🚔Become a Mainnet Validator

This section explains how you can operate a Mainnet validator node on Titan Chain.

Prepare your account

• Create an account by Keplr

• Go to the Explorer website click Sign in button and use Keplr method. It then help add titan testnet network into Keplr

• NOTE: because min self delegate is 2048 TKX, to order to become validator you need have at least 2048 TKX

Create your validator

After creating a wallet with Keplr, you will now have a mnemonic (12 words/24 words) and a passphrase. We will proceed to import it into the node you created at step Integrate on Mainnet.

Access to your node and import your wallet

titand keys add my_wallet --recover

Enter your 12-word mnemonic and passphrase. The output will appear as follows:

- address: titan198knyvkecazg4snsa5gt08ygg46fv7ma2g33v2
  name: my_wallet
  pubkey: '{"@type":"/ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey","key":"AkwSg37hZTtEODSYiMR5GGx/KCMHZymmguLKgOWeFCdc"}'
  type: local

NOTE: Make sure that the address matches the one displayed in Keplr.

Now it is time to create the validator

Feel free to change parameters as yours will, or remove unnecessary infos (like, details, identity)

titand tx staking create-validator \
  --amount=2048tkx \
  --pubkey=$(titand tendermint show-validator) \
  --moniker="choose a moniker" \
  --website="Your website" \
  --details="Yours very detail" \
  --security-contact="[e-mail]" \
  --identity="your id on keybase"
  --chain-id=titan_18888-1 \
  --commission-rate="0.10" \
  --commission-max-rate="0.20" \
  --commission-max-change-rate="0.01" \
  --gas="auto" \
  --gas-adjustment=1.5 \
  --gas-prices="101000000000atkx" \
  --min-self-delegation="2048000000000000000000" \
  --from=my_wallet

You will be asked for the passphrase again and confirm the transaction.

gas estimate: 263922
auth_info:
  fee:
    amount:
    - amount: "263922000000000"
      denom: atkx
    gas_limit: "263922"
    granter: ""
    payer: ""
  signer_infos: []
  tip: null
body:
  extension_options: []
  memo: ""
  messages:
  - '@type': /cosmos.staking.v1beta1.MsgCreateValidator
    commission:
      max_change_rate: "0.010000000000000000"
      max_rate: "0.200000000000000000"
      rate: "0.100000000000000000"
    delegator_address: titan1graakezx2rllgd53yzn2z30cukxrga2h7397sz
    description:
      details: ""
      identity: ""
      moniker: Beast
      security_contact: ""
      website: ""
    min_self_delegation: "2048000000000000000000"
    pubkey:
      '@type': /cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey
      key: bug7PM4m8iefXf/g4JVdklDJmDvzsmchCvEgkfMlCrs=
    validator_address: titanvaloper1graakezx2rllgd53yzn2z30cukxrga2hq9qmgn
    value:
      amount: "2048000000000000000000"
      denom: atkx
  non_critical_extension_options: []
  timeout_height: "0"
signatures: []
confirm transaction before signing and broadcasting [y/N]: y
code: 0
codespace: ""
data: ""
events: []
gas_used: "0"
gas_wanted: "0"
height: "0"
info: ""
logs: []
raw_log: '[]'
timestamp: ""
tx: null
txhash: F348DF6D236C310A8D65234F73D51F3D84DE41DE511C417807A06407FB04A892

Check the status of your transaction and your new validator at Explorer.

NOTE: after success create your validator node, you may want to remove yours private key from machine for security

titand keys delete my_wallet