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Obol introduced its OBOL governance and utility token with a total supply of 500 million, allocating 7.5% to an airdrop for the Obol Core Community, Obol Contributions Holders, and Solo Stakers, including Rocketpool Node Operators. The Core Community includes Techne credential holders, testnet participants, and Obol DappNode owners. Contributions Holders are those who provided ETH to run Distributed Validators (DVs).

The airdrop will be claimable starting January 24th and will remain open for 90 days. Tokens will initially be locked as non-transferable NFTs, enabling governance participation during the first Retroactive Funding (RAF) round in February, focused on supporting public goods, A future governance vote will later enable transferability.

Obol also introduced the Obol Product Suite, a toolset for running secure, slashing-resistant DVs, and the Decentralized Operator Ecosystem, a global network of 600 credentialed operators collaborating to scale decentralized infrastructure. Obol’s distributed validators improve Ethereum’s fault tolerance by distributing a validator's key across multiple nodes.