validator

Guidence for Create Validator

Create wallet

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

quicksilverd keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

quicksilverd keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

quicksilverd keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(quicksilverd keys show $WALLET -a)
QUICKSILVER_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(quicksilverd keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS='${QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export QUICKSILVER_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${QUICKSILVER_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.

#🚰-testnet-faucet 

Create validator

check your wallet balance:

quicksilverd query bank balances $QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

quicksilverd tx staking create-validator \
  --amount 1000000uqck \
  --from $WALLET \
  --commission-max-change-rate "0.01" \
  --commission-max-rate "0.2" \
  --commission-rate "0.07" \
  --min-self-delegation "1" \
  --pubkey  $(quicksilverd tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker $NODENAME \
  --chain-id $QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID
  --gas-adjustment 1.4 \
  --gas auto \
  --gas-prices 0.0001uqck \
  -y

Check your validator key

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

quicksilverd 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 quicksilverd -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start quicksilverd

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop quicksilverd

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart quicksilverd

Node info

Synchronization info

quicksilverd status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

quicksilverd status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

quicksilverd status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

quicksilverd tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

quicksilverd keys list

Recover wallet

quicksilverd keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

quicksilverd keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

quicksilverd query bank balances $QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

quicksilverd tx bank send $QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_QUICKSILVER_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uqck

Voting

quicksilverd tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

quicksilverd tx staking delegate $QUICKSILVER_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uqck --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

quicksilverd tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uqck --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

quicksilverd tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

quicksilverd tx distribution withdraw-rewards $QUICKSILVER_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$QUICKSILVER_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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