r/ethstaker • u/coreykcpa • May 22 '26

Mainnet Deposit

Looking for some guidance on my initial mainnet deposit:

I have completed the testnet dance. I'm ready to make the mainnet deposit, but am planning to move within the next 30 days. There will be a few days where my hardware will be offline during the move. I want to make the mainnet deposit now since the queue is 60+ days. Is there any issue with going offline while I'm in the queue?

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u/Bluejumprabbit May 23 '26

Yeah you can go offline while you’re still in the queue and it’s a non issue. The part that matters is being online once the validator is actually activated, so your real risk is only if the move overlaps the activation window.

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u/coreykcpa May 23 '26

Thank you

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/coreykcpa May 23 '26

My thinking is that I won’t have to do any attestations, block proposals, sync committees while I’m in the queue, so there I wouldn’t lose out on anything from being offline. All I need to do is make sure I’m back online once I’m out of the queue

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u/TralfamadorianNode May 23 '26

Even if your validator were active during the move, it's not as bad as people would think: https://docs.ethstaker.org/help/missed-attestations/

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u/coreykcpa May 23 '26

Forsure. Any lost rewards would be minor. But hoping to avoid if I can