Become a Validator
In this tutorial you will learn how to stake fiamma token and become a fiamma validator
Prerequisites
Having a full node setup and synced by following this guide
You need to register your validator address as a bitvm staker, so that you can continue with the registration process.
1. Create a Keyring and Get Funds
The Getting Testnet Tokens page contains detailed instructions on how to create a keyring and get funds for it through a faucet.
2. Get Validator Pub Key
You can get the validator pubkey for the current node using the following command. You'll need to write it down. It will be needed next when creating the validator json file
3. Get Node Moniker
You can get the node moniker for the current node using the following command. You'll need to write it down. It will be needed next when creating the validator json file
4. Create A Validator Config File
You can modify the information of your validator as you wish, the following is just an example
You can find the pubkey by Get Validator Key.
You can find the moniker by Get Node Moniker
5. Staking And Become A Validator
Now you can create a pledge transaction to complete the creation of the validator
6. Show Your Validator Addr
You can get your validator address with the following command
where $KEYNAME
is the name of the key that you used for the self-delegation (e.g. my-key
on our example).
7. Query Your Validator staking
Use the above command to get the validator address, then you can check if your validator is staking successfully
If all goes well, you should see a response indicating the parameters that you specified on the create-validator transaction.
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