According to CoinDesk, blockchain startup Obol Labs has established a new industry organization to promote the development of distributed validator technology (DVT). This technology aims to improve the security and resilience of decentralized networks such as Ethereum by distributing the hardware control of validators to multiple parties.

Obol Labs said that the organization is called Obol Collective, and its members include more than 50 participants in the Ethereum ecosystem, such as EigenLayer, Lido, Figment, Bitcoin Suisse, Nethermind, etc. Obol's distributed validator technology has been adopted by major participants such as Lido for some validator nodes.