validator

Guidence for create validator

Create wallet

To create new wallet you can use command below. Don’t forget to save the mnemonic

acred keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

acred keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

acred keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(acred keys show $WALLET -a)
ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(acred keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS='${ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Fund your wallet

https://frontier.osmosis.zone/pool/858

Create validator

check your wallet balance:

acred query bank balances $ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

acred tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 5000000000000000000aacre \
  --from $WALLET \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.1" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.1" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(acred tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker $NODENAME \
  --chain-id $ACRE_CHAIN_ID

Check your validator key

[[ $(acred q staking validator $ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(acred 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

acred 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 acred -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start acred

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop acred

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart acred

Node info

Synchronization info

acred status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

acred status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

acred status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

acred tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

acred keys list

Recover wallet

acred keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

acred keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

acred query bank balances $ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

acred tx bank send $ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_ACRE_WALLET_ADDRESS> 5000000000000000000aacre

Voting

acred tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

acred tx staking delegate $ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS 5000000000000000000aacre --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

acred tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 5000000000000000000aacre --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

acred tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

acred tx distribution withdraw-rewards $ACRE_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

acred tx staking edit-validator \
  --moniker=$NODENAME \
  --identity=<your_keybase_id> \
  --website="<your_website>" \
  --details="<your_validator_description>" \
  --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID \
  --from=$WALLET

Unjail validator

acred tx slashing unjail \
  --broadcast-mode=block \
  --from=$WALLET \
  --chain-id=$ACRE_CHAIN_ID \
  --gas=auto