🔑Obol Key Splitting
These instructions are used by Ether.fi to split the keys into keyshares for the Obol DVT validators.
As a solo staker, you do not need to follow or even understand the steps, but they are provided here for your interest.
Step 1: Clone the charon repo
Clone the charon repo into a new directory called charon-key-splitter
.
Step 2: Create a directory containing keys to split
Copy the existing validator keystore.json
files into this new folder. Alongside them, with a matching filename but ending with .txt
should be the password to the keystore. E.g., keystore-0.json
keystore-0.txt
. These matching .txt
files can be generated with a bash script.
At the start of this process, you should have a file tree that looks something like this.
Create the bash script file.
Save this script and make it executable.
Run the script.
At the end of this process, you should have a tree like this.
Step 3: Split the keys into keyshares
Split the validator keys into keyshares.
In the .charon
directory there will now be a cluster
directory containing sub-directories, each named node0
, node1
, etc.
I can't see the .charon
directory?! 👀
On most filesystems, files and directories that start with a . are hidden by default.
On a Unix system (Mac or Linux) on the command line you can see hidden files and directories using the -a
flag for the ls
command:
Each solo staker participate will receive one of these directories in a compressed format. The exact format depends on the machine being used. The file formats needed for Avado and Dappnode machines are slightly different and are explained below.
Avado requires the files to be uploaded in a .zip
format.
Make sure you are in the .charon/cluster/
directory with all the node*
directories.
For each node directory, compress the folder using the following command:
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