Bitcoin Suisse Migrates Its Ethereum Staking to Obol Distributed Validators

After a year in live production, Bitcoin Suisse intends to migrate all its Ethereum validators to Obol Distributed Validators. 

In 2025, Bitcoin Suisse deployed its first Obol Distributed Validators on Ethereum mainnet. That pilot now becomes the standard: the company is migrating its Ethereum staking infrastructure to Obol Distributed Validators (DVs), moving away from single-private-key validator setups. 

The migration is intended to span Bitcoin Suisse's institutional Ethereum staking services – custodial, non-custodial, and multi-operator activities, including its role in the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN) and its joint clusters with peers such as Solstice Staking. It follows a year of running Obol DVs in production, tested under live mainnet conditions across multiple cluster topologies and through routine maintenance, hardware faults, and client-specific bugs.  

“After running Obol DVs in production for the past year, the verdict is clear. Distributed Validators are resilient, performant, and a risk-adjusted way to stake on Ethereum. Migrating our staking technology to Obol is the rational conclusion of what our data and security reviews are telling us”, says Yves Holenstein, Head of Custody and Staking, Bitcoin Suisse

Unlike a legacy setup that depends on a single node and a single private key, each Obol validator runs as a cluster of independent nodes coordinated by Charon, Obol's DV middleware. A super-majority of nodes must agree before any signature is produced, so a cluster keeps attesting even if individual nodes or operators go offline. A Distributed Key Generation (DKG) ceremony means the full private key is never assembled, never loaded into memory, and never held by a single party, reducing exposure to insider threats and credential theft. 

For clients, the change is intended to be invisible by design: the service continues uninterrupted, while the technology underneath is built to strengthen security and support reliable operation.

About Obol 

Obol powers and secures the multi-trillion dollar Ethereum economy. Building the future where the majority of validators will run as Distributed Validators (the endgame of secure Ethereum staking), and the Ethereum agent economy, which will be powered by the Obol Stack. Together, they form the secure foundation and decentralized engine for Ethereum’s role as the world’s credibly neutral settlement layer. Learn more at Obol.org 

About Bitcoin Suisse 

Bitcoin Suisse is a leading premium provider of crypto financial services for institutional clients, crypto foundations, family offices, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals. Headquartered in Zug, founded in 2013 by crypto natives and with over 200 employees, Bitcoin Suisse is present in Switzerland, the EEA (Liechtenstein), the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda. The scope of services available in each jurisdiction may vary and is subject to the applicable legal and regulatory framework, as well as the client’s location or presence.