validator

Guide for Node CLI

Create wallet

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

exrpd keys add $WALLET

To recover your wallet using seed phrase

exrpd keys add $WALLET --recover

Show your wallet list

exrpd keys list

Save wallet info

Add wallet and validator address into variables

XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(exrpd keys show $WALLET -a)
XRPL_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(exrpd keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS='${XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export XRPL_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${XRPL_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Create validator

Follow this guid to join testnet validator:

https://docs.xrplevm.org/pages/operators/validators/join-the-proof-of-authority

Check your validator key

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

exrpd 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 exrpd -o cat

Start service

sudo systemctl start exrpd

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop exrpd

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart exrpd

Node info

Synchronization info

exrpd status 2>&1 | jq .sync_info

Validator info

exrpd status 2>&1 | jq .validator_info

Node info

exrpd status 2>&1 | jq .node_info

Show node id

exrpd tendermint show-node-id

Wallet operations

List of wallets

exrpd keys list

Recover wallet

exrpd keys add $WALLET --recover

Delete wallet

exrpd keys delete $WALLET

Get wallet balance

exrpd query bank balances $XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS

Transfer funds

exrpd tx bank send $XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_XRPL_WALLET_ADDRESS>

Voting

exrpd tx gov vote 1 yes --from $WALLET --chain-id=$XRPL_CHAIN_ID

Staking, Delegation and Rewards

Delegate stake

exrpd tx staking delegate $XRPL_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$XRPL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Redelegate stake from validator to another validator

exrpd tx staking redelegate <srcValidatorAddress> <destValidatorAddress> --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$XRPL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw all rewards

exrpd tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from=$WALLET --chain-id=$XRPL_CHAIN_ID --gas=auto

Withdraw rewards with commision

exrpd tx distribution withdraw-rewards $XRPL_VALOPER_ADDRESS --from=$WALLET --commission --chain-id=$XRPL_CHAIN_ID

Validator management

Edit validator

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

Unjail validator

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