validator

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

arkeod keys 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

N/A

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

arkeod keys list

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