gnosis-consolidation

Author: Diego Mazo

docs/user/staking/gnosis-chain/consolidate-gnosis-validators.md

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+# Consolidate your Gnosis validators
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+After the Pectra hard fork, validator consolidations are ready to use in Gnosis chain. 
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+## Why should I consolidate my Gnosis validators? 
+If you’ve been running multiple validators on Gnosis Chain, consolidation can simplify your setup and bring several advantages:
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+#### 1. Simplify Operations
+
+Managing many validator keys and clients can become complex over time. Consolidating them into fewer validators helps reduce:
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+Configuration overhead
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+Monitoring burden
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+Risk of mistakes during upgrades or restarts
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+#### 2. Optimize Costs
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+Each validator requires independent infrastructure resources. By consolidating:
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+You use less disk space, bandwidth, and processing power
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+You reduce maintenance costs and time
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+Fewer fees are required for transactions like reward claims
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+#### 3. Better Reward Management
+Instead of tracking rewards across many validators:
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+You centralize rewards into one or a few validator balances
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+Easier accounting and reporting
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+Less gas spent claiming rewards
+
+#### 4. Safe process
+Consolidation does not change your withdrawal address or risk your funds. It simply merges balances and validator responsibilities in a protocol-safe way.
+
+## How do I consolidate my Gnosis validators? 
+Step 1: Go to https://consolidate.gnosischain.com/
+Step 2: Connect your wallet. Remember to use the same address with which you did the staking deposit of your validators. 
+![Continue](/img/continue.png)
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+Step 3: You will see a list of your active validators in the UI.
+![summary](/img/summary.png)
+Step 4: Click Summary button
+Step 5: Check the validator list and the target validator. The target validator will stay and the rest will be exited. Click Consolidate Batch
+![List_validators](/img/list_validators.png)
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+Step 6: The transaction was sent, click Finish. You can check the transaction in the explorer link. 
+![Finish](/img/finish.png)
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+Step 7: To have more details, go to gnosischa.in to check the consolidation progress.
+![deposits_validator](/img/deposits_validator.png)
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+Step 8: Write your address in the search field highlighted. 
+![write_address](/img/write_address.png)
+Step 9. Click in the target validator key (the only one that has not exited status).
+![validator_key](/img/validator_key.png)
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+Step 10. Review the consolidation process. 
+![consolidation_click](/img/consolidation_click.png)
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+The consolidation process might take 2-3 days. It depends on the consolidation queue at the moment of consolidation.
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+Now you are ready to consolidate your Gnosis validators. 
+Good luck!