Validator Operations

Create New Validator

# Create validator.json file
(cat <<EOF
{
  "pubkey": "$(layerd tendermint show-validator)",
  "amount": "1000000loya",
  "moniker": "$MONIKER",
  "identity": "",
  "website": "",
  "security": "",
  "details": "",
  "commission-rate": "0.05",
  "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
  "commission-max-change-rate": "0.01",
  "min-self-delegation": "1"
}
EOF
) > $HOME/.layer/validator.json
# Create a validator using the JSON configuration
layerd tx staking create-validator $HOME/.layer/validator.json \
--from $WALLET \
--fees 5loya

Edit Existing Validator

layerd tx staking edit-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--new-moniker "$MONIKER" \
--identity "" \
--details "" \
--from $WALLET \
--chain-id layertest-3 \
--fees 5loya\
-y

Validator info

layerd status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Validator Details

layerd q staking validator $(layerd keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)

Jailing info

layerd q slashing signing-info $(layerd tendermint show-validator)

Slashing parameters

layerd q slashing params

Unjail validator

layerd tx slashing unjail --from $WALLET --chain-id layertest-3 --fees 5loya-y

Active Validators List

layerd q staking validators -oj --limit=2000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " 	 " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl

Check Validator key

[[ $(layerd q staking validator $VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(layerd status | jq -r .ValidatorInfo.PubKey.value) ]] && echo -e "Your key status is ok" || echo -e "Your key status is error"

Signing info

layerd q slashing signing-info $(layerd tendermint show-validator)