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      • Exiting a Megapool Validator

      If you no longer want to run a megapool validator and want to access the full balance locked on the Beacon Chain, you will have to follow a couple of steps. This page serves to walk you through the process of exiting a megapool validator.

      1. Send a voluntary exit request to the Beacon Chain (manual)
      2. Notify validator exit (automated by the smart node)
      3. Notify final balance (automated by the smart node)

      Sending an Exit Request to the Beacon Chain

      To send an exit request to the Beacon Chain, use the rocketpool megapool exit-validator command in the smart node. You will be presented with a list of validators that can be exited.

      staker@node:~$ rocketpool megapool exit-validator

Please select a validator to EXIT:
1: ID: 1 - Index: 1269834 Pubkey: 0x9455594c2f02674922eb6dee40d096f3203dd1762aa7f1a988ab6c277a62418ec3abfb460b57f33f13a5922e9551d5cc
2: ID: 2 - Index: 1269835 Pubkey: 0xa188774e1adf42db768230541403347a8d2ebcd8386b7f5662bcf1004e17d8d53303889a7e527448cf29bff9bde34bb9
3: ID: 3 - Index: 1269851 Pubkey: 0xa3e211e95a542ffaf8467ba211a3d893b58c59204dab8c32df29f0cfda3f9ce485a3bc13a50e4c205f912613521ed203
4: ID: 7 - Index: 1274411 Pubkey: 0xb5369a5f8550daa07476378dc4864f08b74d4950e28c74844527b59b1e9dea9fd376ea3bd171ee8fba7de866cd4ea37e
5: ID: 8 - Index: 1275239 Pubkey: 0xa56660fa14f0cb7a7030ea0c68a075c7fd700d98ee3afb498030f2bafbadfbf29703bf8fe8ccc9e1f2332b96dcb51ee2

      Once you've selected a validator, the smart node will follow up with an additional prompt. Confirm that you've selected the validator you intend on exiting the type y, then press enter to send a voluntary exit request to the Beacon Chain. This action does not require any gas. It sends a signed message from your node to the beacon chain to voluntarily exit the validator.

      NOTE:
You are about to exit a validator. This will tell each validator to stop all activities on the Beacon Chain.
Please continue to run your validators until each one you've exited has been processed by the exit queue.
You can watch their progress on the https://beaconcha.in explorer.
Your funds will be locked on the Beacon Chain until they've been withdrawn, which will happen automatically (this may take a few days).
Once your funds have been withdrawn, you can run `rocketpool megapool notify-validator-exit` to distribute them to your withdrawal address.

Are you sure you want to EXIT validator id 1? [y/n]
y

Successfully requested to exit validator id 1.

      Your node sends a voluntary exit request to the Beacon Chain. At this point, your validator should be in the active_exiting Beacon Chain state. You can confirm this by running the rocketpool megapool validators command and checking for the validator you just requested an exit for:

      
Megapool Validator ID:        1
Validator pubkey:             0x9455594c2f02674922eb6dee40d096f3203dd1762aa7f1a988ab6c277a62418ec3abfb460b57f33f13a5922e9551d5cc
Validator active:             yes
Validator index:              1269834
Beacon status:                active_exiting
Express Ticket Used:          no
      NOTE

      Your validator will continue making attestations until it is processed by the Beacon Chain exit queue, so please keep your node online during this process! It might take a few days or longer. This website is pretty handy for checking the current queue time: https://www.validatorqueue.com/

      Notify Validator Exit

      In the previous stage active_exiting, your node was making attestations while it was subject to the Beacon Chain exit queue. The time varies depending on how much ETH is waiting to exit.

      After your validator makes it to the end of this queue, it transitions into the exited_unslashed state. At this stage, your smart node will automatically call notify validator exit, signalling to the Rocket Pool protocol that your validator has exited and is nearly withdrawable.

      WARNING

      This step is fully automated by the smart node within the rocketpool_node task loop. It's very important to keep your node online during the process, otherwise your incur a 0.05 ETH fine for being offline. The fine is deducted from your withdrawal balance. Please monitor the status of your node throughout the entire validator exit process.

      Megapool Validator ID:        1
Validator pubkey:             0x9455594c2f02674922eb6dee40d096f3203dd1762aa7f1a988ab6c277a62418ec3abfb460b57f33f13a5922e9551d5cc
Validator active:             no
Validator index:              1269834
Beacon status:                exited_unslashed
Express Ticket Used:          no

      The status on beaconcha.in should look like:

      After 256 epochs on the Beacon Chain, the full 32 ETH along with other accumulated rewards will be sent your your node's megapool.

      Notify Final Balance

      At this point, your validator is fully exited from the Beacon Chain the final withdrawal is sent from the Beacon Chain to your megapool. Your smart node will automatically call notify final balance. This call fully ends your megapool validator's duties and also distributes your portion of the balance to your node's ETH withdrawal address. If you've kept your node online and automatic duties such as notify validator exit and notify final balance were performed, no further steps are required on your end.