Next Steps

🎉 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://holesky.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://holesky.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://holesky.beaconcha.in

  • Check CL logs: journalctl -fu consensus

👍 Recommended Steps

• 🤞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

☎️ Need extra live support?

Ready for mainnet staking? Check Out the Mainnet guide.