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Grow your investment and your social impact with impact staking

Launchnodes and GiveDirectly enable you to create social impact through staking. Begin staking with 32ETH or more, retaining your Consensus Layer returns in full. Meanwhile, use your Execution Layer rewards to drive social impact by donating them to GiveDirectly.

Stake and Donate

Ethereum staking to power direct cash transfers

GiveDirectly’s mission is to reshape international giving, making unconditional, direct cash transfers to the poor the benchmark against which other interventions are evaluated. GiveDirectly believes the best way of achieving this mission is by maximizing cash delivered to the poor, with the ultimate aim of ending extreme poverty. Charitable staking allows you to raise the standard for sustainable and direct contributions  beyond what traditional finance can support.

Your financial upside

  • Earn a staking reward on your principal that you keep
  • Donate only your staking execution layer returns
  • Keep custody of your principal that you are staking

Sustainable support

  • Donate a fraction of your returns and support GiveDirectly
  • If you want to support direct cash transfers this is a sustainable way to do it
  • GiveDirectly is a globally recognised leader in the space.

Requirements for Solo Impact Staking

  • 32 ETH or multiples of 32 ETH - staked as a solo staker (using Launchnodes GiveDirectly nodes)
  • Ethereum Validator nodes you have running on infrastructure you own and only you have access to as a solo staker.

Coming soon

  • Stake and donate less than 32ETH
  • Liquid staking users
  • Individuals Staking through staking as a service providers

What do you get?

  • 50% discount on the annual node license
  • Donate to GiveDirectly while earning a return on your staked ETH
  • Full support of your node and infrastructure
  • Node updates and a default connection to a MEV enabled beacon and geth node

Launchnodes provide all impact stakers a 50% discount on their node subscription, allowing them to be a solo staker and an impact staker.

Stake and Donate

Impact staking at a glance

Execution Layer (provided by Launchnodes)

EXECUTION LAYER NODE

Concensus Layer

BEACON NODE