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. |
| 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.