On Wednesday, October 27th at 10:30am UTC the EthStaker crew will be hosting the Altair Ethereum Network Upgrade Livestream Party! Altair will be the first network upgrade to the Beacon Chain since it’s launch in December of 2020. To celebrate this milestone event the EthStaker crew will be joined by special guests within the ecosystem from client team members, engineers, and community contributors. As we watch the leadup to epoch 74240 (when Altair is implemented) the EthStaker crew will celebrate with a POAP.art canvas, distribute an exclusive livestream POAP, and host a Q&A session regarding Altair’s technical payload.

Awarded by the Stereum team for the "Stereum Update & Upkeep Challenge" (August 2021)

To this wonderful STAKER community, always helpful, always out there hustling for Ethereum’s global vision. We all have different reasons to be here, come from different backgrounds and made different experiences, some are new, some are here for much longer, but our goals are the same: Protect our investment & build the better future it promises This time, we challenge you, independent node owner to a little competition – with which we want to test how much you care. So we welcome you to the STEREUM “Update & Upkeep Challenge” – done in cooperation with the ETH Staker Subreddit. Open to every independent Staker, regardless of setup. To compete -) simply sign up -) let us measure how many attestation you are missing. -) be perfect and get yourself the S-Tier Badge, for the chance to get picked for the grand price “and be destined for greater fortune” 😊

On Friday, August 27th 2021 a chain split occurred on Ethereum mainnet. This is an issue affecting Geth on the Execution Layer (ETH1). Version 1.10.8 has been released to resolve the issue. If you are running Geth as your Execution Layer client, please update to the version 1.10.8. If you are using Infura or like-service there is no action necessary.