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# vitepress build output
**/.vitepress/dist

# wrangler local state
.wrangler/
.dev.vars

# vitepress cache directory
**/.vitepress/cache

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export default defineConfig({
lang: "en-US",
title: "Optimum Docs",
description: "The world's first high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain.",
description: "Run an Optimum gateway, connect your validators, and read Signal and Accelerate in Console.",
lastUpdated: true,
cleanUrls: true,
ignoreDeadLinks: true,
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"meta",
{
property: "description",
content: "The world's first high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain.",
content: "Run an Optimum gateway, connect your validators, and read Signal and Accelerate in Console.",
},
],
["meta", { httpEquiv: "Content-Language", content: "en" }],
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socialLinks: [
{ icon: "github", link: "https://github.com/getoptimum/docs" },
{ icon: "x", link: "https://x.com/get_optimum" },
{ icon: "discord", link: "https://discord.gg/7EwFpu79cZ" },
{ icon: "discord", link: "https://discord.gg/getoptimum" },
// { icon: "youtube", link: "" },
// { icon: { svg: telegramSVG }, link: "" },
],
}
})

const gateway = "https://getoptimum.github.io/optimum-gateway/versions/latest"

function nav() {
return [
{
text: "Optimum Gateway",
link: "https://getoptimum.github.io/optimum-gateway/versions/latest/",
},
{
text: "Menu",
items: [
{ text: "Learn", link: "/docs/learn/overview/intro" },
{
text: "Resources",
items: [
// {
// text: "Optimum Improvement Proposals (OIPs)",
// link: "https://docs.getoptimum.xyz/", // TODO: Update link once live.
// },
{
text: "Optimum ADRs",
link: "https://github.com/getoptimum/optimum/tree/main/docs/architecture#adr-table-of-contents",
},
// {
// text: "Flexnode API Docs",
// link: "https://docs.getoptimum.xyz/", // TODO: Update link once live.
// },
],
},
],
},
{ text: "Start", link: "/start/what-optimum-does" },
{ text: "Console", link: "https://console.getoptimum.io/" },
{ text: "Gateway", link: `${gateway}/` },
];
}

function sidebarHome() {
return [
{
text: "Overview of Optimum",
text: "Start here",
collapsed: false,
items: [
{ text: "Introduction", link: "/" },
{ text: "What Optimum does", link: "/start/what-optimum-does" },
{ text: "Choose a path", link: "/start/choose-a-path" },
{ text: "Before you begin", link: "/start/before-you-begin" },
],
},
{
text: "Getting in",
collapsed: false,
items: [
{
text: "Introduction",
link: "/docs/learn/overview/intro",
},
{
text: "mump2p Protocol",
link: "/docs/learn/overview/p2p.md",
},
{ text: "Create an account", link: "/getting-in/create-an-account" },
{ text: "Account type", link: "/getting-in/account-type" },
{ text: "Register", link: "/getting-in/register" },
],
},
{
text: "Optimum Gateway",
text: "Signal",
collapsed: false,
items: [
{
text: "Documentation",
link: "https://getoptimum.github.io/optimum-gateway/versions/latest/",
},
{
text: "Quick start (HOP)",
link: "https://getoptimum.github.io/optimum-hop/",
},
{ text: "What Signal does", link: "/signal/what-signal-does" },
{ text: "Network", link: "/signal/network" },
{ text: "Connect your gateway", link: "/signal/connect-your-gateway" },
{ text: "When the check fails", link: "/signal/when-the-check-fails" },
{ text: "Register keys", link: "/signal/register-keys" },
{ text: "Onboard in bulk", link: "/signal/onboard-in-bulk" },
{ text: "Your first report", link: "/signal/your-first-report" },
],
},
{
text: "Research",
text: "Accelerate",
collapsed: false,
items: [
{
text: "Gossip",
link: "/docs/research/gossip/gossip",
},
{
text: "Transport",
link: "/docs/research/gossip/transport",
},
{
text: "Decentralized Access",
link: "/docs/research/gossip/decentralized-access",
},
{ text: "What Accelerate does", link: "/accelerate/what-accelerate-does" },
{ text: "Readiness", link: "/accelerate/readiness" },
{ text: "Recommendation", link: "/accelerate/recommendation" },
{ text: "Adjust MEV-Boost", link: "/accelerate/adjust-mev-boost" },
{ text: "Where results show", link: "/accelerate/where-results-show" },
],
},
{
text: "Operate",
collapsed: true,
items: [
{ text: "Run the gateway", link: "/operate/run-the-gateway" },
{ text: "Kubernetes", link: "/operate/kubernetes" },
{ text: "Block stream", link: "/operate/block-stream" },
{ text: "Telemetry", link: "/operate/telemetry" },
],
},
{
text: "Help",
collapsed: true,
items: [
{ text: "Troubleshoot", link: "/help/troubleshoot" },
{ text: "Support", link: "/help/support" },
{ text: "FAQ", link: "/help/faq" },
],
},
{
text: "Learn",
collapsed: true,
items: [
{ text: "mump2p protocol", link: "/docs/learn/overview/p2p" },
{ text: "Gossip", link: "/docs/research/gossip/gossip" },
{ text: "Transport", link: "/docs/research/gossip/transport" },
{ text: "Decentralized access", link: "/docs/research/gossip/decentralized-access" },
],
},
]
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html.dark .dark-mode-only {
display: block !important;
}

/* The data-path diagram uses currentColor, so it follows the theme. */
.data-path {
overflow-x: auto;
margin: 1.5rem 0;
color: var(--vp-c-text-1);
}

.data-path svg {
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---
title: Adjust MEV-Boost
description: Download the config and deploy it yourself. Console does not push it.
---

# Adjust MEV-Boost

Upload first. The editor reads the file you are running.

**Bid cutoff** is `timeout_get_header_ms`: the last moment a getHeader bid is accepted, in milliseconds into the slot. A later cutoff can take a higher bid. Set late enough, the proposal misses the slot.

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The late-in-slot deadline is `late_in_slot_time_ms`. The cutoff cannot sit on or past it; Console keeps the cutoff at least 1 ms earlier.

Move the cutoff, then **DOWNLOAD CONFIG**. The file is `mev-boost-config.yaml`. The screen says **Export the new config and deploy it — nothing here reaches your infrastructure.** Deploy that file on your MEV-Boost the way you already deploy config. Optimum has no write access to it.

**Configuration matches the file you uploaded** means you have not moved the cutoff since the upload. **Unsaved changes to the cutoff** means the editor and the file you uploaded differ; download before you deploy, or the node is still on the old value.

After a config is stored, **Results** on the Accelerate screen says the terms are accepted and a configuration is on file. **View the proposal report** opens the measurement. What changed after you deployed is on that report, not on the upload panel. See [Where results show](/accelerate/where-results-show).
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title: Readiness
description: The 200-proposal floor Console uses before it will recommend a cutoff.
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# Readiness

Before you accept anything, Console states what the current window can support.

A cutoff recommendation needs **200 proposals that carry a failure measurement**, across all your validators, not per key. The panel is **Not enough proposals yet** until that count reaches 200. You can still start Accelerate and upload a configuration. Measurement runs from the moment that configuration takes effect. The recommendation appears once the window holds enough.

When the window is large enough and a later bid was actually available, the panel is **What your proposals show**. The number is **ETH per MEV block**, left on the table in this window, measured against bids that arrived after the one your current cutoff took. The line under it is **Already proposed — not a projection.**

Two other answers, when there is nothing to recommend:

* Proposals were measured, but none of them took a relay bid, so there is no bid curve to read a cutoff from yet.
* Proposals were measured, and no better bid arrived after the one your current cutoff took.

Under **Before you start**, the row **Validator keys active** 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](/signal/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. |

While Console is still looking, the row reads **Checking which of your indices are active on chain…**.

If indices are on record and the panel says **Not enough proposals yet**, check this row first. **Activating** means you are waiting on activation, not on proposal luck.

The report’s own charts use the same measurement: accepted ETH on the bid that was taken, unrealised ETH on bids that arrived later, per MEV block. A per-proposal average is a different number and is labelled that way on the report. Do not read the headline ETH-per-MEV-block figure as ETH per proposal.
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title: Recommendation
description: What you accept before a cutoff is shown, and what the number means.
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# Recommendation

**Start Accelerate** opens **Acknowledge the disclaimer**. You can close it. Staff cannot accept it for you.

The notice says the configuration information is a simulation from current network data, for information only. Optimum does not guarantee a performance outcome. Changes you make on your own infrastructure are your decision, and Optimum is not liable for the outcomes of using that information.

Read the text in the dialog. The copy on this page is a summary so you know what the step is. The dialog is the agreement.

After you accept, **Bid cutoff** asks you to upload the MEV-Boost configuration you actually run. Console compares it with what your proposals show. It still does not change anything on your side.

If you have no file yet, **Download a starter file**. The download is `mev-boost-config.yaml`, with the known mainnet relays and MEV-Boost’s default cutoff. It is a starting point, not a config Console has applied.

Until a file is on record, the report has no cutoff to judge proposals by. The screen says **No configuration uploaded yet**.

The recommendation itself is withheld below 200 measured proposals. The callout is **Not enough proposals yet for a recommendation**. See [Readiness](/accelerate/readiness).

On the report, **Recommended cutoff** is the offset where a later bid was available. The note is ETH per MEV block across the MEV blocks in the window. The callout beside it is **This does not price the risk of waiting**: the figure is uplift that was available at that offset, on blocks already proposed. **No cutoff change indicated** means the window does not support moving it.
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title: What Accelerate does
description: Bid cutoff recommendations from slots you already proposed, for entity accounts. Console does not apply them.
---

# What Accelerate does

Accelerate recommends a MEV-Boost bid cutoff from slots your validators already proposed. Console never writes to your infrastructure. You upload the MEV-Boost configuration you run, read a recommendation, and download a config to deploy yourself. Nothing on this screen changes validator behaviour until you deploy that file.

## Who can use it

Accelerate is for **entity** accounts. An **individual** account has Signal only. See [Account type](/getting-in/account-type).

A recommendation needs 200 measured proposals ([Readiness](/accelerate/readiness)). An individual operator rarely proposes that many in a window short enough to act on, so the flow is offered to entities.

If you registered as an entity and **Accelerate** is not in the sidebar, it is not enabled for your account yet. Ask [support](/help/support). There is no other URL to use.

## The steps

1. **Start Accelerate** — prerequisites, including the disclaimer.
2. **Recommendation** — your config.
3. **Adjust** — you record the cutoff you will deploy.

Where you land on a return visit follows what is already stored. No acceptance sends you to step 1. Acceptance without a saved config sends you to the recommendation. A saved config sends you to adjust. If the terms change, the previous acceptance no longer counts and you start again.

## What it measures

Every figure is measured on slots you already proposed. Console does not forecast an annual gain.

## Older names on some screens

Accelerate is the product. A few Console labels still use older names for the same thing:

* **MumBoost** — the report entry under **Performance**, and the terms messages.
* **MEV Cutoff Optimisation** — the title of the proposal report.

This site says Accelerate, and quotes those labels where you need to find them on screen.
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title: Where results show
description: The Accelerate proposal report Console opens after a cutoff is on file.
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# Where results show

Open **View the proposal report** on Accelerate, or **Performance** → **MumBoost** in the sidebar. Both open the same Accelerate report. Its title on screen is still **MEV Cutoff Optimisation**. The subtitle says the window measures either performance since your last cutoff adjustment or a window you selected. The window end date is not included.

**Optimum · mump2p · Mainnet** above the title names the network. It is not a separate product.

Once the window has proposals, the report shows:

* Proposal count, in slots.
* Accepted ETH and unrealised ETH per MEV block. Offsets count from the bid you took, not from the start of the slot.
* A cutoff curve showing the extra value per MEV block if the cutoff had been later, compared with the bid that was accepted.
* Head votes and failure types by slot.

**No proposals in this window** means none of your validators was assigned a block proposal in that range. Widen the window.

**No report for this window** means the report failed to load. It does not mean you have no proposals. Refresh. If it persists, use [Support](/help/support).

Console stores a configuration only after it confirms you accepted the terms. **Could not check the MumBoost terms** means that check failed. Wait and refresh. **This operator has not accepted the MumBoost terms** means you need to accept them on Accelerate first. Both labels use MumBoost, the older name for Accelerate. See [Older names on some screens](/accelerate/what-accelerate-does#older-names-on-some-screens).

The **MumBoost** entry appears only when it is enabled for your account.
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