Galaxy would like to move our Lido validators to our internal SOC2 compliant staking platform during the CMv2 migration. This new environment uses Lighthouse and Web3signer for the validator client and signing infrastructure. Our validators can be split between APKR, EU, and US regions or all in a single region, depending on recommendation from the foundation.
We are posting this to get DAO approval to move forward with our planned migration during the CMv2 upgrade.
Validator Summary
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Lighthouse as our validator client
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Web3signer
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MEV boost
RPC Endpoint Summary
We have redundant beacon endpoints available to our cluster. Consensus and Exec client pairs are hosted on baremetal servers in the 3 regions listed above and are as follows:
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Teku/Besu
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Lighthouse/Geth
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Lighthouse/Nethermind
We are currently reviewing our use of the above clients and are looking to diversify some of the higher use clients we have.
Managing Team
The infrastructure management will move from our existing Validator team to our Platform team which are both under the same team umbrella internally.
The operator management, onchain configuration, and communication/data submission with Lido will remain with the Validator team.
Future initiatives
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We want to help along the Lighthouse Circuit Breaker implementation (PR) in any way we can. We are volunteering to be early testers when it becomes available on both Hoodi and Mainnet.
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Our platform team will work to diversify our consensus and execution clients available.