Guidence for create validator
Create wallet
To create new wallet you can use command below. Don’t forget to save the mnemonic
arkeod keys add $WALLET
To recover your wallet using seed phrase
arkeod keys add $WALLET --recover
Show your wallet list
Save wallet info
Add wallet and validator address into variables
ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(arkeod keys show $WALLET -a)
ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(arkeod keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS='${ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
Fund your wallet
Go to discord channel and request for faucet
Create validator
check your wallet balance:
arkeod query bank balances $ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS
To create your validator run command below
arkeod tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000uarkeo \
--pubkey=$(arkeod tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker=$NODENAME \
--identity=<your identity> \
--details="<Your details>" \
--chain-id=arkeo \
--commission-rate=0.10 \
--commission-max-rate=0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=$WALLET \
--gas-prices=0.1uarkeo \
--gas-adjustment=1.5 \
--gas=auto \
-y
Check your validator key
[[ $(arkeod q staking validator $ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(arkeod 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
arkeod 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 arkeod -o cat
Start service
sudo systemctl start arkeod
Stop service
sudo systemctl stop arkeod
Restart service
sudo systemctl restart arkeod
Node info
Synchronization info
arkeod status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo
Validator info
arkeod status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo
Node info
arkeod status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo
Show node id
arkeod tendermint show-node-id
Wallet operations
List of wallets
Recover wallet
arkeod keys add $WALLET --recover
Delete wallet
arkeod keys delete $WALLET
Get wallet balance
arkeod query bank balances $ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS
Transfer funds
arkeod tx bank send $ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_ARKEO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uarkeo
Voting
arkeod tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID
Staking, Delegation and Rewards
Delegate stake
arkeod tx staking delegate $ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uarkeo --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Redelegate stake from validator to another validator
arkeod tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uarkeo --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw all rewards
arkeod tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto
Withdraw rewards with commision
arkeod tx distribution withdraw-rewards $ARKEO_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID
Validator management
Edit validator
arkeod tx staking edit-validator \
--moniker=$NODENAME \
--identity=<your_keybase_id> \
--website="<your_website>" \
--details="<your_validator_description>" \
--chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID \
--from=$WALLET
Unjail validator
arkeod tx slashing unjail \
--broadcast-mode=block \
--from=$WALLET \
--chain-id=$ARKEO_CHAIN_ID \
--gas=auto
