How to Make Money With Ethereum Validators

The work of validating transactions can be completely separated from the actual staking of Ether. You just get a percentage return on your money, around 4%. But maybe less after fees from locking it up. The stuff about validating transactions occurs in the background and you don't really have to worry about it. This deters people from sending super long transactions that clog the network. Each transaction specifies one, a maximum gas limit, basically a number of computational steps,. And two, a price per unit of gas.