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
CL+VC Combinations:
Legend
- ✅: All duties succeed in testing
- 🟡: All duties succeed in testing, except non-penalised aggregation duties
- 🟠: Duties may fail for this combination
- 🔴: One or more duties fails consistently
| Consensus 👇 Validator 👉 | Teku v24.8.0 | Lighthouse v5.3.01 | Lodestar v1.20.2 | Nimbus v24.7.0 | Prysm PR | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teku v24.8.0 | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | 🟠 | Teku bn needs the --validators-graffiti-client-append-format=DISABLED flag in order to produce blocks properly. Teku vc are only failing aggregation duties 50% of the time, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale. |
| Lighthouse v5.3.0 | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | 🟠 | Lighthouse vc are only failing aggregation duties, which are not directly penalised but impact network density at high scale. |
| Nimbus v24.7.0 | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Nimbus beacon nodes requires that you add the following flag to charon run: charon run --feature-set-enable=json_requests |
| Prysm v5.0.3 | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Prysm validator needs a particular pull request merged and released for aggregation duties to succeed. |
| Lodestar v1.20.2 | 🟡 | 🟡 | ✅ | ✅ | 🔴 |
Note:
- Blinded beacon block proposals are only supported from cluster lock version v1.7 and charon release v0.17.0 onwards.
- Prysm VC support is added from prysm version v5.0.0 onwards.
Footnotes
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sync committee and aggregator duties are not yet supported in a DV setup by Lighthouse, all other duties work as expected. ↩