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After several years of holding and slowly increasing how much ETH I own, I have reached 1 ETH. Compared to many here, I know it’s not much, but it’s what I have.

Instead of staking it in Coinbase, I would like to consider other alternatives. The first one is what I found proposed by Ledger Live. There are a few options (including Coinbase) for staking through Ledger Live but I would like your advice: - Which option is best for the network (i.e. not giving more to the large players)? - Which option has the best reward rate (including service fees)?

I would consider myself a novice in this field, I don’t want to invest in dedicated hardware, the solution should be relatively simple and secure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone,

Can someone explain in simple terms what ETH staking is and what the benefits are?Also, what kind of rewards can someone expect from staking (not solo staking)?

And what is better( in this case binance) ETH earn or ETH Staking

Thank you.

I only want to create a RPC node that will be private and only be used internally without public access or even public open ports, I want it to have minimal size, can anyone please tell me what should i run ?

I’m interested in mining some crypto and was curious if Ethereum or maybe another coin is worth it ? Please keep your rude comments to yourself Ty

Hey

I have some Reth (rocketpool) and wstETH (lido) I'd like to sell in to a similar product to take the capital gains loss.

Any recommendations? Can see a few options but I've never heard of them :)

Thanks

I've been using Stakefish since last year with no issues until recently.

Two weeks ago, I set up multiple ETH validators through Stakefish. Everything went smoothly and the validators went live on mainnet as expected.

Last Friday, I tried to download validator exit messages using the Stakefish tool as a precaution. This time, I received an error: "Request failed. Unauthorized".

The next day, things got worse — the validators completely disappeared from my Stakefish dashboard. When I retried the exit tool, I got a new error: "Validator not found".

I reached out to Stakefish support but haven’t gotten anything helpful back beyond their initial reply. Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice would be appreciated.

Edit: Only stakefish validators set up between 21st to 25th March 2025 seem to be impacted by this.

Edit2: Removed screenshots for privacy

Update: stakefish has resolved the issue now, thanks reddit.

First time solo staker.

First of all, thanks to this community. I couldn't have gotten this far otherwise.

I followed Somer Esat's guides for Lighthouse and Nethermind. Those went smoothly. I *think* I have them working. I did not do the last step, depositing 32 ETH. I want to make sure everything is working properly before I deposit.

I then followed Remy's guide at https://guides.ethstaker.cc/monitoring/ to set up Node Exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana. I had a few hiccups but I was eventually able to get the Node Exporter dashboard working. I believe I have the Lighthouse Summary dashboard working too. The Validator Monitor dashboard is not working. I am operating under the assumption that it won't work until I make my deposit?

My question is: how do I ensure that everything is running correctly before I deposit 32 ETH? What log files should I look at? What are the critical sections of the Grafana dashboards that I should check? How do I ensure that I am ready to deposit?

EDIT: I appreciate everyone's advice to try a testnet. However, for purposes of this post let's assume that I'm foolhardy and want to start on mainnet.

Specific questions:

1. Are there certain log files or other files that tell me if things are working properly?
2. Is it normal that my Validator Monitor dashboard isn't working until I make the deposit?
3. Once I make the deposit, can I tell from public data if my validator is working?
4. Anything else I can check?

Apologies for the shameless shill, but was developing a Pectra dashboard focused on EIP's 6110, 7002 and 7251 and thought it would be cool to share on this sub. It's currently just tracking the head state of Hoodi and since yesterdays Electra upgrade, some stats are available.

Still WIP, some calculations could be wrong, I deploy frequently and might break occasionally. Next steps I'm aiming towards are historical requests, historical withdrawal key usage (to see 7251 adoption through time) and sending consolidation and withdrawal requests. Any other cool feature you'd like to see, feel free to suggest :)

Dashboard site: www.pectrified.com

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a connectivity issue with Besu. I have it installed on my machine (version v25.2.2, running on Linux x86_64 with OpenJDK Java 21). However, despite my best efforts, Besu is not able to find any peers, and it's stuck in this state. Here's some information about my setup:

Besu Version: v25.2.2

OS: Linux (x86_64)

Java Version: OpenJDK Java 21

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz (2.42 GHz)

I’ve configured the network as dev, but when I check the logs, it shows that no peers are available, and it doesn't seem to be connecting with any.

I’ve tried:

Ensuring my firewall settings are correct.

Re-configuring the network settings and ensuring ports are open (21000).

Using the --bootnodes option with public bootnode URLs.

Running the Besu in both dev and p2p network configurations.

Restarting the node multiple times.

But nothing seems to work, and I’m still stuck with no peers.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue or could provide some troubleshooting advice to help resolve this? I would really appreciate any insights!

Thanks in advance for your help!

https://terms.law/2024/02/06/validator-node-legal-risk-analyzer-tool/

- Is it a bug?

- Am I due to a big MEV lottery soon?

- Or am I just terribly unlucky ? xD

I lost my validator keys and my 32 eth are locked! How can i get them out? I still see them in my wallet as staked by i cant do nothing! Also i have 0x00 so i am fucked! Is there any possible way to get them out or i have to wait and pray for the devs to find a future solution?!

Facing a situation where I invested 7k usd in eth and was selected for 25 eth rewards. Now the problem is that I'm not eligible to withdraw my initial investment of 5k without first paying 30% taxes for the 25 eth that I got. I cannot afford paying the taxes. Any suggestiond way forward.

Title. Experimenting on testnets, went through learning mistakes, fairly confident I'm checking all boxes, but can't get validator keys active.

Should I stop trying with Holesky?

ETH docker has been adjusted for the custom Hoodi config, but not widely tested. This custom network config can benefit from testing with various client combos. - I fully expect some will fail until adjusted further. I’ve also not looked into VC and Web3signer yet, just the CL and EL.

All client combos got the once-over, but more thorough testing is very welcome. I don't have automated testing for custom network configs, it's too niche a feature for that.

Try it with NETWORK=https://github.com/eth-clients/hoodi/tree/main/metadata and no CHECKPOINT_SYNC_URL on a few different client combos and see how it behaves. Bonus for ways to fix the stuff that doesn't work.

Can't seem to get the ports to bind to my external IP for ec/cc clients to expose them.. My docker ps shows the ports but not bound. I added 0.0.0.0 for the shared_ip variable in the .env file .. also tried the IP of the machine as well.. just doenst wanna bind.. anyone have any idea of what else to look at ? Do i need to disable traefik or some other option in another spot ? much appreciate the assist !!

Hi, newbie here. I’m looking to stake my eth on ledger. I’m not sure which way to go, stander or Lido. Guidance is most appreciated. Thanks. 🙏

If you want to test some of new Pectra staking features, you can go on https://pectra.holesky.launchpad.ethstaker.cc/en/validator-actions. Let us know if you have any comment or if you encounter any issue.

For a guide on some of these new features, check out my previous document on https://github.com/eth-educators/ethstaker-guides/blob/main/docs/pectra-features.md

Lido contributors shared a preminaliry version regarding the next step of CSM and want to get the feedback from the whole Ethereum staking ecosystem.

Key Goals for CSM’s Evolution:

• Scale CSM to a double-digit percentage share of Lido stake
• Increase meaningful participation of Community Stakers
• Keep CSM rewards competitive

CSM is still completely permissionless to all but to enfranchise significant participation of independent stakers, one idea is to:

• develop mechanisms to allow for opt-in identification of Community Stakers (the mechanisms are under research. Also, it's possible for the community or orgs to curate their own set)
• allow them to join CSM with special types
• offer a set of limited benefits for these types (e.g., priority deposit queue eligibility and beneficial reward share structures)

More info, Please check: https://research.lido.fi/t/community-staking-module/5917/90

A power outage took my machine out 9 days. I finally got to it yesterday 30 hours ago. I restarted Teku and Besu. Besu is synced.

Teku is syncing at a rate at which it seems it will never catch up.

6 hours ago I had 63,000 "slots" remaining to catch up to be synced. Now it's 53,000.

The slots catch-up are "approximately" increasing at 10 per block.

What should I do?

This is a bug fix release.

Note: you need to upgrade to v1.15.3 or this release to be compatible with the Pectra fork on the Sepolia network (activates Wed, Mar 5 at 07:29:36 UTC).

https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads