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
• Run a DV using the SDK

CL+VC Combinations:

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• ✅: 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

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 penalised but impact network density at high scale.
Lighthouse v5.3.0	✅	🟡	✅	✅	✅	Lighthouse validator client is only failing aggregation duties, which are not directly penalised 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 penalised 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 compatability information, please see the release notes from the most recent release of Charon.