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Welcome to Anchor

Anchor is a high-performance Secret Shared Validators (SSV) client written in Rust, designed to enable distributed validator technology for Ethereum staking.

SSV Overview

Secret Shared Validators (SSV) is a protocol that splits a validator key into multiple shares, distributed across different operators. Instead of running a validator on a single machine, SSV splits the validator's duties across multiple operators, creating a more resilient and decentralized staking infrastructure. This approach provides:

  • Fault Tolerance: Your validator remains online even if some operators go offline
  • No Single Point of Failure: No single operator can compromise your validator
  • Slashing Protection: Enhanced protection against slashing events
  • Decentralization: Distribute trust across multiple independent operators

Why Anchor?

Written in Rust, Anchor focuses on memory safety and security. As an independent implementation of the SSV protocol, Anchor promotes client diversity in the SSV space, reducing the risk of network-wide failures. A diverse set of client operators will significantly improve the resilience of the SSV network.

Anchor is specifically optimized for efficiency, fast consensus and networking implementation.

Contact

The best place to reach us in the #anchor channel in our Lighthouse discord server.

For security related matters, please reach out to security@sigmaprime.io and encrypt sensitive messages with our PGP key.

About This Documentation

This documentation is open source and community-driven. We welcome contributions to help improve the experience for all users.