The DVT Home Staking Curriculum
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What is this?
This is a knowledge base for Ethereum solo stakers (both native and DVT) designed with non-technical users in mind. It serves as a comprehensive curriculum for aspiring solo stakers.
With a standardised curriculum, organisations can fairly assess the proficiency of new solo stakers across the board using simple quizzes and on/off-chain deliverables when facilitating grants and incentivised test programmes.
This curriculum incorporates DVT, and native home staking methods so new solo stakers can launch their first home-based ETH validator from as little as 1 ETH.
Who is this for?
While I hope that anyone who cares about keeping the Ethereum network decentralised will find this guide helpful, the way it is written caters to the following audiences of non-technical people:
Aspiring solo/home staker trying to go from zero to one
Existing solo/home staker looking to refresh your knowledge.
How to use?
This curriculum has 2 major segments:
Segment 1: Practicing on the Testnet (current segment)
Segment 2:
Credits & Rights
This curriculum is designed collaboratively by ETHStaker and Stakesaurus, featuring Diva Staking with a grant from The Staking Foundation as a public good.
Aside from the voluntary user contribution options below, no entity is entitled to resell or commercialise the contents of this document without providing additional value.
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Other disclosures before you contribute
Stakesaurus has also received the following bounty and grants for earlier work from which this curriculum was partly adapted.
A bounty (1500 USDC) from the Stack Up x Google Cloud Challenge for creating a guide on setting up a cloud-based Ethereum validator node using the Google Cloud stack. More details are described here.
A retroactive grant (1000 DAI) from the Lido Ecosystem Grants Organisation for open-sourcing a comprehensive Ethereum home staking guide (no DVT) designed for non-technical people. More details are described here.
Stakesaurus is also a grantee of the Lido Community Lifeguards Initiative, representing the voice & interests of community operators (e.g., solo/home stakers, Lido CSM operators) to the Lido DAO.
How to get help?
Main curriculum support channel: ETHStaker's DVT Home Staker Discord server
Navigate to the "dvt-program" channel.
Weekly office hours: Daily @ 11:00am to 11:30am UTC+8
Client-specific support (Discord):
DVTs: Diva Staking
EL: Nethermind, Besu, Geth, Erigon
CL/VC: Teku, Nimbus, Lodestar, Lighthouse, Prysm
Stakesaurus public Telegram group
For those who feel shy about the options above
Note: It is best practice to get help from highly public channels such as the main curriculum & client-specific support channel above, especially when setting up for the Mainnet