For Prover Nodes

Quick overview of what it takes to get onboarded as an Operator into Fermah AVS.

Testnet is permissioned. Once you have been whitelisted, the onboarding steps are as follows:

1. Operator node installation (see here)

2. Machine Secret setup (see here)

3. Configuration setup (see here)

4. Operator registration (see here)

5. Telemetry setup (see here)

6. Starting a node (see here)

These steps will get a Prover Node onboarded into Fermah Testnet.

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Prerequisites

Registered Prover Node Accounts: Ensure you have a fully registered Prover Node account, such as with EigenLayer. If you don't have one, follow the steps in the EigenLayer User Guide to create and fund your account.

You will also need the following:

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (GLIBC 2.34+)

• Docker v24+ (we use it for running Prover images)

• CUDA drivers v12.2 (see NVIDIA docs)

• Holesky Ethereum Node RPC URL access with your API key (e.g. Alchemy, Infura or private)

• Grafana API key (provided by Fermah)

• A static and reachable public IP on selected port (e.g. 8888)

Hardware Requirements

Resources used by the Operator will vary greatly depending on the prover image that is running.

• Option 1: We will need 32 vCPUs, 128GB RAM, GPU NVIDIA L4 (24 GB DDR6 VRAM) and at least 375 gb SSD for consistent operations during Testnet.

• Option 2: 16 vCPUs, 32GB RAM, GPU NVIDIA L4 (24 GB DDR6 VRAM) and at least 375 gb SSD.