SSV Node

This repo contains the docker-compose files needed to run an SSV distributed validator node.

It contains:

• Ethereum Execution client (Nethermind)
• Ethereum Consensus client (Lighthouse)
• SSV Distributed Validator client
• MEV-Boost client
• SSV DKG service
• Grafana monitoring service
• Prometheus metrics collection service

Getting started

A guide on how to get started using this repo to run Lido CSM can be found here.

Hardware & system requirements

• CPU: Quad-core
• RAM: 16GB
• Storage: 512GB NVME SSD (For mainnet at least 2TB)

Starting the node

To start the node first clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/cnupy/ssv-validator-node.git

Make sure your user has the docker role. If not you can use this command to add it:

sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER

Create the .env configuration file:

cd ssv-validator-node
cp .env.sample .env

To generate the operator key:

mkdir secrets
tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c 16 >> secrets/password
touch secrets/encrypted_private_key.json
docker compose run --rm ssv-node \
/go/bin/ssvnode \
generate-operator-keys \
-p password

To view the operator public key:

cat secrets/encrypted_private_key.json | jq .pubKey

Before starting the node open the .env file and set the NETWORK and SSV_OPERATOR_ID variables.

Start the node using this command:

docker compose up -d