Commands

A set of useful commonly used commands for node operators

Key Management

Add a new key

loyald keys add wallet_name

Recover an existing wallet

loyald keys add wallet_name --recover

List all keys

loyald keys list

Validator Management

Create a new validator

loyald tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000 \
--pubkey=$(loyald tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker="YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity="YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details="YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website="YOUR_WEBSITE_URL"
--chain-id=loyal-1 \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--commission-max-rate=0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=wallet_name \
--gas-adjustment=1.4 \
--gas=auto \
--gas-prices=0.005ulyl

Unjail a validator

loyald tx slashing unjail --from wallet_name --chain-id loyal-1 --gas-adjustment 1.0 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005ulyl

Query Jail Reason

loyald query slashing signing-info $(loyald tendermint show-validator)

Token Management

Query wallet balance

loyald q bank balances $(loyald keys show wallet -a)

Withdraw all rewards from validator, excluding commission

loyald tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet_name --chain-id loyal-1 --gas-adjustment 1.0 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005ulyl

Withdraw all rewards and commission from validator

loyald tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(loyald keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet_name --chain-id loyal-1 --gas-adjustment 1.0 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005ulyl

Delegate tokens to yourself

loyald tx staking delegate $(loyald keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000ulyl --from wallet_name --chain-id loyal-1 --gas-adjustment 1.0 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005ulyl

Governance

List all proposals

loyald query gov proposals

View a specific proposal

NOTE: Replace 1 with the desired proposal id

loyald query gov proposal 1

Vote on a proposal

NOTE: Replace "1" with the desired proposal id. Replace "yes" with one of the cli commands from the table below.

The valid vote options are:

CLI Command	Name	Description
yes	Yes	Vote to pass the proposal
no	No	Vote to not pass the proposal
abstain	Abstain	Vote to abstain from the proposal
nowithveto	No With Veto	Vote to fail the proposal and burn the deposit. Typically only used for spam/scam proposals

loyald tx gov vote 1 yes --from wallet_name --chain-id loyal-1 --gas-adjustment 1.0 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005ulyl

Config Changes

Maintenance and status

Get validator info

loyald status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Get syncing info

loyald status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Get live peers

NOTE: Replace the CUSTOM_PORT value as needed. 26657 is the default port, but can change based on the config.toml settings.

CUSTOM_PORT="26657" && \
curl -sS http://localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}'

Reset chain data

loyald tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.loyal --keep-addr-book || \
loyald unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.loyal --keep-addr-book

Linux Service Management

Check daemon/cosmovisor logs

NOTE: Replace cosmovisor with the systemd service name if different

sudo journalctl -fu cosmovisor -o cat