General

Ethpool is a non-custodial solo staking pool for Ethereum. A stake of 32 ETH per validator is required.

A guide is available here.

To start staking, you need to create validator keys and deposit 32 ETH into a smart contract "deposit contract", which allows the corresponding validator to propose blocks and attest ("stake"). The validator node needs to be online in order to propose blocks or sign attestations to receive rewards.

Ethpool will take care of running your validator once you have uploaded your validator keys to Ethpool.

Ethpool uses Lighthouse and Nethermind. Mitigating the risk of supermajority client slashing and contributing to the network's overall health and stability.

Ethpool uses Flashbots (Relay), Ultrasound (Relay) and Agnostic (Relay).

Income & Fees

The current APR for staking is around 6% based on ETH.STORE®1.


Plankton Fee Tier

32 ETH (1 active Validator)

Duty
 
Projected APR
Based on ETH.STORE®1
Ethpool Fee
 
You Receive
 
Attestation ~2.34% 0 % ~2.34%
Sync Committee ~0.09% 0 % ~0.09%
Block Proposal ~0.35% 0 % ~0.35%
Transactions (+ MEV) ~0.49% 15 % ~0.41%
~3.27% ~3.20%


Goldfish Fee Tier

96 ETH (3 active Validator)

Duty
 
Projected APR
Based on ETH.STORE®1
Ethpool Fee
 
You Receive
 
Attestation ~2.34% 0 % ~2.34%
Sync Committee ~0.09% 0 % ~0.09%
Block Proposal ~0.35% 0 % ~0.35%
Transactions (+ MEV) ~0.49% 10 % ~0.44%
~3.27% ~3.22%


Whale Fee Tier 3

960 ETH (30 active Validator)

Duty
 
Projected APR
Based on ETH.STORE®1
Ethpool Fee
 
You Receive
 
Attestation ~2.34% 0 % ~2.34%
Sync Committee ~0.09% 0 % ~0.09%
Block Proposal ~0.35% 0 % ~0.35%
Transactions (+ MEV) ~0.49% 8 % ~0.45%
~3.27% ~3.23%

If the payout and gas price thresholds are met, Ethpool will pay the customer out. Multiple payouts per day are possible if thresholds are met.


Gas Limit & Gas Price for payouts

We recommend looking up the current gas prices here and setting the gas price limit in your settings accordingly in order to guarantee consistent payouts. Please consider that the higher your gas price limit is, the more likely payouts are going to happen.

In order to guarantee a timely payout you can set the gas price to:
Gas Price = Current gas price ("Rapid") * 2
Gas fee 'refunds' resulting from EIP-1559-type transactions will be credited to the user.

Ethpool

1. Method (recommended)

Follow the new onboarding flow and smoothly set up your validator by depositing with MetaMask or WalletConnect.


2. Method (manually create your keys)

a) Use the official Staking Deposit-cli to create validator keys. Store the keys and passwords safely!

b) Import the deposit.json file from a) to the official Launchpad to fund your validator.

c) Once funded with 32 ETH, upload the keystore.json file from a) to ethpool.org

The keystore.json file only contains the validator keys, not the withdrawal keys. In other words, Ethpool, does not have access to your deposited 32 ETH but can stake on your behalf.

A guide is available here.

Staking involves two keys. One for performing your validator duties and generating a reward. And the other one to withdraw your stake and rewards.

Ethpool only has access to the key that performs validator duties. We do not have access to any funds involved. You stay in full control of your involved ether.

Deep dive into Ethereum 2.0 keys

No. There are no hardware requirements.

No. As a non-custodial staking pool, we do not have access to any of your funds involved.

Yes. The stop process is prone to slashing because running the validator keys twice is malicious. Before you switch pools or stake yourself, please contact our support Freshdesk or Discord and we will stop the validator process securely.

No. Uploading the keys to a different service or staking yourself may result in a slashing event. Running the validator twice (uploading it to multiple services and/or running the keys yourself) is not tolerated by the protocol and the validator will be punished by losing up to 32 ETH.

You can find more information on "Can I exit my validator or switch pools at any time?".

Support

We have a dedicated channel (#ethpool-solo-staking) on our Discord server.

Join us!

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ETH.STORE® is not made available for use as a benchmark, whether in relation to a financial instrument, financial contract or to measure the performance of an investment fund, or otherwise in a way that would require it to be administered by a benchmark administrator pursuant to the EU Benchmarks Regulation. Currently Bitfly does not grant any right to access or use ETH.STORE® for such purpose.