Project SafeStake Operator Node

Description:
SafeStake is a decentralized validation framework for performing ETH2 duties and its backend is designed on top of Lighthouse (ETH2 consensus client) and Hotstuff (a BFT consensus library).

Dependencies

Server

• Public Static Network IP
• Hardware(recommend)
  • CPU: 16
  • Memory: 32G
  • Disk: 600GB
• OS
  • Unix
• Software
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose

Set firewall rule

Installation

Login your server(jumpserver recommand)

Install Docker and Docker compose

• install docker engine
• install docker compose

Enable docker service and start it immediately.

 sudo systemctl enable docker

Create local volume directory

 sudo mkdir -p /data/geth
 sudo mkdir -p /data/lighthouse
 sudo mkdir -p /data/jwt
 sudo mkdir -p /data/operator

Generate your jwt secret to jwt dirctory

openssl rand -hex 32 | tr -d "\n" | sudo tee /data/jwt/jwtsecret

Clone operator code from github

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ParaState/SafeStakeOperator.git dvf

cd dvf
cp .env.example .env

Get your infura ws_url

• Follow the document https://docs.infura.io/infura/
• Regiter a infura account
• Create new key

• Select goerli network

• Select Websocks

• Copy your WS_URL

Use your own configuration

vim .env

Fill your WS_URL

Run

Run your operator

sudo docker compose -f  docker-compose-operator.yml up -d

Get your operator public key

sudo docker compose -f docker-compose-operator.yml logs -f operator | grep "node public key"

output

dvf-operator-1 | [2022-08-13T16:01:33.814Z INFO dvf::node::node] node public key Al0wMNz3JpkYDH7HVp93dZfLMt1GJHypLfhwOWS0NwC/

Back up your operator private key file

path

/data/operator/prater/node_key.json