validator

Guidance for Validator

Create wallet

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

wardend keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

wardend keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

wardend keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(wardend keys show $WALLET -a)
WARDEN_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(wardend keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS='${WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export WARDEN_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${WARDEN_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.

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"address": "wardenxxxxx"}' https://faucet.alfama.wardenprotocol.org

Create validator

check your wallet balance:

wardend query bank balances $WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

wardend comet show-validator

The output will be similar to this (with a different key):

{"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"lR1d7YBVK5jYijOfWVKRFoWCsS4dg3kagT7LB9GnG8I="}

Then, create a file named validator.json with the following content:

{    
    "pubkey": {"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"lR1d7YBVK5jYijOfWVKRFoWCsS4dg3kagT7LB9GnG8I="},
    "amount": "1000000uward",
    "moniker": "your-node-moniker",
    "identity": "eqlab testnet validator",
    "website": "optional website for your validator",
    "security": "optional security contact for your validator",
    "details": "optional details for your validator",
    "commission-rate": "0.1",
    "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
    "commission-max-change-rate": "0.01",
    "min-self-delegation": "1"
}

Finally, we're ready to submit the transaction to create the validator:

wardend tx staking create-validator validator.json \
    --from=$WALLET \
    --chain-id=alfama \
    --fees=500uward

Check your validator key

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

wardend 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 wardend -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start wardend

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop wardend

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart wardend

Node info

Synchronization info

wardend status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

wardend status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

wardend status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

wardend tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

wardend keys list

Recover wallet

wardend keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

wardend keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

wardend query bank balances $WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

wardend tx bank send $WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_WARDEN_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uward

Voting

wardend tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$WARDEN_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

wardend tx staking delegate $WARDEN_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uward --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$WARDEN_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

wardend tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uward --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$WARDEN_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

wardend tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$WARDEN_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

wardend tx distribution withdraw-rewards $WARDEN_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$WARDEN_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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