How to Become an Ethereum Validator

What’s actually happening under the hood of Ethereum staking? Dmitry Gusakov from Lido explains the technical workings of Ethereum validators: consensus mechanisms, rewards, penalties, and how anyone can become an Ethereum validator with just 1.5 ETH.

• 🔹 What Ethereum validators really do, and why the term "validator" can be misleading.
• 🔹 The Ethereum consensus mechanism explained (LMD GHOST + Casper FFG).
• 🔹 Why becoming an Ethereum validator is expensive, and how Lido's Community Staking Module (CSM) solves this.
• 🔹 Detailed Ethereum staking architecture: Execution & Consensus layers, Beacon nodes, Validator clients, and MEV-Boost.
• 🔹 Risks validators face (penalties, slashing), and how to minimize them.
• 🔹 Why Ethereum needs more solo validators to achieve real decentralization.
• 🔹 A practical guide: how to set up your own Ethereum validator in a few clicks using Lido CSM, with stable rewards and minimal slashing risk.