Consolidate your Gnosis validators
After the Pectra hard fork, validator consolidations are ready to use in Gnosis chain.
Why should I consolidate my Gnosis validators?
If you’ve been running multiple validators on Gnosis Chain, consolidation can simplify your setup and bring several advantages:
1. Simplify Operations
Managing many validator keys and clients can become complex over time. Consolidating them into fewer validators helps reduce:
Configuration overhead
Monitoring burden
Risk of mistakes during upgrades or restarts
2. Optimize Costs
Each validator requires independent infrastructure resources. By consolidating:
You use less disk space, bandwidth, and processing power
You reduce maintenance costs and time
Fewer fees are required for transactions like reward claims
3. Better Reward Management
Instead of tracking rewards across many validators:
You centralize rewards into one or a few validator balances
Easier accounting and reporting
Less gas spent claiming rewards
4. Safe process
Consolidation does not change your withdrawal address or risk your funds. It simply merges balances and validator responsibilities in a protocol-safe way.
How do I consolidate my Gnosis validators?
Step 1: Go to https://consolidate.gnosischain.com/
Step 2: Connect your wallet. Remember to use the same address with which you did the staking deposit of your validators.
Step 3: You will see a list of your active validators in the UI.
Step 4: Click Summary button
Step 5: Check the validator list and the target validator. The target validator will stay and the rest will be exited. Click Consolidate Batch
Step 6: The transaction was sent, click Finish. You can check the transaction in the explorer link.
Step 7: To have more details, go to gnosischa.in to check the consolidation progress.
Step 8: Write your address in the search field highlighted.
Step 9. Click in the target validator key (the only one that has not exited status).
Step 10. Review the consolidation process.
The consolidation process might take 2-3 days. It depends on the consolidation queue at the moment of consolidation.
Now you are ready to consolidate your Gnosis validators. Good luck!