This repo contains the source code for the distributed validator client Charon (pronounced 'kharon'); a HTTP middleware client for Ethereum Staking that enables you to safely run a single validator across a group of independent nodes.
Charon is accompanied by a webapp called the Distributed Validator Launchpad for distributed validator key creation.
Charon is used by stakers to distribute the responsibility of running Ethereum Validators across a number of different instances and client implementations.
The easiest way to test out charon is with the charon-distributed-validator-cluster repo which contains a docker compose setup for running a full charon cluster on your local machine.
The Obol Docs website is the best place to get started. The important sections are intro, key concepts and charon.
For detailed documentation on this repo, see the docs folder:
There is always the charon godocs for the source code documentation.
See dvt.obol.tech for the latest status of the Obol Network including which upstream consensus clients and which downstream validators are supported.
Considering semver as the project's versioning scheme, two given versions of Charon are:
MAJOR
number is the same, MINOR
and PATCH
numbers differMAJOR
number differsThere are several reasons to justify a new MAJOR
release, for example:
The charon dkg
subcommand is more restrictive than this general compatibility promise; all peers should use matchingMAJOR
andMINOR
versions of Charon for the DKG process, patch versions may differ though it is recommended to use the latest patch of any version.