validator

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

bcnad keys 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

bcnad keys list

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