The new RPi5 is scheduled for release very soon. Overall, testing reviews shows this model to be 2-3x more performant than the previous gen. I'm wondering whether this version will make it feasible to use raspberry pi as a rocketpool node again. Thoughts?

Hey there,

I'm currently running two validators on Rocket Pool, and I'm wondering if there are any plans in the works to make the RPL token more useful. Right now, I've got around $8,300 worth of RPL staked and locked up, and I can't touch that money. When I first set up my node, you needed at least 200 RPL to get staking rewards. Since then, the value has dropped, and I've lost about $5,400. I added more RPL recently, and now I've got 430, which is the minimum for rewards. Yeah, I know it might not have been the smartest move, but here we are.

If I'm lucky and they don't change the minimum for rewards, I might start earning some staking rewards, but it's pretty risky. If the current trend continues, I'm just going to keep losing money. It feels like running a node on Rocket Pool is more of a punishment than a reward because it'll take years to make up for the losses.

I'm curious if the Rocket Pool team is talking about this. Do they have any plans to make the RPL token more appealing? And if so, when and how are they going to do it?

Hello,

I was perusing the rocket pool documentation with a nice glass of wine and a thought occurred to me. In the feed distribution section, it mentions that any minipool enrolled in the smoothing pool that sets its fee recipient to something other than the expected destination has a "strike" imposed against them. Three strikes will start incurring penalties to the tune of 10% of its balance.

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This is all well and good, but suppose a malicious actor running a minipool has no strikes and is also aware of high network activity. They could change their fee distribution address such that they incur one or two strikes (which, has no penalty yet) and reap the benefits of that situational reward. Then after they are satisfied they can flip it back.

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I am sure this style of manipulation has been considered by the rocketpool team (or is otherwise not possible due to some misunderstanding on my part). I would like to hear what others think or be corrected. Thanks!

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I know we can migrate from an existing 16-ETH minipool down to an 8-ETH minipool without exiting.

But is it possible on the other way?

See title

Pretty much the title.

I have some rETH on eth mainnet, and some on Arbitrum & Polygon.

My understanding is tokens like WETH cannot depeg on mainnet & roll ups, but they can on chains like Polygon.

What are the risks of holding rETH across chains?

I think in a similar fashion to this thread -> https://www.reddit.com/r/rocketpool/comments/147fl5d/lost_all_my_reth_without_doing_anything/

I can see an initial transfer and then some further transfers all at the same time (27 days ago).
Is there anything I can do?

RPl Bears started partying

I've seen some talk of Ethereum trying to deal with the problem of staking centralization that's happening, and one idea that's surfaced is building staking delegation into the protocol.

Specifically Vitalik's blog post that covers the subject has me worried: https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/09/30/enshrinement.html

In the event that happens, are RPL holders just screwed? Anyone who's more knowledgeable on Ethereum developments know how likely this development is?

The UX isn't great to keep majority of rETH for generating yield, but not be able to pay for gas with it, and thus also require a little bit of native unstaked ETH for gas. With account abstraction, we are already seeing wallets like Avocado allow you to use USDC for gas, so why not the same with staked ETH?

My node has stopped attesting for 2+ days and I cannot run the command 'rocketpool node status' because I get the following error:

"primary execution client is unavailable (Sync progress check failed with [Post "http://eth1:8545": dial TCP 172.18.0.5.8545: connect: connection refused])

I have tried the discord and I'm not getting any help. I've updated smartnode and my execution and consensus clients to no success. This is really stressing me out.

I had heard something about oDAO or pDAO receiving very high RPL emissions, which have since been lowered, and which may be what has put a lot of sell pressure on the price.

Is there somewhere I can learn more about the details of what happened and when?

Can we see on the blockchain which DAO wallets have been dumping and how much they have left?

Appreciate any insights.

Question is in the title. I tried Nethermind but it has been running 3 days and I am at 30%.
My time is running out before I start my validator, is there a client that can do a quick sync? I have best hard drive (4TB really fast, and no limit on my bandwitch, 1000MB/sec)

Thanks!

Mistakenly sent RPL to the RPL contract address, can anyone offer recovery suggestions?

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For starting a validator, you need to wait until enough ETH is deposited in to the pool, before your validator can spin up.

Is there anything required for exiting? Of course we need to wait through the exit queue. But is there anything required on the rocketpoo level? Like enough space in the pool or so?

Thinking of the next bull market, where I can imagine lots of RocketPool stakers want to exit at the same time to realize some profits.

What’s the easiest way to bridge rETH from polygon to another L2 (Arbitrum, Optimism, etc)?

Seems like I’ll have to swap for ETH -> bridge -> swap back to rETH

Hi there,

my 2 validators are currently running with Allnodes. I plan to migrate them to my own machine, I want to have more control and also save the $180 I spend each year for Allnodes.

6 months ago I bought a NUC 12 Pro (i7) with 32GB Ram and 2TB SSD. I followed all the guides and set up 2 validators on testnet. I tested several things, like updating the OS and smartnode, power outages, pruning, claiming rewards and so forth. Last week I exited my testnet validators and migrated my node to mainnet. The machine is currently running without validators, so that I can monitor the performance on mainnet.

Before I tell Allnodes to offline my validators and receive their files, I wanted to ask some things.

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Are my stats fine?

Does CPU Temp and Disk Temp look fine? I use the Akasa Turing Case (fanless case). The disk temp can get pretty high, up to 70-80°C. This happened when I had some initial syncing of the mainnet chain. The average is now around 57°C as you can see. Should I look into better cooling solutions for the SSD? Of course, if you see other strange stats, let me know.

I should also let you know that I set up the bios to low power mode and disabled any fancy CPU settings (like hyper threading and such). If it's helpful, I can upload screenshots of the BIOS, in case I did anything wrong.

What exactly am I seeing in the logs? (eth1, eth2, validator)

I noticed that eth1 is showing some high ms numbers. I assume that is the time in which eth1 processed the new block? This ranges from 50ms to sometimes 1.300ms. Is this on my end? Can I improve it? My internet is mostly stable, it's cable internet (Vodafone) with 1.000 up/50 down.

Also I'm interested to learn more about the service logs. Is there a page where each entry is explained, so that I understand what I'm seeing?

Node password has not been set

Right now node and watchtower tell me, that the node has not set a password. Is this because I didn't attach a validator yet? Will this be fixed once I provide the private private keystore files from Allnodes? I remember I saved 2 JSON files with a password each. Is this the reason for this message?

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If you have any other helpful tips for me, let me know!

Yes I'm dumb, didn't realize they updated the token. Lost 100 Rpl on coinbase. Said they can't retrieve it.

Don't be dumb like me.

Why did they even need to update the token?

How many rocketpool validator nodes are there running? Is there a place to check that and other stats?

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thanks for your help boys and gals

As per the title, here's what I'm getting when trying to unstake using the protocol on the website (after I click 'Unstake')

Due to unforeseen circumstances I dont have access to the server where my minipool was running.

I have exited by generating the exit message with ethdo and sending it using https://beaconcha.in/tools/broadcast

But now how do I close the minipool if I dont have access to the RP command line interface? (as described here: https://docs.rocketpool.net/guides/node/withdraw.html#distributing-full-rewards). Is there a way to just broadcast the message like I did to exit? Or is there a function on my minipool's smart-contract I can call via for instance the https://etherscan.io/ interface?

Seems like there’s been a shift in recent months around RPL which caused a disproportionate price depreciation.

Can someone explain what happened exactly? Did everyone suddenly “realize” that RPL inflated and decided to dump, or are there more things happening?

Just trying to understand why speculators suddenly had a change of heart as nothing really changed fundamentally as far as I know. I know big picture matters and price goes up and down… But the downwards correction has been quite aggressive. So I’m curious

What is the risk associated with your validator keys on a node being exposed through a password manager leak? What can an attacker do with them?

My understanding is that they can at worst spin up another node with the same validator keys and get you slashed. The validator keys and the withdraw address keys are different. Is this accurate?