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Run a Validator

Create Your Validator​

Your node public key can be used to create a node by pledging a Unit Token. You can find your Validator public key with the following command.

    treasurenetd tendermint show-validator

    {"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"ZZ35B4oaIo2Az2+Pt8QW/3xIaRPRRXFKb14mmzvdjFw="}
caution

❗️ Note: Never use the test mode keyring backend to create your primary network validator key. Doing so may cause your funds to be accessed remotely through the eth_sendTransaction JSON-RPC node, resulting in a loss of funds

Reference：Security Advisory: Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible

To start your Validator node on the test network, use the following command:


treasurenetd tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=158000000000000000000aUnit \
  --pubkey=$(treasurenetd tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker="choose a moniker" \
  --chain-id=<chain_id> \
  --commission-rate="0.05" \
  --commission-max-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
  --min-self-delegation="1000000" \
  --gas="auto" \
  --gas-prices="0.025aUnit" \
  --from=<key_name>


Edit Validator Description​

You can modify the public representation of your validator, which is used to identify your validator. Stakers use this information to determine which validator to stake their tokens to.

Please make sure to provide all the required parameters. If any of these parameters are not provided, the corresponding content will be empty. (If moniker is not provided, it defaults to the device name.)

The --identity flag can be utilized for authentication purposes with systems like Keybase or UPort. In case of Keybase, you should populate your account with a 16-bit string that is generated by keybase.io --identity. This method ensures a cryptographically secure authentication of your identity across various online networks. By retrieving your Keybase avatar via the Keybase API, you can add your logo to the authenticator profile. If you do not provide this flag, your node’s public key will be used as the node identity.

<key_name> is used to specify the validator you are editing. If you choose not to include certain flags, remember that the --from flag must be included to identify the validator to be updated


treasurenetd tx staking edit-validator
  --moniker="choose a moniker" \                #The validator's name
  --website="https://www.treasurenet.io" \      #The validator's (optional) website
  --identity=6A0D65E29A4CBC8E \                 #The (optional) identity signature (ex. UPort or Keybase)
  --details="To infinity and beyond!" \         #The validator's (optional) details
  --chain-id=<chain_id> \                       #The network chain ID
  --from=<key_name> \                           #Name or address of private key with which to sign
  --commission-rate="0.10"                      #The new commission rate percentage


View Validator Description​

    treasurenetd query staking validator <account>

Track Validator Signing Information​

    treasurenetd query slashing signing-info <validator-pubkey> --chain-id=<chain_id>

Unjail Validator​

When the validator is "Jail" due to downtime, double-signing, etc., you must submit unjail transactions from your validator operator account to receive block rewards again.

    treasurenetd tx slashing unjail --from=<key_name> --chain-id=<chain_id>

Confirm Your Validator is Running​

    treasurenetd query tendermint-validator-set | grep "$(treasurenetd tendermint show-address)"

Common Problems​

My validator voting power is 0.​

Maybe, Your validator is in Jail status. This is usually because validators have not participated in 500 votes of the last 10,000 blocks or the validators have double-signed.

If it is confirmed that your validator has a jail status due to one of the above actions, you can try to recover it in one of these ways. First, if the validator is not running, try to start it using the following command.

    treasurenetd start

Wait for the node to update to the latest block (the time depends on the gap between your node and the latest block), then try to unjail your validator.

You can refer to the section onunjail your validator 章节

Finally, check that your validator's voting power is back to normal

    treasurenetd status

My node crashes because of too many open files.​

The default number of files that Linux can open (per process) is 1024. treasurenetd may cause a process to crash if more than 1024 files are opened.

A quick fix is to run ulimit -n 4096 command (i.e. increase the number of files allowed to be opened) and then restart the process using treasurenetd start command.

If you are using systemd or another process manager to start treasurenetd, you may need to do some configuration at that level. An example systemd file to solve this problem is as follows:

# /etc/systemd/system/treasurenetd.service
[Unit]
Description=TreasurenNet Node
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=ubuntu
WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu
ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/go/bin/treasurenetd start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target