Deposit Ether to your validators

Requirements

• A depositdata in your prysm-user's home directory, that's created by your validator setup

Deposit Ether to your validator accounts

Settings

geth Eth1 account

Copy your geth wallet into the geth container. Run this on your node:

docker cp /path/of/your/geth/wallet geth:/root/.ethereum/goerli/keystore/your-geth-wallet

Its also possible you create a fresh geth account using

docker exec -it geth geth --goerli account new

and transfer your Ether there (command returns public key).

Edit ./vars/vars.yaml

Edit the following settings:

• geth_account needs to be your public key
• geth_account_password is your password to unlock your geth wallet
• deposit_contract Make sure this address is the correct beacon deposit address. For Prysm's own testnets check it on Prysmatic's website

Run

ansible-playbook -i inventory.eth2.yaml fund-validators.yaml

Process of the playbook:

1. Unlock geth wallet
2. Send funds to each of the validators using depositdata content
3. A new file with transaction ids and deposit data is created, its called depositdata.sent