Hello all,
We are excited to announce that our recently announced MACH AVS — a fast finality Actively Validated Service (AVS) for OP Mainnet and Arbitrum One is now live on testnet. With this, MACH AVS on the Holesky testnet is now ready to onboard ETH and LST delegators. We would like to invite you to participate and help test the AVS.
Upon successful testing, MACH will go mainnet in the coming weeks!
Background on MACH
MACH operates as an AVS, where users can delegate ETH or LSTs, alongside ALT tokens to any of the registered operators. The economic collateral deposited to secure MACH is then used to attest to the validity of a given rollup’s state; thereby offering a fast finality layer for rollups.
MACH will be the first AVS under the restaked rollup framework to serve two of the largest rollups, viz. OP Mainnet and Arbitrum One. It will offer the following core services to end users on these rollups:
- Fast confirmation for rollup transactions,
- Crypto-economic security to detect any malicious network participants,
- Decentralized validation of rollup states.
User Delegation Guide
As MACH goes to testnet, we invite delegators to restake ETH and LSTs assets to help test the AVS. This post presents a guide that will walk you through the process of delegating assets to MACH.
Restake your token
Step 0: Acquire testnet ETH, WETH or LSTs by following this guide.
Step 1: Head over to EigenLayer’s Holesky tesnet web application at https://holesky.eigenlayer.xyz/ and connect your Web3 wallet.
Step 2: In the dashboard, click “Restake Your Tokens”.
Step 3: You will now see the different restaking assets supported by EigenLayer. Select the assets that you have acquired in Step 0.
Step 4: Input the amount of tokens you would like to restake, click “Deposit” and confirm the transaction in your wallet.
At this point, you will have successfully restaked your assets via EigenLayer contracts. The next steps will allow you to delegate these restaked assets to MACH. Delegation is a way to allocate your assets to a given AVS and a given operator serving that AVS.
Delegating to an Operator running MACH AVS
Step 1: Navigate to the AVS tab on top of the web application at https://holesky.eigenlayer.xyz/.
Step 2: Hop over and select the AltLayer MACH AVS card. Once you are on the AltLayer MACH AVS information page, scroll down to the section titled “Operators running AltLayer Mach AVS”. Select the operator you would like to delegate to:
Step 3: Click Delegate and confirm the transaction in your wallet and you are done!
With these simple steps, you have successfully delegated your testnet assets to MACH AVS via an operator of your choice.
To close off, please take note of the following delegation caveats:
- Stakers can only delegate to a single operator at any given time
- Delegation is an “all or nothing” operation. You must delegate all of your available Restaked balance to a single operator
- Delegation is not possible for Native Restakers while their validators are in the activation (aka entry) queue. Native Restaked tokens must be fully Restaked and proven on-chain before they can be delegated
- If you have already delegated your stake to an operator in any quorum, all new stakes will be delegated to the same operator automatically
- If the delegated operator is no longer in the active set of an AVS (such as due to Churning in EigenDA for example), the restaker has the option to redelegate their TVL balance to another Operator. Please see the Undelegate from an Operator and Initiate Withdrawal page for specific instructions
Thank you again for being a delegator to help test MACH AVS Testnet. If you still have any questions, please head over to our Discord.
Onwards and upwards!
