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CRYPTO GLOSSARY

Validator

Software that holds staked ETH and helps run the network by proposing blocks and checking other validators' blocks.

Validator in more detail

A validator is software that holds staked ETH and helps run the network.

Proposing. Now and then it is chosen at random to build the next block.

Attesting. The rest of the time it checks other validators' blocks and votes on them.

FROM LESSON 46 · 5 MIN READInside Ethereum staking: validators, rewards and exitsA closer look at Ethereum staking: what a validator does, where rewards come from, why the rate changes, the two keys involved, and how long it takes to get staked ETH back.Read the lesson

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