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Ethereum Mainnet

Proof-of-Stake architecture running on Layer 1.

Production Mainnet Risk Disclosure

Operating a mainnet validator or RPC endpoint involves real economic risk (e.g., slashing, downtime penalties, or server exploitation). Never store unencrypted private keys or pass validator seed phrases to non-verified scripts.

Chain & Consensus Architecture

Consensus Mechanism

Proof-of-Stake

Layer Classification

Layer 1

EVM Chain ID

Network Status

ACTIVE

Supported Client Software

EXECUTIONGo

Go-Ethereum (Geth)

Target: v1.14.8

CONSENSUSRust

Lighthouse

Target: v5.3.0

EXECUTIONC#

Nethermind

Target: v1.28.0

Empirical Hardware Requirements

Full Node

Bandwidth: 100 Mbps

CPU Baseline:

4 Cores (8 Threads)

Rec: 8 Cores (16 Threads)

Memory:

16 GB RAM

Rec: 32 GB

Storage (NVMe SSD (>= 3000 MB/s)):

2000 GB minimum baseline (Recommended: 4000 GB)

Note: Requires dedicated execution and consensus client pair. SSD IOPS is the primary performance bottleneck.

Deployment Runbooks (1)

ADVANCEDUnder Review

Ethereum Mainnet Staking Pool Architecture (Draft)

Draft research runbook for distributed validator technology (DVT) on Ethereum mainnet.

90 mins