diff --git a/config/default.config.yml b/config/default.config.yml
index 579f0ebc..f1eba7c3 100644
--- a/config/default.config.yml
+++ b/config/default.config.yml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ executionapi:
       url: "http://127.0.0.1:8545"
   
   depositLogBatchSize: 1000
+  depositDeployBlock: 0 # el block number from where to crawl the deposit contract (should be <=, but close to the deposit contract deployment block)
   electraDeployBlock: 0 # el block number from where to crawl the electra system contracts (should be <=, but close to electra fork activation block)
 
 # indexer keeps track of the latest epochs in memory.
diff --git a/test-config.yaml b/test-config.yaml
index 32d07855..4e3938ad 100644
--- a/test-config.yaml
+++ b/test-config.yaml
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ executionapi:
       url: "http://10.16.71.108:8545"
   
   depositLogBatchSize: 1000
+  depositDeployBlock: 0 # el block number from where to crawl the deposit contract (should be <=, but close to the deposit contract deployment block)
   electraDeployBlock: 0 # el block number from where to crawl the electra system contracts (should be <=, but close to electra fork activation block)
 
 indexer: