🚀 GotEth: Powering Ethereum Validator Analytics

Introduction

At MigaLabs, our mission has always been to strengthen Ethereum’s ecosystem through open-source infrastructure and data transparency. One of our key contributions to this effort is GotEth — an open-source Go-written client designed to index all validator-related duties, parameters, and transactions across Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers.

🧠 What is GotEth?

GotEth is a specialized open-source Ethereum indexer that collects and organizes validator and epoch-level data from both the consensus and execution layers. It stores this information in a series of ClickHouse tables, enabling efficient querying and analytics for all aspects of validator performance and network health.

This architecture allows anyone — from protocol developers to institutional staking providers — to analyze validator rewards, missed duties, inclusion rates, and more, using a scalable, high-performance data model. The resulting datasets serve as the backbone for various monitoring dashboards, research studies, and infrastructure tools in the Ethereum staking ecosystem.

🧩 From Research Prototype to Industry Standard

GotEth began as a research tool, built internally at MigaLabs to fetch validator rewards for specific epochs. What started as a lightweight prototype for research and experimentation has now evolved into one of the most used Ethereum consensus and execution layer indexers.

Over time, GotEth has matured into a production-grade system capable of processing large-scale validator datasets and providing real-time insights. Its modular, open-source design has enabled rapid adoption and contributions from the broader Ethereum community.

⚙️ Powering MigaLabs’ Ecosystem

GotEth plays a central role across several of our services and tools:

• 🧭 Block Explorer – providing indexed data for validator and block-level analytics.
• 🔌 API Endpoints – serving structured validator metrics to developers and researchers.
• 📊 MigaLabs Dashboards – the public dashboards at migalabs.io rely on GotEth’s data pipelines to visualize network performance and validator behavior.

Through these integrations, GotEth has become an essential data layer for transparency and performance monitoring across Ethereum’s staking landscape.

🌍 Broader Adoption: From Protocol Teams to Institutional Stakers

Beyond MigaLabs, institutional staking providers and protocol development teams have adopted GotEth to monitor their validator fleets. The tool’s ability to aggregate, normalize, and serve high-volume blockchain data with low latency has made it invaluable for organizations that demand reliability and precision.

💡 Success Story: Stakely’s Validator Monitoring System

One of GotEth’s most impactful use cases comes from Stakely — a major staking provider operating over 248,000 ETH (~$1.1B) across protocols such as Lido, Stader, Swell, Stakewise, and Mellow.

Stakely’s infrastructure emphasizes geographic decentralization (spread across seven countries) and client diversity (with 16 different Ethereum client implementations). Managing this complexity requires extremely reliable performance metrics.

That’s where GotEth came in.

With our support, the Stakely team built a fully in-house metrics and monitoring system powered by GotEth, enabling:

• ✅ Historical data analysis for strategic decision-making
• ⚡ Real-time monitoring and alerting across mainnet and testnets
• 🤝 Collaborative development and community support through our Discord

As Stakely shared:

GotEth empowered us to create a metrics system capable of identifying inefficiencies, tracking performance, and preventing issues before they escalate. The collaboration with MigaLabs exemplifies how open-source cooperation keeps Ethereum evolving.

This partnership highlights GotEth’s real-world reliability and its contribution to decentralization, transparency, and operational excellence in Ethereum staking.

🛠️ Looking Ahead

GotEth continues to evolve. With every release, we’re improving data coverage, performance, and usability — enabling a future where validator transparency is the norm, not the exception.

Whether you’re a protocol developer, staking provider, or researcher, GotEth offers the data foundation you need to understand Ethereum’s consensus in detail.

👉 Explore the project on GitHub: github.com/migalabs/goteth