Ethereum stays decentralized when operators can run the entire stack themselves. Obol Distributed Validators secure Layer 1 with fault-tolerant, multi-operator clusters. The Obol Stack expands this vision to Layer 2: a Kubernetes-native, Helm-packaged way to plug L2 nodes, sequencers, provers, RPC, and indexers into your existing L1 node, not as another ad-hoc docker-compose or systemd unit, but as self-healing workloads.

Protocol teams (and home operators) get production-grade automation, lower costs, and less reliance on centralized providers. Additionally, these self‑hosted services can be turned into a decentralized network others can rely on. The Obol Stack standardizes packaging, so developers can create modular packages which operators can offer as services to the wider network, one that routes requests across a mesh of community‑run nodes.

For Ethereum, this means more independently run nodes, fewer single points of failure, and a path to privacy preservation. This creates a healthier base layer because scaling DA depends on making nodes easy and worthwhile to operate. Decentralization will not maintain itself, and The Obol Stack is explicitly designed to push back against the pressures of centralization.