Kraken has become the first major crypto exchange to fully adopt Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) across its Ethereum staking infrastructure, using the open-source SSV Network protocol. The move marks a major shift towards a more decentralized validator architecture for Ethereum. “Following the successful transition, essentially all of Kraken’s ETH staking infrastructure runs on distributed validator clusters, rather than single-machine validators,” a Kraken spokesperson told Blockworks. DVT decentralizes validator operations by splitting responsibilities across multiple independent nodes that cooperate to ... (full story)