validator

Guidance for Validator

Create wallet

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

sided keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

sided keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

sided keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(sided keys show $WALLET -a)
SIDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(sided keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS='${SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export SIDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${SIDE_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.

go to discord channel and #testnet-faucet channel
type 
$request side-testnet-3 bcxxxxxxxxx

Create validator

check your wallet balance:

sided query bank balances $SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS

To create your validator run command below

sided tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000uside \
--pubkey $(sided tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id side-testnet-3 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--commission-max-rate 0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.05 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.4 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0.005uside \
-y

Check your validator key

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

sided 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 sided -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start sided

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop sided

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart sided

Node info

Synchronization info

sided status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator info

sided status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Node info

sided status 2>&1 | jq .NodeInfo

Show node id

sided tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

sided keys list

Recover wallet

sided keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

sided keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

sided query bank balances $SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

sided tx bank send $SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_SIDE_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uside

Voting

sided tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$SIDE_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

sided tx staking delegate $SIDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS 1000000uside --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$SIDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

sided tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> 1000000uside --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$SIDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

sided tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$SIDE_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

sided tx distribution withdraw-rewards $SIDE_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$SIDE_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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