This month has made it undeniable, running significant amounts of ethereum:native stake on single points of failure is not a safe long term strategy for your funds. We’re introducing Validator Beat, a simple framework to make sure your stake is operated securely. Stage 1 means no single point of failure gets you slashed. Stage 2 means no single point of failure takes you offline. Stage 0 validator failures could cost you weeks of rewards at best, or decades worth or even everything at worst. Don’t cut corners in a space with asymmetric downside like this, it’s picking pennies up in front of a steamroller.