Key Management

Types Of Keys

In staking, there are up to 4 types of keys involved. In theory they all could be independent, but in practice you can reuse the same keys for Deposit Keys, Withdrawal Keys and Fee Recipient Keys.

Signing Keys should be separate because these are the only keys that must be always available on the validator nodes, they they are the most risky ones.

Deposit Keys

Depositor Keys - the keys that are used to sing a deposit transactions, basically the keys to a wallet with 32 eth.

Signing Keys

Signing Keys — the keys that validator client uses to sign blocks when it produces it.

They are also used to exit the set of validators.

Withdrawal Keys

Withdrawal Keys - the keys to an account that allow to withdraw money after the validator was exited, and potentially allowing re-staking.

Fee Recipient Keys

These are the keys to an account where the transaction fees are being collected.

Key Management

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