Rated Labs quantifies the impact of compute units (CUs) on Solana validator rewards. We dive into the relationship of CUs, and block rewards, and how doubling Solana’s compute ceiling to 100M CUs could funnel an extra 0.0575 SOL into every block, worth up to US $77,000 a day for high stake validators already churning out thousands of blocks .| Rated blog
How Rated thread together 20M+ events to produce a consistent view of Solana’s validator & delegator set. This blog details our approach to calculating stake state on Solana, outstanding issues and open questions.| Rated blog
London Dec 14th, 2023 – We’re unveiling the launch of the Rated Console, and with it the graduation of the Rated API out of public beta! This marks the first of many stops on the way towards making the console a true Rated power user tool.| Rated blog
London Dec. 5th, 2023 – After many months of research, working group engagement and iterations, we are announcing the establishment of the first open methodology for Node Operator performance evaluation, together with the Liquid Collective.| Rated blog
London Sep. 25th, 2023 – Today we are thrilled to announce that Rated Labs, the company behind Rated, has raised a $12.888 million Series A round to accelerate our mission for transparency and rich context in Web3 infrastructure data.| Rated blog
London Aug. 30th, 2023 – MetaMask Institutional leverages the Rated APIs in its all new Institutional Staking marketplace, surfacing performance metrics to help guide organizations in allocating capital to node operators.| Rated blog
London Jul. 13th, 2023 – After months of work, we’re finally unveiling our partnership with the Liquid Collective, on defining objective performance and risk standards that will govern the protocol’s validator active set.| Rated blog
London Jun. 14th, 2023 – Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Rated Oracle, a fault tolerant gateway for Rated Data onchain, and a dedicated space for it launching under oracle.rated.network.| Rated blog
London June 1st, 2023 – Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Self Report API–the gateway for Node Operators to expose their Ethereum validator fleet on Rated, for best-in-class performance benchmarking and more.| Rated blog
London Nov. 29th, 2022 – Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of “tags” and a dedicated section for Node Operators on the Rated explorer; both important stepping stones in enabling Node Operator onboardings.| Rated blog
Part 3 of a 3 part blog post series on the Ethereum Merge. In this post, we dive into mev-boost and its adoption, the builder and relay landscapes, and what this adoption and optimization towards MEV and rewards in general mean for the network.| Rated blog
Part 2 of a 3 part blog post series on the Ethereum Merge. In this post, we dive deep into validator rewards, as evidenced on-chain in the 90 days around The Merge and supplemented by off-chain sources such as data from MEV relays.| Rated blog
Part 1 of a 3 part blog post series, on some of the most interesting observations we were able to surface from our data, around The Merge. In this post, we dive deep in validator performance in the 90 days around The Merge.| Rated blog
London Oct. 21st, 2022 – 6 months after founding Rated Labs and a month after announcing our seed round, we’re annoucing the sunsetting of v0 and the roll-out of Rated v1 🎉🎉🎉| Rated blog
London Sep. 8th, 2022 – Today we are in the privileged position to announce that Rated Labs, the company behind Rated, has raised a $2.5 million seed round to accelerate its mission for greater transparency and rich context in Web3 infrastructure data.| Rated blog
The inaugural post of this blog that marked the beginning of the journey for Rated.| Rated blog
London May 25, 2023 – This post discusses the results of the work we did in classifying Ethereum validators along the likelihood that they are a solo staker. We classified approximately 6.5% of validator indices on the Beacon Chain as solo stakers.| Rated blog