validator

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

kyved keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

kyved keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

kyved keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(kyved keys show $WALLET -a)
KYVE_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(kyved keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS='${KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export KYVE_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${KYVE_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:

kyved query bank balances $KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

kyved tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 100000ukyve \
  --from $WALLET \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.07" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(kyved tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker $NODENAME \
  --chain-id $KYVE_CHAIN_ID

Check your validator key

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

kyved 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 kyved -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start kyved

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop kyved

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart kyved

Node info

Synchronization info

kyved status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

kyved status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

kyved status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

kyved tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

kyved keys list

Recover wallet

kyved keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

kyved keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

kyved query bank balances $KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

kyved tx bank send $KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_KYVE_WALLET_ADDRESS> 100000ukyve

Voting

kyved tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$KYVE_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

kyved tx staking delegate $KYVE_VALOPER_ADDRESS 100000ukyve --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$KYVE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

kyved tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 100000ukyve --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$KYVE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

kyved tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$KYVE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

kyved tx distribution withdraw-rewards $KYVE_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$KYVE_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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

remove node

sudo systemctl stop kyved
sudo systemctl disable kyved
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/kyve* -rf
sudo rm $(which kyved) -rf
sudo rm $HOME/.kyve* -rf
sudo rm $HOME/chain -rf
sed -i '/KYVE_/d' ~/.bash_profile