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🎉 Congrats! You've finished the primary steps of setting up your validator. You're now an Ethereum staker!

⏭️ FAQ​

Wen staking rewards?

Activation Queue: Once your EL+CL is synced, validator up and running, you just wait for activation. This process can take 24+ hours. Only 900 new validators can join per day. Check the queue length: https://wenmerge.com

Activated: When you're activated, your validator will begin creating and voting on blocks while earning staking rewards.

Quick monitoring: Use https://mainnet.beaconcha.in to create alerts and track your validator's performance.

Sync Timeline

Syncing the consensus client is instantaneous with checkpoint sync but the execution client can take up to a day. On nodes with fast NVME drives and gigabit internet, expect your node to be fully synced in a few hours.

How do I know I'm fully synced?

  • Check your execution client's logs and compare the block number against the most recent block on https://mainnet.etherscan.io
    • Check EL logs: journalctl -fu execution
  • Thanks to checkpoint sync, your consensus client's is instantly synched. You can compare the slot number against the most recent slot on https://mainnet.beaconcha.in
    • Check CL logs: journalctl -fu consensus

👍 Recommended Steps​

  • 🚀 Install EthPillar: your node's buddy for easy and fast node management! Update your software with a keystroke.

▶️ EthPillar Quickstart: Ubuntu One-liner Install ​

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coincashew/EthPillar/main/install.sh)"
  • 📰 Subscribe to your Execution Client and Consensus Client's Github repository: Be notified of new releases. Find the Github links on each EL/CL's Overview section. At your EL or CL's github page while logged in, click the Watch button > Custom > click the checkbox for "Release".
  • 😄 Join Community: Join the [community on Discord and Reddit to discuss all things staking related.
  • 🔧 Node Maintenance: Familiarize yourself with Maintenance section, as you'll need to keep your staking node running at its best.
  • 📚 Study EthStaker Knowledge Base: Increase your staking understanding
  • 💿 Backups: Review your staking validator backups!
  • 🤞 Finished testing? Before decommissioning your validator, it's good practice to properly exit your validator as this improves staking network health.

🏁 Optional Steps​

  • 🤖 MEV-boost: Setup MEV-boost for extra staking rewards!
  • 📊 Monitoring: Setup Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus
  • ⛓ RPC: Setup using your own Node as a RPC endpoint
  • 📱 Notifications: Setup Mobile App Notifications and Monitoring by beaconcha.in
  • 🆙 External Monitoring: Setup External Monitoring with Uptime Check by Google Cloud
  • 📚 Knowledge: Familiarize yourself with Part III - Tips section, as you dive deeper into staking.

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