validator

Guide for Validator CLI

Create wallet

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

initiad keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

initiad keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

initiad keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(initiad keys show $WALLET -a)
INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(initiad keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS='${INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Fund your wallet

Faucet available on initia discord

go to #faucet-verification

Create validator

To create your validator run command below

initiad tx mstaking create-validator \
--amount 1000000uinit \
--from $WALLET \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.01 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--pubkey $(initiad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "$NODENAME" \
--identity "" \
--details "" \
--chain-id $INITIA_CHAIN_ID \
--gas auto \
--fees 80000uinit \
-y 

Check your validator key

[[ $(initiad q staking validator $INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(initiad status | jq -r .validator_info.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

initiad 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 initiad -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start initiad

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop initiad

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart initiad

Node info

Synchronization info

initiad status 2>&1 | jq .sync_info

Validator info

initiad status 2>&1 | jq .validator_info

Node info

initiad status 2>&1 | jq .node_info

Show node id

initiad tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

initiad keys list

Recover wallet

initiad keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

initiad keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

initiad query bank balances $INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

initiad tx bank send $INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_INITIA_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uinit

Voting

initiad tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$INITIA_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

initiad tx staking delegate $INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uinit --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$INITIA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

initiad tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uinit --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$INITIA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

initiad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$INITIA_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

initiad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $INITIA_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$INITIA_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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