Register your Terra validator
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Register your Terra validator¶
This is a detailed step-by-step guide for setting up a Terra validator. Please be aware that while it is easy to set up a rudimentary validating node, running a production-quality validator node with a robust architecture and security features requires an extensive setup.
For more information on setting up a validator, see additional resources.
Prerequisites¶
You have completed how to run a full Terra node, which outlines how to install, connect, and configure a node.
You are familiar with terrad.
you have read through the validator FAQ
1. Retrieve your PubKey¶
The consensus PubKey of your node is required to create a new validator. Run:
--pubkey=$(terrad tendermint show-validator)
2. Create a new validator¶
Get tokens
In order for Terrad to recognize a wallet address it must contain tokens. For the testnet, use the faucet to send Luna to your wallet. If you are on mainnet, send funds from an existing wallet. 1-3 luna are sufficient for most setup processes.
To create the validator and initialize it with a self-delegation, run the following command. key-name is the name of the private key that is used to sign transactions.
terrad tx staking create-validator \
--amount=5000000uluna \
--pubkey=$(<your-consensus-PubKey>) \
--moniker="<your-moniker>" \
--chain-id=<chain_id> \
--from=<key-name> \
--commission-rate="0.10" \
--commission-max-rate="0.20" \
--commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
--min-self-delegation="1"
Warning
When you specify commission parameters, the commission-max-change-rate is measured as a percentage-point change of the commission-rate. For example, a change from 1% to 2% is a 100% rate increase, but the commission-max-change-rate is measured as 1%.
3. Confirm your validator is active¶
If running the following command returns something, your validator is active:
terrad query tendermint-validator-set | grep "$(terrad tendermint show-validator)"
You are looking for the bech32 encoded address in the ~/.terra/config/priv_validator.json file.
Note
Only the top 130 validators in voting power are included in the active validator set.