Guidence for create validator
Create wallet
To create new wallet you can use command below. Don’t forget to save the mnemonic
echo "export WALLET=wallet" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
8ball keys add $WALLET
To recover your wallet using seed phrase
8ball keys add $WALLET --recover
Show your wallet list
Save wallet info
Add wallet and validator address into variables
EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(8ball keys show $WALLET -a)
EIGHTBALL_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(8ball keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS='${EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export EIGHTBALL_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${EIGHTBALL_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 discord faucet.
Go to Discord https://discord.gg/p3e8Zc6x
channel #euphoria-faucet
Create validator
check your wallet balance:
8ball query bank balances $EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS
To create your validator run command below
8ball tx staking create-validator \
--amount 100000uebl \
--from $WALLET \
--commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
--commission-max-rate "0.2" \
--commission-rate "0.07" \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--pubkey $(8ball tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker $NODENAME \
--chain-id $EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID
Check your validator key
[[ $(8ball q staking validator $EIGHTBALL_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(8ball 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
8ball 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 8ball -o cat
Start service
sudo systemctl start 8ball
Stop service
sudo systemctl stop 8ball
Restart service
sudo systemctl restart 8ball
Node info
Synchronization info
8ball status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo
Validator info
8ball status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo
Node info
8ball status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo
Show node id
8ball tendermint show-node-id
Wallet operations
List of wallets
Recover wallet
8ball keys add $WALLET --recover
Delete wallet
8ball keys delete $WALLET
Get wallet balance
8ball query bank balances $EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS
Transfer funds
8ball tx bank send $EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_EIGHTBALL_WALLET_ADDRESS> 100000uebl
Voting
8ball tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID
Staking, Delegation and Rewards
Delegate stake
8ball tx staking delegate $EIGHTBALL_VALOPER_ADDRESS 100000uebl --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Redelegate stake from validator to another validator
8ball tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 100000uebl --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw all rewards
8ball tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw rewards with commision
8ball tx distribution withdraw-rewards $EIGHTBALL_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID
Validator management
Edit validator
8ball tx staking edit-validator \
--moniker=$NODENAME \
--identity=<your_keybase_id> \
--website="<your_website>" \
--details="<your_validator_description>" \
--chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID \
--from=$WALLET
Unjail validator
8ball tx slashing unjail \
--broadcast-mode=block \
--from=$WALLET \
--chain-id=$EIGHTBALL_CHAIN_ID \
--gas=auto
