Next Steps
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🎉 Congrats! You've finished the primary steps of setting up your validator. You're now an Ethereum staker!
💊Install EthPillar: a simple companion UI for node management! Command line use is greatly reduced. Update your software with a keystroke.
🗞️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 Part II - 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 with staking? Before decommissioning your validator, it's good practice to properly exit your validator and re-claim your ETH deposit.
🤖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.
Find Ethstaker frens on the Ethstaker Discord and coincashew Discord.
Use reddit: r/Ethstaker, or DMs, or r/coincashew
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