

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

We’re delighted to welcome @ChainproofDAI as a new member of the Secure Staking Alliance! As a regulated insurer, Chainproof brings a unique risk management perspective—we’re thrilled to have them on board as we work together to establish open security standards for validators.

[Chainproof Insurance @ChainproofDAI]

At Chainproof, we safeguard staking providers through regulated insurance. Now, we're taking it further by joining the Secure Staking Alliance, contributing to open @StakingSecurity standards, and ensuring better validator security.

Info: https://t.co/s6tVzBsNvw

[Secure Staking Alliance @StakingSecurity]

As we continue to see even sophisticated operators get slashed, @cubistdev founders Ann Stefan/Fraser Brown sat down with @dlnews’s @TimInCrypto to discuss the Secure Staking Alliance, how to prevent accidental slashing, and more. Read the story here: https://t.co/aiCyEIBU0h

[Cubist @cubistdev]

“We ended up with this tension where the fundamental security mechanism of Ethereum is actually the fundamental insecurity mechanism for validator node operators."

As code bugs and infrastructural errors continue to cause validators to be accidentally slashed, our COO Ann Stefan and CTO Fraser Brown sat down with @dlnews’s @TimInCrypto to discuss the recent launch of the Secure Staking Alliance (@StakingSecurity), a cross-industry partnership creating open standards for running secure validators—as well as Cubist's continued efforts to prevent accidental slashing.

Read the article here: https://t.co/udihxbpYjq

#staking #slashing #blockchain #defi

[Everstake @everstake_pool]

1/3 Everstake is happy to announce that our company has joined the Secure Staking Alliance as a founding member, fully committed to developing industry standards for staking and Web3 altogether to ensure their utmost security and reliability. #SSA #SecureStaking

[Chandrakana Nandi @ChandrakanaNaN]

Super excited to be part of @StakingSecurity with these amazing teams!