Establishment of Verified Operator Policy

A proposal to establish clear guidelines and policies for:

1. Becoming a Verified Operator
2. Maintaining Verified Operator status.

To become a Verified Operator, the requirements are:

• Running an operator, public or private, for at least 90 days on Ethereum mainnet.
• From the time of application (after a minimum of 90 days), the most recent 30 days will be sampled for performance using various explorers such as ssv.network and ssvscan.io.
• The performance shall not drop below 98% for those 30 days.

To keep the Verified Operator classification, the requirements are:

• A Verified Operator shall not have their performance degraded below 98% for more than 14 days.
• In case of degraded performance for > 14 days, the Operator Committee shall, at its discretion, notify the Operator directly to resolve the performance issue.
• A notified Operator has another 14 days to resolve the issue.
• If within those two periods (28 days) the performance is still not above 98%, the Verified Operator classification will be removed.