Guidence for create validator
Create wallet
To create new wallet you can use command below. Don’t forget to save the mnemonic
bcnad keys add $WALLET
To recover your wallet using seed phrase
bcnad keys add $WALLET --recover
Show your wallet list
Save wallet info
Add wallet and validator address into variables
BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(bcnad keys show $WALLET -a)
BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(bcnad keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS='${BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
Fund your wallet
In order to create validator first you need to fund your wallet with buy bcna token.
https://www.bitcanna.io/#Exchanges
Create validator
check your wallet balance:
bcnad query bank balances $BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS
To create your validator run command below
bcnad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ubcna \
--from $WALLET \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.1" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--pubkey $(bcnad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker $NODENAME \
--chain-id $BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID
--gas-prices=0.1ubcna \
--gas-adjustment=1.5 \
--gas=auto \
Check your validator key
[[ $(bcnad q staking validator $BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(bcnad status | jq -r .ValidatorInfo.PubKey.value) ]] && echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[32mTrue\e[0m\n" || echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[31mFalse\e[0m\n"
Get list of validators
bcnad q staking validators -oj --limit=3000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " \t " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl
Usefull commands
Service management
Check logs
journalctl -fu bcnad -o cat
Start service
sudo systemctl start bcnad
Stop service
sudo systemctl stop bcnad
Restart service
sudo systemctl restart bcnad
Node info
Synchronization info
bcnad status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo
Validator info
bcnad status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo
Node info
bcnad status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo
Show node id
bcnad tendermint show-node-id
Wallet operations
List of wallets
Recover wallet
bcnad keys add $WALLET --recover
Delete wallet
bcnad keys delete $WALLET
Get wallet balance
bcnad query bank balances $BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS
Transfer funds
bcnad tx bank send $BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_BITCANNA_WALLET_ADDRESS> 10000000ubcna
Voting
bcnad tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID
Staking, Delegation and Rewards
Delegate stake
bcnad tx staking delegate $BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS 10000000ubcna --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Redelegate stake from validator to another validator
bcnad tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 10000000ubcna --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw all rewards
bcnad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw rewards with commision
bcnad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $BITCANNA_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID
Validator management
Edit validator
bcnad tx staking edit-validator \
--moniker=$NODENAME \
--identity=<your_keybase_id> \
--website="<your_website>" \
--details="<your_validator_description>" \
--chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID \
--from=$WALLET
Unjail validator
bcnad tx slashing unjail \
--broadcast-mode=block \
--from=$WALLET \
--chain-id=$BITCANNA_CHAIN_ID \
--gas=auto
