Hi everyone, adding Kelp’s support for EIP-8205.
This is timely for our validator infrastructure work. In the funding flow we’ve been designing, withdrawal-credential protection requires a protocol-funded bootstrap deposit, an off-chain credential check, and approval before the remaining funding. That flow brings its own contract states, operational handoffs, and recovery procedures.
Having a standard way to verify the credential binding before depositing stake would let us simplify that design. Beyond the capital and queue benefits already mentioned, we see value in reducing how much security-sensitive infrastructure each staking protocol has to build, audit, and maintain independently.
We also agree with MixBytes on the integration requirements: our deposit path would need to verify the intended binding and its expiry atomically with funding, and account for delays in preregistration processing.
We support considering EIP-8205 for inclusion in Hegotá. Thanks to the authors for moving this forward.