Readiness
Before you accept anything, Console states what your history can support.
A cutoff recommendation needs 200 measured proposals, across all your validators, not per key. Until the cycle holds that many, the Adjust step says Not enough proposals yet for a recommendation. You can still start Accelerate and upload a configuration. Measurement runs from the moment that configuration takes effect. The recommendation appears once the cycle holds enough.
Modelled annual gain
The top of step 1 is about the modelled gain: what a later bid cutoff could have captured on blocks you already proposed, held at that rate for a year. It is read from the simulation the terms describe, so before you accept them the screen says Accept the terms to see your modelled gain.
The other answers in that place:
| On the screen | What it means |
|---|---|
| Reading your modelled gain | The window is still being read. |
| Still gathering evidence | The model needs 30 days of ingested history and 30 MEV blocks. The line says how far along you are. |
| No MEV blocks to model yet | Nothing you proposed in the window took a relay bid, so there is no bid timing to model. |
| Nothing was left on the table | No better bid arrived after the one you took, at any measured offset. |
| Could not model your proposals | The read failed. Refresh. |
Before you start
Under Before you start, the row Validator keys registered has three states. Indices are required to know which slots you propose. The button tells you what is missing rather than failing silently.
| State | On the screen | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Needed | Needed to know which slots you propose. | Register keys. |
| Activating | Indices on record, none active on chain yet. | Wait for the activation queue. Pending validators are not assigned proposal slots, so nothing is measured until they activate. |
| Done | N of M registered indices active on chain. | Nothing. Proposals count as they happen. |
If Console could not read which indices are active, the row stays Needed and says We could not read which of your indices are active on chain, so this is unverified. Refresh. That is a failed read, not an empty set.
If indices are on record and the recommendation says Not enough proposals yet for a recommendation, check this row first. Activating means you are waiting on activation, not on proposal luck.
The report’s own charts measure per MEV block: accepted ETH on the bid that was taken, unrealised ETH on bids that arrived later. A per-proposal average is a different number and is labelled that way on the report.