Precautionary validator exit & Withdraw guide

1. Go to the dApp porfolio page, you should see your validators in status, when overing the little info icon you can see at what stage of the exit queue the validator is.

   1. Exiting validators, your validator is still generating rewards while in the exit queue.

      
   2. Exited validator validators, not generating rewards, funds are about to be withdraw from your validator to the staking contract.

      

   3. Until your validator is in status Pending Initialization or Withdraw possible it means that your validator is still exiting and you can come back later to continue.

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2. Click on the validator link to open the beacon chain page, and see a live estimate of the validator exit next to Exiting on and when he can be withdraw.

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3. When you see all your validators in status Pending Finalization , it means your validators are exited and are not generating rewards. A manual action is required to finalized their exit before withdrawing your assets.

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Prerequisites :

• Validators in status Ready to withdraw or Pending Finalization , if you see another status only partial withdraw will be possible.

1. On the dApp portfolio page, if at least one of your validators has been exited due to the precautionary validator exit, it will appear under Pending Finalization.

   1. You must finalize the exit before you can withdraw your staked ETH and rewards.

   2. Click on Finalize validator exit, to continue.

      
2. Finalize Validator Exit;

   1. Following the incident involving SwissBorg, Kiln has implemented precautionary measures including Orderly exiting of all Ethereum (ETH) validators.

   2. As a result, your staked ETH and rewards have been exited from staking and are now waiting to be withdrawn from the staking contract. However, the smart contract is not aware that these validators were exited, since the procedure was triggered outside the standard exit flow.

   3. To ensure that your rewards can be properly withdrawn, you need to manually finalize the exit of these validators. This can be done for all your validators in a single transaction.

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   5. Once you have perform this action or if you did exit your validators before the incident, you should see all your validators in statuts Ready to withdraw and a Withdraw rewards button.

      
3. Withdraw staked ETH and rewards;

   1. ⚠️ If you have at least one validator not finalized, you will not be able to perform a withdraw of your staked ETH or rewards even if they, finalize validator exit (step 2) and come back to this step.

      
   2. Else, you can proceed to withdraw all assets staked and generated rewards in one or multiple transaction is you started staking a long time ago, you will be prompted to sign multiple transaction is required or come back to this flow later.

   3. Upon successful transaction, you will receive all assets in your wallet.