Validator Setup

Wallet Setup

Creating a New Wallet

the following command will be generate new mnemoic phrase remember to backup that..!!

you can change $Wallet with your own name but i recomend you to still use default name

crossfid keys add $WALLET

Add exsisting wallet

if you have wallet before u should use this command

crossfid keys add $WALLET --recover

To see your wallet on your node you can check with this command

crossfid keys list

Write env to .profile

CROSSFI_WALLET_ADDRESS=$(crossfid keys show $WALLET -a)
CROSSFI_VALOPER_ADDRESS=$(crossfid keys show $WALLET --bech val -a)
echo 'export CROSSFI_WALLET_ADDRESS='${CROSSFI_WALLET_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
echo 'export CROSSFI_VALOPER_ADDRESS='${CROSSFI_VALOPER_ADDRESS} >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

Create validator

make sure you have fund on your wallet, to check that you can use this command

crossfid query bank balances $WALLET_ADDRESS

Before you create validator make sure your node already sync with the latest block, to check that use this command

crossfid status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

If the ressult "catching_up": false you can go to next step for creating validator, but if the ressult is catching_up":true wait till that go to false

you can create validator using this command

crossfid --home ${DAEMON_HOME} tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=1000000mpx \
  --pubkey=$(crossfid --home ${DAEMON_HOME} tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker="${MONIKER}" \
  --identity=${DISPLAY_PIC} \
  --details="${DETAILS}" \
  --website="${WEBSITE}" \
  --security-contact="${CONTACT}" \
  --chain-id="crossfi-evm-testnet-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

Congratulations you finished and run the validator

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.