validator

Guidence for create validator

Create wallet

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

paxid keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

paxid keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

paxid keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(paxid keys show $WALLET -a)
PAXI_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(paxid keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS='${PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export PAXI_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${PAXI_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Fund your wallet

Buy on Osmosis DEX

Create validator

check your wallet balance:

paxid query bank balances $PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

paxid tendermint show-validator

nano ~/go/bin/paxi/validator.json

filled your validator info

{
  "pubkey":  result_from_above,
  "amount": "1000000upaxi",
  "moniker": "your-moniker",
  "identity": "your-identity",
  "website": "your-website",
  "security": "your-mail",
  "details": "your-detail",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.05",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}

paxid tx staking create-validator ~/go/bin/paxi/validator.json \
--from wallet \
--chain-id paxi-mainnet \
--fees 10000upaxi

Check your validator key

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

paxid 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 paxid -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start paxid

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop paxid

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart paxid

Node info

Synchronization info

paxid status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

paxid status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

paxid status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

paxid tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

paxid keys list

Recover wallet

paxid keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

paxid keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

paxid query bank balances $PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

paxid tx bank send $PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_PAXI_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000upaxi

Voting

paxid tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$PAXI_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

paxid tx staking delegate $PAXI_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000upaxi --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$PAXI_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

paxid tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000upaxi --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$PAXI_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

paxid tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$PAXI_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

paxid tx distribution withdraw-rewards $PAXI_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$PAXI_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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