Over 4 years ago Rocket Pool was born as an idea for the first ever decentralized staking project for Ethereum. Today we're extremely excited to announce... again, decentralized staking will be a reality on mainnet from 9th November, 2021 00:00 UTC*, just 4 days away! Front end deposits for rETH will open first, then node registrations will be opened about 5m after. We've pioneered a solution to the very esoteric exploit that was raised just a day before our initial planned launch date. This exploit not only affected us, but several other live staking platforms as well. The solution has been verified by Sigma Prime and we have upgraded our initial mainnet deployment of Rocket Pool smart contracts and also our smart node stack to bring it inline with these changes. The full report for that can be found here https://rocketpool.net/files/SigmaPri... To say this launch is huge milestone for the team... again, and our beloved community would be an epic understatement. Rocket Pool isn't just a standard Ethereum project anymore, it really has become a collective of devs and community combined that have helped craft a once good idea, into a great one.

With the impending mainnet launch for Rocket Pool, the EthStaker crew is hosting a livestream on the basics of the security model of being a Rocketpool node operator. We'll start with a short description of the attack surfaces, and progress to a walkthrough of setting up a VPS server as a staking machine with the most essential security precautions. The tutorial will use a macbook client with a Ubuntu server hosted at a VPS provider. 'Mentor' will be presenting during this livestream as he wrote most of the security documentation for Rocket Pool. If you'd like to download the slides you can do so here, in addition to setting a calendar reminder: Event Slides + Calendar Reminder https://ethstaker.cc/events/securing-your-rocket-pool-node-livestream/

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

This isn't flying, this is falling with style!

This POAP marks the day RPL whale 0x16 from Struck Capital was defeated by RPL buyers! GreyWizard had a sighting of a Dumpback Whale. Dazer said the whale had a Premature Capitulation. deetoo noticed it Struck Out Looking. Ken called it a Failure Before Launch. Sezgin simply noted, NGMI. hanniabu was there when it Struck Out Last Inning.

0xcc was a POAP whale being tracked by the RPL trading community who emptied their Rocket Pool Token (RPL) holdings and caused the lowest ETH/RPL ratio (0.00227) on 2021-02-28. When this dump completed, the price of RPL began to climb quickly. Holders of this token were present in the Rocket Pool discord to witness the event.