Validator Setup
📶Running a Validator
Set environment
export MONIKER="YOUR_NODE_NAME_HERE"
export WALLET="YOUR_WALLET_NAME_HERE"
export DETAILS="YOUR_NODE_INFORMATION_HERE"
export WEBSITE="YOUR_WEBSITE_HERE"
export DISPLAY_PIC="YOUR_KEYBASE_IMAGE_PGP"
export CONTACT="YOUR_CONTACT"
Write env to .profile
echo 'export MONIKER=${MONIKER}' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export WALLET=${WALLET}' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export DETAILS=${DETAILS}' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export WEBSITE=${WEBSITE}' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export DISPLAY_PIC=${DISPLAY_PIC}' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export CONTACT=${CONTACT}' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
Create Validator
You can create your validator by using command below :
crossfid --home ${DAEMON_HOME} tx staking create-validator \
--amount=9900000000000000000000mpx \
--pubkey=$(crossfid --home ${DAEMON_HOME} tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker="${MONIKER}" \
--identity=${DISPLAY_PIC} \
--details="${DETAILS}" \
--website="${WEBSITE}" \
--security-contact="${CONTACT}" \
--chain-id="mineplex-mainnet-1" \
--commission-rate="0.10" \
--commission-max-rate="0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
--min-self-delegation="1000000" \
--gas="auto" \
--gas-prices="10000000000000mpx" \
--gas-adjustment=1.5 \
--from=$WALLET
It's possible that you won't have enough MPX to be part of the active set of validators in the beginning. Users are able to delegate to inactive validators (those outside of the active set) using the XFI Console You can confirm that you are in the validator set by using a third party explorer like XFI Scan.
Edit Validator
You can edit your validator details using command below :
Before you continue, you can edit your environment variable, or you can edit manually
crossfid --home ${DAEMON_HOME} tx staking edit-validator
--moniker="${MONIKER}" \
--website="${WEBSITE}" \
--identity=${DISPLAY_PIC} \
--details="${DETAILS}" \
--chain-id="mineplex-mainnet-1" \
--gas="auto" \
--gas-prices="10000000000000mpx" \
--gas-adjustment=1.5 \
--from=<key_name> \
--commission-rate="0.10"
Unjail Validator
When a validator is "jailed" for downtime, you must submit an Unjail
transaction from the operator account in order to be able to get block proposer rewards again (depends on the zone fee distribution).
crossfid tx slashing unjail \
--from=${WALLET} \
--chain-id="mineplex-mainnet-1"
Halting Your Validator
When attempting to perform routine maintenance or planning for an upcoming coordinated upgrade, it can be useful to have your validator systematically and gracefully halt. You can achieve this by either setting the halt-height
to the height at which you want your node to shutdown or by passing the --halt-height
flag to crossfid
. The node will shutdown with a zero exit code at that given height after committing the block.
Get last block height
curl -sX GET "https://crossfi-testnet-api.cryptonode.id/cosmos/base/tendermint/v1beta1/blocks/latest" -H "accept: application/json" | jq '.block.last_commit.height'
Halt Validator
crossfid start --halt-height HALT_HEIGHT
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