At-Home Validators: SSV is kind of like a new, valuable tool in one’s toolbox which can be used in many different ways for liveness and/or security. - Dankrad Feist Splitting a key across various machines can increase security should any one be compromised. For at-home validators using cloud providers, SSV enables multi-cloud redundancy, reducing reliance on the performance of just one. Additionally, a group of individuals or a small community can validate together as a group in a robust way. Decentralized Staking Pools: The biggest challenge for staking pools is how to make them secure and decentralized while minimizing slashing risks. Currently, there are good solutions for decentralized withdrawals, but the actual operational side still needs a robust solution, of which SSV can play a major role. A common issue for existing staking pool setups is that risks and rewards are both socialized; one compromised validator can affect the rewards of the individuals they are validating for. With SSV, several trusted entities can work together to form a trustless network. Each operator does not need to trust the other to operate, and a few (up to the threshold) can be compromised, without compromising the network as a whole. As an example, users of the 5 most prominent staking pools in existence today are all susceptible to signal operator failure. If these 5 operators were to band together leveraging SSV, each provider would be able to further secure themselves and their users. If an operator consistently fails, they can be voted out of the pool and perhaps not voted back in. Reputation is the basis of access to provide infrastructure to the staking pool. Users can have more confidence in the performance of their pool as it is diversified across providers. Users also have the opportunity to build their own pools of providers (or cloud accounts etc.) and in the future there is the possibility to divide signing rights amongst unknown parties so that they can act trustlessly. This presents an opportunity to build new incentive models around collaborative work behavior. Infrastructure Providers: Existing solutions for redundancy are only active-passive configurations. Backup nodes serve as failover for primary nodes if they fail to perform their duties, but achieving complete redundancy at the level of the client is really hard to do. SSV creates an opportunity to create superior redundancy across all of the core components that comprise an infrastructure setup - which is a massive value add for customers. For providers that operate at scale, this is not only great for risk reduction but also does not introduce a massive amount of operating costs. It’s a win-win for a configuration that drives significantly better resiliency without introducing a significant amount of overhead for deployment. - Mara Schmiedt There are a lot of very large infrastructure customers who have a lot of stakers (custodians, exchanges etc.) who may have a critical mass of voting power in the network. SSV drives the potential to enable customers of other providers to have a preconfigured set that introduces diversification. Enabling configurations between different providers to service the risk diversification needs of other customers through a middleware software. Development costs are also reduced. Single, sensitive components can lead to development bottlenecks and risks. SSV from a development point of view can alleviate some of these by splitting sensitive key holding or signature points into various nodes and thus changes or updates become much less worrisome. If something doesn’t go well, it can be reverted back without affecting any of the other nodes - this is useful for any service developing on top of ETH staking.