Wagyu

Download at https://wagyu.gg

Wagyu (formerly known as StakeHouse) is an application aimed at lowering the technical bar to staking on Ethereum 2.0.

Dubbed a 'one-click installer', it provides a clean UI automating the setup and management of all the infrastructure necessary to stake without the user needing to have any technical knowledge.

Disclaimer

Wagyu:

• only runs on Ubuntu (see below for more system requirements)
• is not audited - use at your own risk
• is currently experimental and still under development
• only runs on pyrmont (right now)
• does not currently do anything with real ETH or mainnet (DO NOT USE REAL ETH)

Demo

Wagyu (while it was known as StakeHouse) did a demo at the EthStaker Validator Workshop - take a look here.

Staking Resources

We are going to assume if you've gotten this far you already know about Ethereum and Ethereum 2.0, if not we suggest starting with Superphiz's overview then heading over to the EthStaker reddit and checking out our Studymaster program.

The key to the Eth2 upgrades is the introduction of staking and the transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. This transition, referred to as "The Merge", will make Ethereum more secure and sustainable while unlocking what is needed to achieve scalability through sharding. By becoming an Ethereum validator and staking your Ethereum you can do a public good, securing the network, while earning rewards.

Learn More:

• A Comprehensive overview of Eth 2.0 and Staking for beginners by Superphiz
• Proof-of-Stake FAQs Ethereum Wiki by the Ethereum Foundation
• Staking FAQs by Lamboshi
• Staking hardware guide by Lamboshi
• A country's worth of power, no more! by Carl Beekhuizen of the Ethereum Foundation

Usage

There are no releases yet, please see the setup section under development to run the latest version.

Getting Involved

Theres plenty left to do with Wagyu. If you'd like to help out come join us on the EthStaker discord, channel #stakehouse, or reach out to Colfax (discord username: colfax#1983) directly.

Also try it out (feedback welcome!), take a look our demo above, and/or browse our open issues (start by filtering by the label 'small').

Development

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04
• 16GB RAM
• SSD with 200GB free
• root access

Setup

Wagyu is a React app running in Electron and currently only runs on Ubuntu (tested on version 20.04). See src/electron/ for the simple electron app and src/react/ for where the magic happens. Feedback and help is much encouraged so please reach out!

Start by cloning this repo and enter the directory by running git clone https://github.com/stake-house/wagyu.git and cd wagyu. Then run the following:

• yarn install
• yarn build (or run yarn run build:watch in a separate terminal to hot reload your changes)
  • If you are running with build:watch after saving your changes will automatically build. In order to get them to show in the app press ctrl+r or cmd+r.
• yarn start

Installing Yarn on Ubuntu

Run the following commands:

1. sudo apt update
2. sudo apt remove cmdtest yarn
3. sudo apt install npm
4. sudo npm install -g yarn

Contribution Guidelines

To streamline contributions to React code within the Wagyu codebase, a small set of guidelines encapsulating our opinions is included here:

1. Libraries - Use styled-components for css encapsulation, rem units for any pixel sizes (potentially via the utility library polished).
2. Typescript - Make generous use of everything typescript has to offer (don't use any... ever).
3. Formatting - This codebase uses prettier (rules defined in .prettierrc) for standardized code formatting. If using vscode, the formatter will run on save, if not, be sure to run npx prettier --write "**/*.ts*" to format the code.
4. Common components - Extract commonly used typography or UI elements into the typography directory.
5. Utility Functions - Keep utility functions that don't deal with rendering outside of components.
6. Other Opinions - Refrain from using 'render' functions within functional components. Extract this logic out into a separate component instead. Refrain from using <br /> and use padding and/or margin instead.

Refer to this React style guide for more information.

Support

Reach out to the EthStaker community:

• on discord
• on reddit

License

GPL

Credits

• Wagyu uses the Rocket Pool installer to manage eth1/eth2 clients.
• EthStaker for the incredible guidance and support.
• Somer Esat's guides for the introductory knowledge.