Rocket Pool 2 Beta

As progress towards our next public community beta continues unabated, we showed you in our last update how the UI is shaping up for an Ethereum 2.0 staking network and pool. This new UI approach is focused on simplicity and ease of use - you can literally start staking within seconds of hitting the site using MetaMask or other web3 compatible software.

You’ll get an intro when you first hit the beta, a quick guide on how to use it.

Since our last update, the majority of work on the beta has been integrating our smart contracts into the new website UI design. This made use of our Rocket Pool Javascript package which makes interacting with the Rocket Pool network much easier. If you ever plan on making your own pool or offering staking services using the Rocket Pool infrastructure, you’ll most likely need this package to make your own UI. You can read more about that package in our last update.

Those contract integrations are now complete and testing is now the main objective before we let the public have at it. This next beta is significantly bigger than our first - you’ll be able to stake ETH (well, fake ETH) and even test out our smart node software as a node operator. This will allow you to add your own node to the Rocket Pool network, with a minimum stake of 16 ETH (not 32 like outside of RP). This amount is also fee-free from us (hey, you’re helping the network out) and you get an additional return on top of it in the form of a network-determined fee charged to users who have their ETH assigned to your node for staking. Wow.

We’ll be giving a launch date for the upcoming beta in the near future, but we can say that every user in the community who tests it out will receive a share of 10,000 RPL given away once it concludes. The Ethereum community has been fantastic to us and we intend to return those well wishes as best we can.