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🚄 Equilibrium Labs Infra Bulletin #30 covers Obol's release of Charon V1, Geographical decentralization of Ethereum, Reth 1.0, and more… Let's dive in! 🤿 Highlight of the week 🔍 Obol released a production-ready version of their DVT middleware, Charon. Distributed validator technology (DVT) enables multiple nodes to collaborate on running an Ethereum validator ("multi-sig for validation"). Charon is the middleware client that sits between the validating client and its connected beacon node, enabling existing Ethereum validator clients to operate together as part of a DV cluster. Research, Articles & Other Things of Interest 💡 - Research on the geographical decentralization of Ethereum Nodes - Research on MegaETH and their design choices - Paradigm releases Reth 1.0 - Vitalik's recent post around pre-confirmations - ZK FM podcast episode on programmable privacy - Demo of Starkware's new Stwo prover (1,000x improvement) Personal Recommendations From Our Team 🤌 📚 Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott 🎧 Bleeding Me Dry - Alicia Creti 💡 Faces Made Of Living Skin Make Robots Smile Link to newsletter in the comments - thanks for reading! 🙏