Empowering Solo-staking with Dappnode Home x Lido CSM

Dappnode Home x Lido CSM offers an effortless solution to kickstart your Ethereum validation journey. This powerful combination caters to solo-stakers, featuring Dappnode’s plug-and-play tools for easy setup and the Lido Community Staking Module(CSM) to lower the barriers of becoming an Ethereum node operator. By purchasing the Dappnode Home, you're already halfway through the setup process. This pre-assembled ASUS NUC meets and even exceeds all Ethereum validation hardware requirements, perfect for home validation. Setting up Ethereum validation tools with your Dappnode is simple, thanks to comprehensive guides and an intuitive UI that guides you every step of the way. Next, upload your validator keys to the CSM Widget, and you're all set! The CSM widget and node packages on your Dappnode combine for a frictionless experience to manage and maintain your validators, making solo staking easier than ever.

Lido Community Staking Module

Lido Community Staking Module(CSM) is the Lido on Ethereum protocol’s first module with permissionless entry, allowing any node operator — and especially community stakers, from solo stakers, to groups of friends, to amateur operators — to operate validators by providing an ETH-based bond (security collateral).

In an effort to enhance Ethereum's decentralization by incorporating a broader range of operators, CSM introduces the following features to make solo staking more attractive and accessible:

- Consensus and Execution Layer rewards are smoothed across Lido modules, so CSM Node Operators may receive more consistent and less volatile rewards;
- A reasonably low bond for Node Operators to attract more prospective operators;
- No secondary token security collateral is required, with bonds accepted in ETH, stETH, wstETH and rewards received in a form of stETH;
- Node Operators are provided with a friendly UX and pay less gas fees for on-chain operations compared to other options on the market;
- Node Operators may potentially gain more validator rewards (on a total ETH spent basis) than vanilla solo staking.

Read more about Community Staking Module: https://operatorportal.lido.fi/modules/community-staking-module

Your machine’s hardware:

If you have an internet connection, access to your router and a device with wifi capability (like your laptop or phone), your purchase should have everything you need to start running your Home.

All machines come with Dappnode Core preinstalled, ready to run. Even thought this is a Lido CSM Edition, you can run any kind of an Ethereum validator on these machines.

Unique Opportunity for Dappnode Home X Lido CSM Holders

Lido CSM has an Early Adoption mechanism that is meant to onboard a sub-set of identified likely solo stakers to CSM on mainnet prior to the module opening up to everyone. This mechanism safeguards against the potential crowding out of CSM’s capacity by large operators during the initial phase. Upon purchasing the Dappnode Home x Lido CSM machine, you can provide an Ethereum address that will be proposed to be included to the Early Adoption list for CSM mainnet, that also comes with the benefit of a reduced required amount of collateral for the first validator registered with this address registered. Read more about the Early Adoption Mechanics: https://operatorportal.lido.fi/modules/community-staking-module#block-ef60a1fa96ae4c7995dd7794de2a3e22