Guide Version 1 | How to setup a validator for Ethereum staking on testnet GOERLI
Become a validator and help secure Ethereum, a proof-of-stake blockchain. Anyone with 32 ETH can join.
🆕 Announcements
As of July 4 2023, this is the V1 GOERLI guide written for post-🦉Shapella🦉
Archived here, this guide is for historical reference purposes.
New staking setups should follow the V2 guides.
Always test and practice on testnet first. Mainnet guide available here.
👍 Your Github Contributions Welcome
This guide is fully open source and fully powered by home-stakers like you.
Pull requests or issues can be submitted on github:
⭐ Installation Overview
Installation is a 5 step process. From start to finish, time to complete these steps can take up to a few hours. Fully syncing the node can take a day.
Rest assured, as you become more familiar and more comfortable by practicing on testnet, you are now proudly on the path towards the gold standard of ETH solo-staking.
Step 1: Prerequisites
Step 2: Configuring Node
Step 3: Setting up Validator Keys
Step 4: Installing execution client
Step 5: Installing consensus client