These guides cover running a node and a validator on Gnosis Chain as it runs today, and stay valid until the fork. At activation the validator set retires and nodes keep only an execution client. See the move to Gnosis EEZ.
Managing an existing validator? Go to Validator withdrawals or Voluntary exit.
Nethermind Sedge
A one-click setup tool for PoS network/chain validators, this includes support for Gnosis chain mainnet and chiado testnet. Sedge takes care of the entire on-premise full node setup based on the chosen client, using generated Compose files based on the desired configuration.
Repository: https://github.com/NethermindEth/sedge
Quickstart with Nethermind Sedge:
Instructions to get started with Nethermind Sedge found here
For Chiado Test network:
Instructions for Chiado Test Network can be found here
FAQ
- My sedge-validator-blocker container has been showing
Endpoint is down, waiting 30 seconds before checking again...for more than 10 mins.- The sedge-validator-blocker ensures that the validator node doesn't start until your beacon node health endpoint returns 200. You should check if beacon node (sedge-consensus-client) is synced.
- Once the endpoint returns 200, the sedge-validator-client will start.