Problem with validators

General Gnosis Chain
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Deposits Not Being Processed - 17+ Hours Delay

Problem Description

I made 20 validator deposits on Gnosis Chain approximately 17 hours ago, but they have not been picked up by the beacon chain. The deposits are confirmed on the execution layer but are not appearing in the beacon state.

Technical Details

Deposit Information:

  • Number of validators: 20
  • Deposit block: 47468606
  • Deposit contract: 0x0B98057eA310F4d31F2a452B414647007d1645d9
  • Time elapsed: ~17 hours (as of 2026-07-31 09:00 UTC)
  • Transaction hash: 0x5ceb0a1b3f5749605208c9a2d5f4f232c72d1bd1d4dec94ae32e2fe74b574d77
  • Transaction status: Success (batch deposit of 20 validators in 1 transaction)
  • Deposit events in logs: 22 (20 validators + 2 other events)
  • From address: 0xd5dc84e04a12cd8613635f0d47e13aabc896372e

Beacon Chain Status:

  • Beacon node is fully synced (sync distance: 0)
  • beacon_eth1_deposit_total metric: 0.0 (receiving zero deposits)
  • beacon_eth1_block_cache_size metric: 0.0 (no eth1 monitoring)
  • Public explorers (dora.gnosischain.com) show “Not Found” for all validators
  • Local activation queue shows 6 pending validators, none are ours

Configuration:

  • Execution client: Nethermind 1.39.0
  • Consensus client: Teku (latest)

What We’ve Verified

  1. :white_check_mark: Deposit transactions are confirmed on-chain
  2. :white_check_mark: Deposit contract address is correct
  3. :white_check_mark: Deposit amounts are correct (1 GNO per validator)
  4. :white_check_mark: Beacon node is synced and healthy
  5. :white_check_mark: Execution client is synced and responding to requests
  6. :cross_mark: No recent deposits on the network in the last 1000 blocks
  7. :cross_mark: Beacon is not monitoring eth1 (cache size = 0)
  8. :cross_mark: Validators not appearing in beacon state

What We’ve Tried

  1. Restarted the entire node (Nethermind + Teku)
  2. Verified beacon can connect to execution engine
  3. Checked public explorers - validators not found
  4. Monitored beacon metrics - no deposit activity

Questions

  1. Is there a known issue with deposit processing on Gnosis Chain currently?
  2. Are other validators experiencing similar delays?
  3. Is there additional configuration needed for Teku to monitor deposits in post-merge?
  4. Should we wait longer, or is there an action we should take?
  5. Is there a way to manually trigger deposit processing?

Additional Information

  • No errors in beacon logs related to deposits
  • Execution client logs show normal operation
  • Network appears healthy (producing blocks, finalizing)
  • This is a fresh validator setup (first time depositing these keys)

Request

Any guidance on resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. We want to ensure we don’t take any actions that could result in duplicate deposits or loss of funds.

Thank you for your help!

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Hello @wolfgnosis , welcome!

Yeah, don’t worry your deposits are correctly reflected on the consensus explorer Beaconchain (Beaconchain is way more detailled than Dora), if you search your withdrawal address, you will find the list of validators : Deposits - beaconchain.gnosischain.com - beaconcha.in - 2026 and you can then open each of them individually it you click the link under the “Validator Key” column, where you should see this view:

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Which indicates that your GNO were deposited correctly but they are currently waiting in the deposit queue, you can see also an estimation about when they will be activated.

Currently there are about 13k GNO waiting in the deposit queue (about 6 days total), which is related to the churn-limit of 2 GNO per epoch (2160 GNO/day).

So everything is good for your validators, there’s just 6 more days of wait, probably that you deposited just when a large validator is moving validators, usually the queue is much shorter than this.

If ever you have more questions about your validators, feel free to come on the Gnosis Discord where we have a dedicated validator section and dedicated channels, and who’s nicer for support than using the forum.

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Thanks for your detailed reply, it makes a lot of sense.

I guess my node is running fine then - funny enough I did a test 1 week ago with only one validator and everything worked smoothly and fast. I guess I have just hit the wrong moment to bring my 20 validators online then.

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