So you got your Dappnode and want to know how to get your 4 Gnosis Chain validators?

Here are the prerequisites:

• You must have purchased a Dappnode from dappnode.com during the promotional period (ended May 23’)
• You must have given us a Gnosis Chain address you control for us to whitelist during that purchase, or contacted support on our Discord
• You have set up your dappnode so you can use it
• You can do steps 1 to 3 right now. For step 4, you need to make sure that 20 days have passed since receiving your Dappnode

Step 1: Installation of the Staking Setup

You need to be running a Gnosis Chain node in order to validate. A node consists of an Execution Layer Client (EL) and a Consensus Layer Client (CL) + Validator.

Luckily, you can do that with only a few clicks with Dappnode! You need to go to the Stakers tab on the Dappnode Main Menu:

You will need to choose one package per column: 1 Execution Client (Nethermind), 1 Consensus client, (we recommend either Lighthouse or Teku, which have official support from the implementer teams, but not Prysm, which hasn’t) and the web3signer.

When configuring the Consensus Client you will need to choose 3 paramenters:

1. Fee recipient address. This is where you will receive the fees coming from the transactions included in the blocks you propose. It’s an address you control in Gnosis Chain - can be hardware wallet, Frame or MetaMask or even a Smart Contract wallet
2. Graffiti. Every slot you propose will include the text you want in here! I suggest you keep the word Dappnode in it so we can know that this is a Dappnode validator and care for it!
3. Checkpoint Sync. Without getting technical, this will help you sync your Beacon Chain from a trusted checkpoint. It is the recommended way of syncing and unless you want to sync from another node you control, I wouldn’t change the value.

After you’ve chosen from the 3 columns (EL, CL and Remote Signer), click on accept changes.

Now your Dappnode will install the 3 pieces of software and pre-configure them for you! Time to let the nodes sync and move on to the next steps.