Golden Finance reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin pointed out that the current situation of Ethereum can be regarded as the majority of emerging double-layer pledges. Double-layer pledge includes two types of participants: node operators and principals. Emerging double-layer pledge is mainly generated by a large number of subscribers participating in Liquid Subscription Token (LST) subscription pools (such as Rocket Pool and Lido).
However, the status quo has two major flaws: 1. Centralization risk for node operators. The existing mechanism for selecting node operators for staking pools is not decentralized enough or has other flaws. 2. No need for consensus layer burden. Ethereum L1 verifies approximately 800,000 signatures per epoch, and single-slot finality may increase to 800,000 per slot, which is a large load. The liquid staking share is large and the network does not receive the full benefit of carrying the load. Vitalik believes that if the network achieves acceptable decentralization and security without requiring each stakeholder to sign per time slot, it can rely more on this solution and reduce the number of signatures per time slot to approximately 10,000.
However, the status quo has two major flaws: 1. Centralization risk for node operators. The existing mechanism for selecting node operators for staking pools is not decentralized enough or has other flaws. 2. No need for consensus layer burden. Ethereum L1 verifies approximately 800,000 signatures per epoch, and single-slot finality may increase to 800,000 per slot, which is a large load. The liquid staking share is large and the network does not receive the full benefit of carrying the load. Vitalik believes that if the network achieves acceptable decentralization and security without requiring each stakeholder to sign per time slot, it can rely more on this solution and reduce the number of signatures per time slot to approximately 10,000.