# Anchor

> Open source Secret Shared Validator client. Built by the community, for the community.

## Docs

- [Advanced Networking](/advanced_networking): Anchor's networking stack is closely based on Lighthouse's. We refer to
[Lighthouse's page on Advanced Networking](https://lighthouse-book.sigmaprime.io/advanced_networking.html),
but want to outline several important differences:
- [Advanced Usage](/advanced_usage): Want to get into the details of Anchor configuration? Looking for something not covered elsewhere?
- [Architectural Overview](/architecture): This section provides developers an overview of the architectural design of Anchor. The intent of this
is to help gain an easy understanding of the client and associated code.
- [Anchor CLI Reference](/cli): This document provides a comprehensive reference for Anchor's command-line interface, including all available commands, subcommands, and options.
- [Contributing to Anchor](/contributing): Anchor welcomes contributions. If you are interested in contributing to to this project, and you want to learn Rust, feel free to join us building this project.
- [Development Environment](/development_environment): Most Anchor developers work on Linux or MacOS, however Windows should still
be suitable.
- [Frequently Asked Questions](/faq): [What is sigp/anchor?](#sigp-anchor)
- [SSV NodeInfo Handshake Protocol Specification](/handshake): This document specifies the **SSV NodeInfo Handshake Protocol**. The protocol is used by SSV-based nodes to exchange basic node metadata and validate each other's identity when establishing a connection over Libp2p under a dedicated protocol ID.
- [Anchor Installation Guide](/installation): This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Anchor.
- [Welcome to Anchor](/introduction): **Anchor** is a high-performance Secret Shared Validators (SSV) client written in Rust, designed to enable distributed validator technology for Ethereum staking.
- [Metrics](/metrics): Anchor comes pre-built with a suite of metrics for developers or users to monitor the health
and performance of the node.
- [Migrating to Anchor](/migrate_to_anchor): Anchor is designed to be interoperable with the go-ssv's key formats. This means the process of migrating from go-ssv to Anchor is fairly straight forward. We simply need to move the operator key from the go-ssv directory into the Anchor data directory.
- [For Protocol Developers](/protocol_developers): *Documentation for protocol developers.*
- [Running a Validator on SSV](/running_a_validator_on_ssv): Validators can be created to run on the SSV network or can be migrated from a currently running
validator client to an SSV cluster. This section provides a simple guide of the process of
running a validator on the SSV network.
- [Running an Anchor SSV Operator](/running_an_operator): An SSV operator is a node that holds shares of validators' keys and participates in committees to perform Ethereum validation duties. The SSV network enables distributed validation where multiple operators collectively validate without any single operator having access to the complete validator key.