Ethereum and staking are new concepts as well as new technology, our work involves educating and providing practical training for financial institutions and organisations that are interested in Ethereum, proof of stake blockchains and staking.

Workshop - Ethereum Staking & Proof of Work blockchain for financial institutions and organisations

Launchnodes provides a 1 day (in person or online) collaborative & highly engaging workshop for financial institutions and organisations that are interested in understanding Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchains, Ethereum and Ethereum staking.

Workshop Outcomes

• Educate and train attendees in PoS blockchains (proof of stake).
• Understand Ethereum and its significance
• Understand what staking is and how it works using Beacon and Validator nodes.
• Understand how your organisation can run experiments and labs on how to do it (technically and from a governance perspective).
• Support your organisation in developing innovative and compelling customer propositions, products and services

Workshop Agenda

Part 1

• Foundations - Proof of work vs proof of stake blockchains
• What is Ethereum?
• Why is Ethereum so important?
• What are ERC tokens?
• What are Ethereum layer 2 solutions and chains and how do they work.
• What are NFTs and why are so many platforms for NFTs using Ethereum
• What is the Ethereum eco-system and how does it compare to other blockchains (Solana, Cardano etc)
• Ethereum killers who they are and what their functionality is.

Part 2

• What is Ethereum staking?
• Why would you stake Ethereum?
• How do you stake Ethereum?
• Custodial and non Custodial ways to stake ethereum?
• Operational income from staking vs Investment activity
• Understanding mandates. What does using your institutions or organisations mandate to stake ETH look like?
• How can your organisation start to look at doing it, internally and for customers.
• Building your organisation's internal and client propositions
• Building your organisation internal staking labs/ experiments roadmap

Customisation

This workshop can be tailored to focus on your institution or organisations specific area of interest and for engineering teams can also be supported with practical working examples or setting up and synching Ethereum Beacon nodes and running Ethereum Validator nodes on testnet and mainnet.

Launchnodes have built Ethereum staking infrastructure for institutional clients as well as building staking infrastructure on AWS for Tezos, Kusama, Polkadot, Polygon, Avalanche and Terra. Our workshop can also include focusing on these chains, how they work and what staking on them involves technically on AWS and financially.