This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide for setting up and running a Sepolia testnet node on your local machine, mimicking a full node on the Ethereum mainnet. You will learn how to generate an Externally Owned Account (EOA), run the node, and set up a validator to earn rewards while contributing to Ethereum's security and decentralization.
- OS: 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X 10.14+, Windows 10+ 64-bit.
- Memory: 8 - 16 GB RAM.
- Storage: 2TB SSD for a full node running Geth and a consensus client while a "full" archive node that keeps all state back to genesis requires more than 12TB of space.
- Network: 8 MBit/sec broadband connection.
- Basic knowledge of the command line.
- Go-Ethereum (Geth) installed on your machine using a package manager Or downloaded on your machine with developer tools included Go-Ethereum .
- Prysm as consensus client
- All above requirements in addition to 32 ETH to stake on testnet &/or mainnet.