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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. wallet

Step 3: You will see a list of your active validators in the UI. summary 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 List_validators

Step 6: The transaction was sent, click Finish. You can check the transaction in the explorer link. Finish

Step 7: To have more details, go to gnosischa.in to check the consolidation progress. deposits_validator

Step 8: Write your address in the search field highlighted. write_address Step 9. Click in the target validator key (the only one that has not exited status). validator_key

Step 10. Review the consolidation process. consolidation_click

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!