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If you want to support the health of the network by staking from home, but also want the benefits of reward smoothing, you can now have the best of both worlds. By pooling together execution layer rewards, validators have access to the mean reward and enjoy distributions at fixed intervals. To join, validators change the fee recipient address in their validator client to our pool contract, connect their wallet, and claim their share of the rewards every two weeks.\n\nWe recently announced our 12 week countdown to mainnet and released the names of our oracle operators. \n\n\u25aa Anthony Sassano, Founder of The Daily Gwei\n\u25aa EthStaker\n\u25aa Cryptomanufaktur\n\u25aa Aestus Relay\n\u25aa Kody Sale (Founder of Smoothly)\n\u25aa Noah Figueras (Co-founder of Smoothly)\n\nFunding plans\n\nAll funds raised from this round will be donated directly to the Smoothly pool contract upon launch! These rewards will go straight to stakers registered to our contract. This is all part of our larger initiative called SLIDE, Social Layer Incentives for DEcentralization. Our goal is to incentivize people to stake from home. The recent social push is great, but a real financial incentive would reverse the tide. By pooling together donated funds with block proposals, home stakers who register with Smoothly will get outsized rewards, incentivizing solo staking!\n\nThis project is designed as an open source (Apache License 2.0) pubic good, and the only fees that are being charged are split between trusted operators of the oracle network. This amount (1.5% on Goerli) is only meant to cover hard costs and is not meant to enrich the operators. The Smoothly team takes no fee and our oracle is treated the same as all other operators.\n\nTeam:\n\nKody Sale (Founder)\n\nMy background is in Mechanical Engineering and am a technologist at heart. I rabbit holed my way into crypto in 2014 when I volunteered my GPU to the distributed computing project Folding@Home. 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