Become a Validator

To become a validator follow this steps

Before setting up your validator node, make sure you've already gone through the Full Node Setup

What is a Validator?

Validators are responsible for committing new blocks to the blockchain through voting. A validator's stake is slashed if they become unavailable or sign blocks at the same height. Please read about Sentry Node Architecture to protect your node from DDOS attacks and to ensure high-availability.

Create Your Validator

Your darcvalconspub can be used to create a new validator by staking tokens. You can find your validator pubkey by running:

build/knstld tendermint show-validator

To create your validator, just use the following command:

Check if your key(address) has enough balance:

build/knstld query bank balances <key address>

For test nodes, chain-id is darchub. You need transction fee 2udarc to make your transaction for creating validator. Don't use more udarc than you have!

build/knstld tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=1000000udarc \
  --pubkey=$(build/knstld tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker=<choose a moniker> \
  --chain-id=<chain_id> \
  --commission-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-rate="0.20" \
  --commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
  --min-self-delegation="1" \
  --from=<key_name> \
  --fees=2udarc

• NOTE: If you have troubles with '\' symbol, run the command in a single line like build/knstld tx staking create-validator --amount=1000000udarc --pubkey=$(build/knstld tendermint show-validator) ...

When specifying commission parameters, the commission-max-change-rate is used to measure % point change over the commission-rate. E.g. 1% to 2% is a 100% rate increase, but only 1 percentage point.

Min-self-delegation is a strictly positive integer that represents the minimum amount of self-delegated voting power your validator must always have. A min-self-delegation of 1 means your validator will never have a self-delegation lower than 1000000udarc

You can check that you are in the validator set by using a third party explorer or using cli tool

build/knstld query staking validators --chain-id=<chain_id>

• Note: You can edit the params after, by running command build/knstld tx staking edit-validator ... —from <key_name> --chain-id=<chain_id> --fees=2udarc with the necessary options