Charon Distributed Validator Node

Official documentation:

Validator setup instructions

Creating and backing up a private key for charon

Update packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Install dependencies

sudo apt install curl build-essential git wget jq tmux chrony -y

Install Docker

sudo -i
cd $HOME
apt purge docker docker-engine docker.io containerd docker-compose -y
rm /usr/bin/docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh get-docker.sh
systemctl restart docker
curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.5.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

Creating an enr private key

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/ObolNetwork/charon-distributed-validator-node.git

# change directory
cd charon-distributed-validator-node

# create charon ENR private key, this will create a charon-enr-private-key file in the .charon directory
docker run --rm -v "$(pwd):/opt/charon" ghcr.io/obolnetwork/charon:v0.8.1 create enr

You should expect to see a console output like

Created ENR private key: .charon/charon-enr-private-key
enr:-JG4QGQpV4qYe32QFUAbY1UyGNtNcrVMip83cvJRhw1brMslPeyELIz3q6dsZ7GblVaCjL_8FKQhF6Syg-O_kIWztimGAYHY5EvPgmlk
gnY0gmlwhH8AAAGJc2VjcDI1NmsxoQKzMe_GFPpSqtnYl-mJr8uZAUtmkqccsAx7ojGmFy-FY4N0Y3CCDhqDdWRwgg4u

!! Backup this private key

Fill form

Submit the created ENR public address (the console output starting with enr:-... not the contents of the private key file) to the appropriate typeform.