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Pat and Waq breakdown the weekly top stories and metrics of Rocket Pool, the premier decentralized Ethereum staking protocol.

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April 12, 2025Episode 9537 min

Market Volatility, rETH Ronin Bridge, Final Thoughts. The Weekly Orbit 11 April 2025 #95.

(0:00) Intro(1:36) Volatile Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(13:33) rETH Discounthttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405503016234385409/1360244088485580870(16:40) Deposit Poolhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1357725560435900458https://rocketscan.io/depositpool(19:01) RPIP-69https://rpips.rocketpool.net/RPIPs/RPIP-69(23:46) rETH Ronin Bridgehttps://dao.rocketpool.net/t/rocket-pool-bridge-campaign-vote/3577?u=ssj2_spartanhttps://dao.rocketpool.net/t/rocket-pool-bridge-campaign/3520/26(29:25) EIP-7251 Impact on Saturnhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/857072928155762718/1357230414355370055(33:30) Final Thoughts

March 28, 2025Episode 9435 min

rETH on peg, STAR Slide Deck, RP Sentiment.The Weekly Orbit 28 March 2025 #94.

(0:00) Intro(2:39) Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://farside.co.uk/eth/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(8:35) Deposit Poolhttps://rocketscan.io/depositpool(8:59) rETH On Peghttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405503016234385409/1354814720837816320(15:57) Lido CSM V2 Permissioned?https://x.com/d_gusakov/status/1904186356252786692(19:19) STAR rETH Slide Deckhttps://discord.com/channels/1109303903767507016/1109303904547655724/1353638351747420162https://www.figma.com/deck/VpcpV6kufypjypfxZUz7LE/Rocket-Pool-rETH-Intro?node-id=44-181&t=RjqMgzk21a8GamPm-1(25:18) RP Sentimenthttps://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1jik12h/comment/mjhbqxf/?context=3&share_id=9lzu9fHCzB8r2yajpYNEz&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1&rdt=37748https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1354000436465631262(32:31) NodeSet Hyperdrivehttps://discord.com/channels/968587363536220252/1257735564040470729(34:03) Wins

March 14, 2025Episode 9344 min

oDAO Performance? Update on Saturn Upgrade. The Weekly Orbit 14 March 2025 #93.

(0:00) Intro(5:17) Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://farside.co.uk/eth/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(17:10) Etherfi rETH LPhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1348056011373674598https://balancer.fi/pools/ethereum/v2/0x05ff47afada98a98982113758878f9a8b9fdda0a000000000000000000000645(22:58) oDAO Vote & Performancehttps://vote.rocketpool.net/#/proposal/0x28bd6cfa9e8b6bb51f18ac8bae200fda31afabcd658ce4798631b9447379de9e/voteshttps://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-are-the-current-odao-membe-3DQOEVSlTiW1LSEigDnFVg#0(33:08) Community Call Smartnode V2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryp6hdxxNVw(37:37) Saturn Update(40:26) Holesky Finalizeshttps://x.com/parithosh_j/status/1899180018887954519(42:21) Wins

March 6, 2025Episode 9237 min

Consensys Suit Dropped, RPL Value Capture Gets Legal Green Light. The Weekly Orbit 7 March 2025 #92.

(0:00) Intro(1:20) Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://farside.co.uk/eth/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(10:14) rETH Discounthttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405503016234385409/1347348812431097897(17:15 Consensys) lawsuit droppedhttps://x.com/scottmelker/status/1895159179498729544https://x.com/drjasper_eth/status/1895176924240212166(22:36) RPL Value Capture Gets Legal Team Blessinghttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/774497904559783947/1346593833063809096(26:26) Fee Switch Calculatorhttps://rpl-fee-switch.streamlit.app/S1_staking(30:18) Winshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkyRiRJCx8_gVMIv_gPph6blzPo1I8Oq/view?pli=1

February 28, 2025Episode 9136 min

Market Turmoil, ETHDenver, Holesky Bug. The Weekly Orbit 28 February 2025 #91.

PodcastsRSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/e0e911b0/podcast/rssSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Mx5Y6ilFjsb9VYkdGaZjxApple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-orbit/id1686732351Google: .https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lMGU5MTFiMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw(0:00) Intro(0:49) Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://farside.co.uk/eth/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-poolhttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/constellation-staked-rplhttps://www.tradingview.com/chart/CErxX3pv/?symbol=BINANCE%3ARPLUSDT(8:04) Onchain Vote Delayedhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1344004074449666098https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/1343473160137478235(11:34) ETHDenverhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/1310702591746900038/1343679896416944128(16:50) RP Nodes Importance to Ethereumhttps://x.com/potuz_eth/status/1892886465043968013https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405503016234385409/1344508682032906246(22:37) Holesky Bughttps://x.com/ethStaker/status/1894171709667750389https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/1118917696738824212/1343735103209341038(31:52) Wins

February 22, 2025Episode 9041 min

rETH at Peg, Onchain Voting, Speculative Premium. The Weekly Orbit 21 February 2025 #90.

(0:00) Intro(1:12) Marketshttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(4:50) Deposit Poolhttps://rocketscan.io/depositpoolhttps://dune.com/rp_community/saturnqueues(7:50) rETH back on peghttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405503016234385409/1342684608969576519(17:06) Karpatkeyhttps://x.com/karpatkey/status/1890347264696045867(20:34) Star Programhttps://dao.rocketpool.net/t/star-program-weekly-update/3516(22:21) oDAO Onchain Votehttps://vote.rocketpool.net/#/proposal/0x0e3d55efdb9a1780a5a314cd24c61f7167b9ae10ad2bbf85c8dcc7acbe0fb692https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/894377758489210930/1341437495383949362https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/1341666845052370945(28:58) Val's ETH/RPL Ratio Spreadsheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18cc6smtFn1dETLRuF1RPa4sF8Fx8uOPg41eJn3AaGAA/edit?gid=1132163384#gid=1132163384(35:59) Smartnode Updatehttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/918351974406172723(37:16) Wins

February 8, 2025Episode 8952 min

Saturn 1 Devnet, Smartnode V2, OpenZK rETH. The Weekly Orbit 7 February 2025.

(0:00) Intro(1:39) Marketshttps://farside.co.uk/eth/#google_vignette https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereumhttps://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool(21:43) Saturn 1 Devnet-1https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/1337331913651650571(27:00) Smartnode V2https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1336841185154830356(31:50) STAR Launchhttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/704196071881965589/1336447496318095441https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/star-program-kickoff/3500(36:30) OpenZK rETHhttps://x.com/OpenZkNetwork/status/1886662758667866418http://www.openzk.net/(38:58) RP DeFi Market Rateshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiOPWMjG5_BBxF5G5MafZc9Cde24y9jp-iKWKZsJxpk/edit?tab=t.em0kd3pqkmd7(42:52) Wins

January 31, 2025Episode 8842 min

Fidelity & Rocket Pool?, Jasper WLFI Meeting, Token Motion. The Weekly Orbit 31 January 2025. #88

(0:00) Intro (1:41) Deepseek Impact https://www.deepseek.com/ (2:55) Markets https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool https://www.tradingview.com/chart/CErxX3pv/?symbol=BINANCE%3ARPLUSDT https://www.validatorqueue.com/ https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum https://farside.co.uk/eth/ (14:55) Fidelity Interest in RP https://x.com/drjasper_eth/status/1883579688368607623 (26:19) Jasper Meets WLFI https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1333638030245888081 htthttps://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/998627604686979214/1333848131170861117https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1333856130409037945 (32:32) Earn Points w/rETH & Symbiotic https://x.com/gauntlet_xyz/status/1884270134363345107 (35:20) Token Motion https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/token-motion-design-idea-submission/3493?u=shfryn (39:04) Wins

January 24, 2025Episode 8732 min

OBOL Airdrop, WLFI/rETH Discussion, Liquity V2 Launch. The Weekly Orbit 24 January 2025. #87

(0:00) Intro (1:34) Markets https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/official-trump https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool https://www.tradingview.com/chart/CErxX3pv/?symbol=BINANCE%3ARPLUSDT https://farside.co.uk/eth/ (12:45) WLFI/rETH Discussion https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/998627604686979214/1330543231070375997 https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/1881457386671464804?s=46 (19:07) OBOL Airdrop https://blog.obol.org/airdrop/ https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/1138704692772356097/1331359858351673364 https://github.com/Stake-Cat/Solo-Stakers/blob/main/Solo-Stakers/Rocketpool-Solo-Stakers.csv?ref=blog.obol.org (23:45) Liquity V2 Launch with rETH https://www.liquity.org/ https://app.lqty.io/ https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1331651220317802578 (29:06) Wins

January 17, 2025Episode 8635 min

Onchain Voting, HeyAnon, & Saturn 1 Update. The Weekly Orbit 17 January 2025. #86

0:00 Intro 0:59 Markets https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum https://farside.co.uk/eth/ https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rocket-pool https://www.tradingview.com/chart/CErxX3pv/?symbol=BINANCE%3ARPLUSDT 9:40 Smoothing Pool Rewards https://rocketscan.io/smoothingpool 10:50 Onchain Voting https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/on-chain-quorum-initialization-poap/3474 https://checkout.poap.xyz/183395/crypto?step=1 14:56 HeyAnon Partnership? https://x.com/waqwaqattack/status/1878495571620532313 23:56 rETH on Base w/Euler https://x.com/rp_intern/status/1879082369552179426 24:45 STAR Overseer https://dao.rocketpool.net/t/looking-for-overseer-for-the-star-initiative-reth-incubator/3475 27:56 Saturn 1 Update https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1329026264551653376 30:44 BTCS Selects RP https://www.btcs.com/news-media/btcs-utilizes-rocket-pool/ 32:35 Wins