Also, read our [Roadmap Reference Implementation Doc](https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/blob/master/docs/ROADMAP.md). This doc provides a background on the milestones we aim for the project to achieve.
If you want to run our system locally, you'll need to have a **Validator Deposit Contract** deployed on the Goerli Ethereum 1.0 [testnet](https://github.com/goerli/testnet). You'll need to acquire some Goerli ETH first and then you can easily deploy our deposit contract with Bazel:
The chain will then be waiting for the **Validator Deposit Contract** to reach a deposit threshold before it begins! Now, you'll need to spin up enough validator clients that can reach the threshold with the following next steps:
Once your beacon node is up, you'll need to attach a validator client as a separate process. Each validator represents 32ETH being staked in the system, so you can spin up as many as you want to have more at stake in the network.
[2019-03-17 11:57:55] INFO accounts: Account creation complete! Copy and paste the deposit data shown below when issuing a transaction into the ETH1.0 deposit contract to activate your validator client
This will connect you to your running beacon node and listen for validator assignments! The beacon node will update you at every cycle transition and shuffle your validator into different shards and slots in order to vote on or propose beacon blocks. To then run the validator, use the command:
Once you launch your beacon chain and validators, your nodes won't do much and will simply listen for the deposit contract to reach a valid threshold. You'll need an Eth 1.0 wallet that can send transactions via the Goerli network such as Metamask loaded with enough Ether to make deposits into the contract. Using the deposit contract address from earlier and your validator deposit data from the previous step, send a transactions with the validator deposit data as the `data` parameter in your web3 provider such as Metamask to kick things off. Once you make enough deposits, your beacon node will start and your system will begin running the phase 0 beacon chain!
This will connect you to your running beacon node and listen for shard/slot assignments! The beacon node will update you at every cycle transition and shuffle your validator into different shards and slots in order to vote on or propose beacon blocks.
The best way to run under Windows is to clone the repository and then run the node with go run from the Windows command line. Go 1.10 fails due to documented permission errors so be sure you are running Go 1.11 or later. Go through the source code and resolve any dependencies. Create two empty files for use as data directories by the beacon chain and validator respectively. The contents of these files should be deleted each time you run the software. After cloning the Prsym repository, run the node as follows:
We have put all of our contribution guidelines into [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)! Check it out to get started.
