Become an Ethereum Validator - Part 3 - Configure your validator

Complete all steps in Part 1 and Part 2

1. Go back to launchpad website or Medalla launchpad
2. Click "Continue" until you get to selecting your Eth 2.0 client. Select Prysm. This will provide a link at the bottom of the page to the Prysm installation website. The commands outlined below come from this site, but are streamlined.
   1. Run this command from Windows command line to download the prysm client
      • curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/master/prysm.bat --output prysm.bat
   2. Next command will start the beacon chain:
      • prysm.bat beacon-chain --http-web3provider=[REPLACE WITH URL FROM STEP 2] --medalla
        (Note the --medalla command. For mainnet, this will have to change. Currently waiting for Prysm to release mainnet client and documentation.)
   3. In another command line window, start the validator
      *prysm.bat validator accounts import --keys-dir=[REPLACE WITH DIRECTORY TO KEYS]\validator_keys

Done, your validator is running. Only a certain amount of validators are admitted per day. It can take hours, days, or even weeks before you actually start validating. On Medalla testnet, there were reports of waiting up to 16 days before validating.