validator

CLI Command

Create wallet

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

gaiad keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

gaiad keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

gaiad keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(gaiad keys show $WALLET -a)
COSMOS_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(gaiad keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS='${COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export COSMOS_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${COSMOS_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.

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Create validator

check your wallet balance:

gaiad query bank balances $COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

gaiad tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000uatom \
  --from $WALLET \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.05" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(gaiad tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker $NODENAME \
  --chain-id $COSMOS_CHAIN_ID

Check your validator key

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

gaiad 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 gaiad -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start gaiad

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop gaiad

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart gaiad

Node info

Synchronization info

gaiad status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

gaiad status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

gaiad status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

gaiad tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

gaiad keys list

Recover wallet

gaiad keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

gaiad keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

gaiad query bank balances $COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

gaiad tx bank send $COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_COSMOS_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uatom

Voting

gaiad tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$COSMOS_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

gaiad tx staking delegate $COSMOS_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uatom --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$COSMOS_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

gaiad tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uatom --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$COSMOS_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

gaiad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$COSMOS_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

gaiad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $COSMOS_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$COSMOS_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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