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Mining Rewards

Claiming mining rewards requires both a valid archive node RPC endpoint and a Beacon Chain RPC endpoint.In our testing, the Alchemy paid RPC plan in combination with the public beacon chain API URL (https://ethereum-beacon-api.publicnode.com/) works for claiming rewards. Quicknode works for the beacon chain endpoint, but Quicknode RPC endpoints are not recommended for claim-mining-rewards as it commonly errors with request rate limits.
After the reward epoch has finalized, mining rewards can be claimed with: 
boundless rewards claim-mining-rewards
This process is permissionless and DOES NOT require the private key for the address eligible for the rewards. The only requirement is that the stored PRIVATE_KEY has enough funds to cover gas costs on Ethereum mainnet. claim-mining-rewards uses Bento for proving (see claim.rs); therefore, make sure to have Bento running locally or specify a valid Bento API URL endpoint via --bento-api-url.

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Staking Rewards

After the reward epoch has finalized, staking rewards can be claimed with: 
boundless rewards claim-staking-rewards
where PRIVATE_KEY is the private key of the address that has the reward power. This would be the private key for the rewards address when using the recommended wallet setup.

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Checking Details of Current Reward Epoch

If the reward epoch has not been finalized yet, provers can check details of the the current epoch: 
boundless rewards epoch