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Why Participate?

Opt-in adds your L1 keys to the mev-commit validator coalition. The coalition is a single signal across a large key set: mev-forward, innovation-forward, and active in Ethereum policy (EF and related groups) on clients, staking, validators, and yield. It is not a live payout from a commitment market. You keep your existing relay set. No fees are enabled at this stage. There is no fee switch without your approval. When members approve a fee and it is enabled, that fee funds AI research on Ethereum. Founding members are granted tokens in proportion to their contributions. Details: Why should validators opt in.

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Requirements

  1. An operational L1 validator node.
  2. An operational mev-boost or other sidecar.
  3. 3 ETH worth of stake or restake per validator, or 1,000 ETH worth per operator entity.
As an opted-in validator, you can keep your existing mev-boost relay set unchanged. There is no requirement to take blocks only from a registered provider set.
By opting in in one of the three forms described, you add keys to the coalition roster (Hub-true). Keep your existing relay configuration. Historical bidder and provider node docs are under mev-commit chain and p2p and are not the reason to opt in.
No fees are enabled at this stage. There is no fee switch without your approval. Members must actively approve any coalition fee before it starts. When a fee is approved and enabled, it funds AI research on Ethereum clients, validators, staking, and yield policy, including a step toward about 1% of validator yield. Founding members are granted tokens sized to match or exceed fees they contribute. The token is the right to create proposals for holders to accept.
Use any relay. Opted-in validators can run any mev-boost relay set. There is no curated list of supporting relays. Your existing mev-boost configuration works as-is.
Proposers who fall back to local block production are not slashed for that. See flashbots docs.

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How to opt in

The validator dashboard is deprecated. Use the mev-commit-opt-in skill from primev.xyz/ai. Any mev-boost relay set is fine. There is no relay configuration step.

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Choose Your Opt-In Method

Note each validator pubkey should only opt-in using one of the three methods described below. Prefer the agentic skill. The cards below are the contract-level detail pages.

Eigenlayer Restaking

Click here for more information on native restaking with mev-commit’s AVS

Symbiotic Restaking

Click here for more information on ERC20 restaking with mev-commit’s middleware contract

Simple Staking

Click here for more information on “vanilla” staking with mev-commit

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Protocol Design

To learn more about the protocol design for any of the registries, see their respective READMEs: To query the on-chain parameters of any registry (on mainnet or Hoodi), run an example forge script like this.

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Why Should Validators Opt In?

Coalition, policy, future fees, AI research, and founding-member tokens.