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Validator Client API: Endpoints

Endpoints

HTTP Path Description
GET /lighthouse/version Get the Lighthouse software version
GET /lighthouse/health Get information about the host machine
GET /lighthouse/spec Get the Eth2 specification used by the validator
GET /lighthouse/validators List all validators
GET /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey Get a specific validator
PATCH /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey Update a specific validator
POST /lighthouse/validators Create a new validator and mnemonic.
POST /lighthouse/validators/mnemonic Create a new validator from an existing mnemonic.

GET /lighthouse/version

Returns the software version and git commit hash for the Lighthouse binary.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/version
Method GET
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Example Response Body

{
    "data": {
        "version": "Lighthouse/v0.2.11-fc0654fbe+/x86_64-linux"
    }
}

GET /lighthouse/health

Returns information regarding the health of the host machine.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/health
Method GET
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Note: this endpoint is presently only available on Linux.

Example Response Body

{
    "data": {
        "pid": 1476293,
        "pid_num_threads": 19,
        "pid_mem_resident_set_size": 4009984,
        "pid_mem_virtual_memory_size": 1306775552,
        "sys_virt_mem_total": 33596100608,
        "sys_virt_mem_available": 23073017856,
        "sys_virt_mem_used": 9346957312,
        "sys_virt_mem_free": 22410510336,
        "sys_virt_mem_percent": 31.322334,
        "sys_loadavg_1": 0.98,
        "sys_loadavg_5": 0.98,
        "sys_loadavg_15": 1.01
    }
}

GET /lighthouse/spec

Returns the Eth2 specification loaded for this validator.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/spec
Method GET
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Example Response Body

{
    "data": {
        "CONFIG_NAME": "mainnet",
        "MAX_COMMITTEES_PER_SLOT": "64",
        "TARGET_COMMITTEE_SIZE": "128",
        "MIN_PER_EPOCH_CHURN_LIMIT": "4",
        "CHURN_LIMIT_QUOTIENT": "65536",
        "SHUFFLE_ROUND_COUNT": "90",
        "MIN_GENESIS_ACTIVE_VALIDATOR_COUNT": "1024",
        "MIN_GENESIS_TIME": "1601380800",
        "GENESIS_DELAY": "172800",
        "MIN_DEPOSIT_AMOUNT": "1000000000",
        "MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE": "32000000000",
        "EJECTION_BALANCE": "16000000000",
        "EFFECTIVE_BALANCE_INCREMENT": "1000000000",
        "HYSTERESIS_QUOTIENT": "4",
        "HYSTERESIS_DOWNWARD_MULTIPLIER": "1",
        "HYSTERESIS_UPWARD_MULTIPLIER": "5",
        "PROPORTIONAL_SLASHING_MULTIPLIER": "3",
        "GENESIS_FORK_VERSION": "0x00000002",
        "BLS_WITHDRAWAL_PREFIX": "0x00",
        "SECONDS_PER_SLOT": "12",
        "MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY": "1",
        "MIN_SEED_LOOKAHEAD": "1",
        "MAX_SEED_LOOKAHEAD": "4",
        "MIN_EPOCHS_TO_INACTIVITY_PENALTY": "4",
        "MIN_VALIDATOR_WITHDRAWABILITY_DELAY": "256",
        "SHARD_COMMITTEE_PERIOD": "256",
        "BASE_REWARD_FACTOR": "64",
        "WHISTLEBLOWER_REWARD_QUOTIENT": "512",
        "PROPOSER_REWARD_QUOTIENT": "8",
        "INACTIVITY_PENALTY_QUOTIENT": "16777216",
        "MIN_SLASHING_PENALTY_QUOTIENT": "32",
        "SAFE_SLOTS_TO_UPDATE_JUSTIFIED": "8",
        "DOMAIN_BEACON_PROPOSER": "0x00000000",
        "DOMAIN_BEACON_ATTESTER": "0x01000000",
        "DOMAIN_RANDAO": "0x02000000",
        "DOMAIN_DEPOSIT": "0x03000000",
        "DOMAIN_VOLUNTARY_EXIT": "0x04000000",
        "DOMAIN_SELECTION_PROOF": "0x05000000",
        "DOMAIN_AGGREGATE_AND_PROOF": "0x06000000",
        "MAX_VALIDATORS_PER_COMMITTEE": "2048",
        "SLOTS_PER_EPOCH": "32",
        "EPOCHS_PER_ETH1_VOTING_PERIOD": "32",
        "SLOTS_PER_HISTORICAL_ROOT": "8192",
        "EPOCHS_PER_HISTORICAL_VECTOR": "65536",
        "EPOCHS_PER_SLASHINGS_VECTOR": "8192",
        "HISTORICAL_ROOTS_LIMIT": "16777216",
        "VALIDATOR_REGISTRY_LIMIT": "1099511627776",
        "MAX_PROPOSER_SLASHINGS": "16",
        "MAX_ATTESTER_SLASHINGS": "2",
        "MAX_ATTESTATIONS": "128",
        "MAX_DEPOSITS": "16",
        "MAX_VOLUNTARY_EXITS": "16",
        "ETH1_FOLLOW_DISTANCE": "1024",
        "TARGET_AGGREGATORS_PER_COMMITTEE": "16",
        "RANDOM_SUBNETS_PER_VALIDATOR": "1",
        "EPOCHS_PER_RANDOM_SUBNET_SUBSCRIPTION": "256",
        "SECONDS_PER_ETH1_BLOCK": "14",
        "DEPOSIT_CONTRACT_ADDRESS": "0x48b597f4b53c21b48ad95c7256b49d1779bd5890"
    }
}

GET /lighthouse/validators

Lists all validators managed by this validator client.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/validators
Method GET
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Example Response Body

{
    "data": [
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "description": "validator one",
            "voting_pubkey": "0xb0148e6348264131bf47bcd1829590e870c836dc893050fd0dadc7a28949f9d0a72f2805d027521b45441101f0cc1cde"
        },
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "description": "validator two",
            "voting_pubkey": "0xb0441246ed813af54c0a11efd53019f63dd454a1fa2a9939ce3c228419fbe113fb02b443ceeb38736ef97877eb88d43a"
        },
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "description": "validator three",
            "voting_pubkey": "0xad77e388d745f24e13890353031dd8137432ee4225752642aad0a2ab003c86620357d91973b6675932ff51f817088f38"
        }
    ]
}

GET /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey

Get a validator by their voting_pubkey.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey
Method GET
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200, 400

Example Path

localhost:5062/lighthouse/validators/0xb0148e6348264131bf47bcd1829590e870c836dc893050fd0dadc7a28949f9d0a72f2805d027521b45441101f0cc1cde

Example Response Body

{
    "data": {
        "enabled": true,
        "voting_pubkey": "0xb0148e6348264131bf47bcd1829590e870c836dc893050fd0dadc7a28949f9d0a72f2805d027521b45441101f0cc1cde"
    }
}

PATCH /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey

Update some values for the validator with voting_pubkey.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/validators/:voting_pubkey
Method PATCH
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200, 400

Example Path

localhost:5062/lighthouse/validators/0xb0148e6348264131bf47bcd1829590e870c836dc893050fd0dadc7a28949f9d0a72f2805d027521b45441101f0cc1cde

Example Request Body

{
    "enabled": false
}

Example Response Body

null

POST /lighthouse/validators/

Create any number of new validators, all of which will share a common mnemonic generated by the server.

A BIP-39 mnemonic will be randomly generated and returned with the response. This mnemonic can be used to recover all keys returned in the response. Validators are generated from the mnemonic according to EIP-2334, starting at index 0.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/validators
Method POST
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Example Request Body

[
    {
        "enable": true,
        "description": "validator_one",
        "deposit_gwei": "32000000000"
    },
    {
        "enable": false,
        "description": "validator two",
        "deposit_gwei": "34000000000"
    }
]

Example Response Body

{
    "data": {
        "mnemonic": "marine orchard scout label trim only narrow taste art belt betray soda deal diagram glare hero scare shadow ramp blur junior behave resource tourist",
        "validators": [
            {
                "enabled": true,
                "description": "validator_one",
                "voting_pubkey": "0x8ffbc881fb60841a4546b4b385ec5e9b5090fd1c4395e568d98b74b94b41a912c6101113da39d43c101369eeb9b48e50",
                "eth1_deposit_tx_data": "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",
                "deposit_gwei": "32000000000"
            },
            {
                "enabled": false,
                "description": "validator two",
                "voting_pubkey": "0xa9fadd620dc68e9fe0d6e1a69f6c54a0271ad65ab5a509e645e45c6e60ff8f4fc538f301781193a08b55821444801502",
                "eth1_deposit_tx_data": "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",
                "deposit_gwei": "34000000000"
            }
        ]
    }
}

POST /lighthouse/validators/mnemonic

Create any number of new validators, all of which will share a common mnemonic.

The supplied BIP-39 mnemonic will be used to generate the validator keys according to EIP-2334, starting at the supplied key_derivation_path_offset. For example, if key_derivation_path_offset = 42, then the first validator voting key will be generated with the path m/12381/3600/i/42.

HTTP Specification

Property Specification
Path /lighthouse/validators/mnemonic
Method POST
Required Headers Authorization
Typical Responses 200

Example Request Body

{
    "mnemonic": "theme onion deal plastic claim silver fancy youth lock ordinary hotel elegant balance ridge web skill burger survey demand distance legal fish salad cloth",
    "key_derivation_path_offset": 0,
    "validators": [
        {
            "enable": true,
            "description": "validator_one",
            "deposit_gwei": "32000000000"
        }
    ]
}

Example Response Body

{
    "data": [
        {
            "enabled": true,
            "description": "validator_one",
            "voting_pubkey": "0xa062f95fee747144d5e511940624bc6546509eeaeae9383257a9c43e7ddc58c17c2bab4ae62053122184c381b90db380",
            "eth1_deposit_tx_data": "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",
            "deposit_gwei": "32000000000"
        }
    ]
}