Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rocket Pool's Saturn 1 upgrade reshapes the math for RPL and rETH holders.

Darren Langley, GM of Rocket Pool, sits down with Camila Russo to explain how the protocol expands its scaling capacity, stabilizes rETH's peg, and turns RPL staking into a real ETH-yield strategy.

03:46 Saturn 1 vs. Saturn 0: what actually changed
11:43 The 4 ETH bond and megapool structure
13:33 RPL's fee switch and falling inflation
18:18 Why Rocket Pool sees decentralization as a competitive edge over Lido and centralized exchanges
23:51 Why ETH staking keeps climbing and what's driving demand from ETFs and treasury companies

Watch to understand where Ethereum liquid staking is headed next.


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