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Voluntary Exit

If you decide to stop validating and disable your node, you can initiate a voluntary exit. This will freeze your balance at its current value (rewards and/or penalties will no longer accrue).

If you initiate a voluntary exit, your validator can fully withdraw to the configured execution withdrawal address once exit processing is complete. See validator withdrawals for withdrawal credential details.

Voluntary exit procedures vary depending on your client.

caution

Exits are non-reversible; once you have exited you cannot restart your validator.

It is recommended to set execution withdrawal credentials before exiting your validator. Updating credentials later, after your node is stopped, can be more difficult. See validator withdrawals.

Dappnode​

Navigate to the Stakers > Gnosis Chain menu, click on the "Upload Keystores" button on the Web3Signer card. Once you are in the Web3Signer UI, select the validators you want to exit and click on the "Exit Validator" button on the top right part of the UI. Follow the instructions and type I want to exit, followed then click the "Exit" button.

Lighthouse​

In order to initiate an exit, users can use the lighthouse account validator exit command.

lighthouse --network gnosis account validator exit --keystore /path/to/keystore --beacon-node http://consensus:5052

Lodestar​

Follow the syntax of the Lodestar CLI commands and their options.

validator voluntary-exit --network gnosis --pubkeys 0xF00

Nimbus​

To perform a voluntary exit, make sure your beacon node is running with the --rest option enabled, then run:

build/nimbus_beacon_node deposits exit --data-dir=build/data/shared_gnosis_0 --validator=<VALIDATOR_PUBLIC_KEY>

Teku​

Use the voluntary-exit subcommand to initiate a voluntary exit for specified validators.

teku voluntary-exit --beacon-node-api-endpoint=http://consensus:5051 \
--validator-keys=validator/keys/validator_ABC.json:validator/passwords/validator_ABC.txt