An ETH staking platform, from ideation to a live, supported service.
A digital-assets client wanted to offer Ethereum staking to their customers, but the idea hadn’t yet become an architecture, let alone a build. We took it from discovery through to validator node infrastructure, a staking API, a staking reporting API, and a live service we stayed on to support.
Ideation → Live
Full lifecycle, discovery through to service delivery support
Validator nodes
Ethereum staking infrastructure stood up and operated
Staking + Reporting API
Built from the ground up
Ongoing
Service delivery support after go-live
The challenge
An idea for a staking product, and nothing built yet.
The client wanted to offer Ethereum staking to their customers, but the initial idea hadn’t yet turned into an architecture. There was no validator node infrastructure, no data model for tracking rewards and performance reliably, and no way for customers to see what their stake was actually earning.
Running Ethereum validators as a customer-facing service carries operational stakes most teams underestimate: slashing risk from misconfigured or duplicate validators, key management that has to be right from day one, and node uptime that directly affects customer rewards. None of that forgives a build-and-walk-away approach.
The client needed a partner who could take the idea from discovery through to a live, reliable service, and stay on to run it, not hand over a specification and move on to the next engagement.
Our approach
Five workstreams. One team, idea to operations.
We stayed on the same team from the first discovery conversation through to running the platform in production, so nothing got lost in a handover between the people who designed it and the people who had to operate it.
01
Discovery & ideation
Worked through the client's staking product ambitions from first principles: who the end customers were, what they'd need to see, and the custody, security and regulatory constraints of running Ethereum validators as a customer-facing service.
02
Node & data infrastructure
Stood up and hardened the Ethereum validator node infrastructure, execution and consensus clients, key management, slashing protection, alongside the underlying data infrastructure needed to track validator performance, balances and rewards reliably.
03
Staking API & transaction build
Built the API surface for staking, unstaking and withdrawal transactions, handling the operational realities of validator activation and exit queues and the full transaction lifecycle.
04
Staking reporting API
Built a dedicated reporting API giving customers real visibility into staking rewards, validator performance and balances, structured around what customers actually needed to see rather than a raw dump of chain data.
05
Delivery & service delivery support
Took the platform live and stayed on as the operational owner: monitoring node health, handling incidents, and providing ongoing service delivery support rather than handing over a build and walking away.
The outcome
A live staking platform, and a partner who stayed on.
The platform went from idea to production, with the same team accountable for the architecture now accountable for keeping it running.
A working Ethereum staking platform taken from initial ideation through to a live, customer-facing service
Validator node infrastructure stood up and operated to the standard a staking service depends on: uptime, slashing protection, key management
A staking API handling deposit, withdrawal and transaction lifecycle end to end
A dedicated staking reporting API giving customers real visibility into rewards and validator performance
Ongoing service delivery support after go-live, not a handover and an exit
We needed validator nodes we could trust, an API that handled staking transactions properly, and a way to show customers what they were actually earning. DOD took it from an idea to a live service, and stayed on to run it with us.
Got a staking idea that hasn’t been built yet?
Node infrastructure, staking transactions, and the reporting your customers will actually use, delivered by a team that stays on once it’s live. Start with a discovery call.