Around October 30, 2025, Beaconcha.in data provided by Hildobby, showed that the share of validators on the Ethereum beacon chain operated by Lido had fallen below 22%. 22% is regarded as a critical threshold for entity size, because larger entities represent a centralization and governance risk to the network. We welcome Lido as an aligned actor and we celebrate the robustness of the beacon chain.

Project Laika is entering cryosleep for an undetermined amount of time. To celebrate those who who joined us in the experiment, this final session starts a giveaway of a special edition Towel Rocketeer. Thanks to everyone who joined the livestreams. We enjoyed your presence, ideas, and willingness to be Rickrolled. We hope to exit project Laika from cryosleep once we have reached a Canine-friendly star system.

This week is beta testing week for the new Signer.is tool! The tool is designed to allow you to sign a message (not transaction) with your crypto wallet, and to share the cryptographic signature easily using a sharable link. Your job as a beta tester: try it out, and perhaps even try to break it a little 🙉

A POAP given out to all holders of Rocket Pool's token, as we hit 13k total holders

All Rocketeers have been born, and for a brief location in spacetime the enthusiasm of the community made the Rocketeer contract top the charts of the ultrasound.money leaderboard. Remember remember the 14.47 UTC of the 29th of December.