smartnode
The CLI package for Rocket Pool smart nodes. (by rocket-pool)
rp-pi-guide
Documentation on how to install and run Rocket Pool on a Raspberry Pi. (by jclapis)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
smartnode
Posts with mentions or reviews of smartnode.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-09.
- RPL unstake rules
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CRITICAL UPGRADE FOR TEKU CLIENT + Version 1.1.1 of Rocket Pool Smartnode Stack Upgrade
Fixed a bug that prevented nonce overrides from working with nonce 0. (https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/169)
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Smartnode RC7 has been released, which includes a new version of Geth that has a critical exploit fix - please update ASAP
node sync and node deposit will now make sure your Beacon Chain client is running on the chain that Rocket Pool expects it to be running on before letting you do a deposit (https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/158).
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Last month(s) in RocketPool - June 9th - 30th July
https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/commits/testnet)
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Rocketpool node on RasPi for additional security
As many here who plan to operate a Rocketpool node probably know, the hot wallet required by the node software is a bit of a hot topic (pun intended). I opened an issue about this some time ago, and there are efforts underway by the developer team to solve this issue. Basically there will be a way to define a separate and locked withdrawal-address, where any withdrawals and RPL claims will be paid out to. This is an important security feature and should definitely be used for mainnet.
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create rocketpool validator keys offline?
Relevant issue on github about this: https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/issues/83
- Rocket Pool has successfully included Teku as a staking client in their smartnode staking platform
rp-pi-guide
Posts with mentions or reviews of rp-pi-guide.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-05.
- Raspberry Pi 4b: Geth + Lighthouse vs. OpenEthereum + Lighthouse ?
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What are your best dashboards for garfana?
Preview
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Economically rocket pool node hardware build
I'm far from a hardware expert, but from what I've read in the Rocket Pool Discord I think the most economic and resource-light option would be to run a RP node on a Raspberry Pi 4 using Nimbus as your ETH2 client. Here is u/jcrtp's guide to setting one up: https://github.com/jclapis/rp-pi-guide.
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RocketPool staking: my initial recon and questions
Hardware. General recommended minimums are 16gb RAM and a 1tb SSD nvme. But if it's within your budget to get a larger SSD then that's better for future-proofing and to reduce the frequency of which you'll need to prune the ETH1 chain data. Here's a guide that Rocket Pool dev u/jcrtp put together that shows different hardware builds from the community. https://github.com/jclapis/rocketpool.github.io/blob/main/src/guides/local/hardware.md He is staking on a Raspberry Pi (8gb RAM, he's a Pi wizard!) and has an excellent guide for that too if interested. https://github.com/jclapis/rp-pi-guide/blob/main/Overview.md
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Ethereum Researcher Carl Beek describes the energy savings of the Ethereum transition to Proof of Stake
In case anyone is curious about my 5 watt figure, I achieved it with a highly optimized configuration on a Raspberry Pi 4B. It's actually quite easy to do, it just took a while to tweak everything until I found a configuration that works well on mainnet. I've made all of those details available in my setup guide if you'd like to try replicating it.
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Reducing linux swapiness to 10 from default of 60 greatly reduces disk I/O and CPU usage.
For what it's worth, I have the users set it to 6 in my Raspberry Pi guide. I also have them set vm.vfs_cache_pressure=10 (a related setting that controls how frequently your inode cache gets invalidated).
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Rocketpool node on RasPi for additional security
To setup Rocketpool on the Raspberry Pi I temporarily plugged it into the router for internet acces and used the RasPi setup guide, leaving out the Eth1 & Eth2 client installation parts and instead putting in the IP address of the staking machine on the internal network. Generating the node wallet is of course done after unplugging. Since the node and watchtower services only need RPC access to the two Ethereum clients and no full internet access this works quite well. The only thing that has to be done manually whenever you create a new minipool (which probably won't be very often) is to copy the keystore files generated by Rocketpool onto the staking machine running the validator. Either via ssh onto the staking machine (temporarily open the port) or via USB stick.
- Which ETH 2.0 client to choose?
- What exactly is RPL? Is it different than rETH? and how does it relate to Rocket Pool staking?
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2021: What's a good approach to increase your ETH hodling
see here: https://github.com/jclapis/rp-pi-guide
What are some alternatives?
When comparing smartnode and rp-pi-guide you can also consider the following projects:
rocketpool-go - A Golang library for interacting with the Rocket Pool network.
rocketpool
rocketpool - Decentralised Ethereum Liquid Staking Protocol.
smartnode-install - The install script for a Rocket Pool smart node.
docs.rocketpool.net - Rocket Pool Documentation & Guide Hub
rocketpool-research
lighthouse - Ethereum consensus client in Rust
rocketpool-js - A javascript library for interacting with the Rocket Pool network.