How and Where To Run DVs

How and where to run DVs

Launchers and Deployment Tooling

• Obol CDVN

• Obol K8s

• Obol Helm Charts

• Obol Ansible Playbooks

• Dappnode

• Stereum

• Sedge

• Terraform Charon Relay

• Terraform Grafana Charon dashboards

Quickstart Guides

• Run a DV alone

• Run a DV as a group

CL+VC Combinations:

Legend

• ✅: All duties succeed in testing

• 🟡: All duties succeed in testing, except non-penalized aggregation duties

• 🟠: Duties may fail for this combination

• 🔴: One or more duties fails consistently

Validator 👉 Consensus 👇	Teku v24.10.3	Lighthouse v5.3.0	Lodestar v1.23.0	Nimbus v24.10.0	Prysm v5.1.2	Remarks
Teku v24.10.3	✅	🟡	✅	✅	🟠	Teku beacon node needs the --validators-graffiti-client-append-format=DISABLED flag in order to produce blocks properly. Teku validator client is only failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalized but impact network density at high scale.
Lighthouse v5.3.0	✅	🟡	✅	✅	✅	Lighthouse validator client is only failing aggregation duties, which are not directly penalized but impact network density at high scale.
Lodestar v1.23.0	✅	🟡	✅	✅	🟠
Nimbus v24.10.0	✅	🟡	✅	✅	🟠
Prysm v5.1.2	✅	🟡	✅	✅	✅	Prysm validator client is failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalized but impact network density at high scale. In some combinations rare failures of attestation and proposal duties were observed (0-2% per epoch).

Note: for the most recent compatibility information, please see the release notes from the most recent release of Charon.