Creating Your Validator

Get some SIDE tokens from faucet

• https://testnet.side.one/faucet

check your balances:

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$ sided query bank balances side162ttnnflhvuazp42vxu5jf3fgxy750lrn3zrld
balances:
- amount: "999999900000000000"
  denom: uside
  pagination:
  next_key: null
  total: "0"

Create Your Validator

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sided tx staking create-validator \\
--from=alice \\
--amount=400000000uside \\
--pubkey=$(sided tendermint show-validator)  \\
--moniker="side_node" \\
--security-contact="[email protected]" \\
--chain-id="S2-testnet-2" \\
--commission-rate="0.1" \\
--commission-max-rate="0.2" \\
--commission-max-change-rate="0.05" \\
--min-self-delegation="400000000" \\
--fees="50000uside"

If you need further explanation for each of these command flags:

• the from flag is the KEY_NAME you created when initializing the key on your keyring
• the amount flag is the amount you will place in your own validator in uside
• the pubkey is the validator public key found earlier
• the moniker is a human-readable name you choose for your validator
• the security-contact is an email your delegates are able to contact you at
• the chain-id is whatever chain-id you are working with
• the commission-rate is the rate you will charge your delegates
• the commission-max-rate is the most you are allowed to charge your delegates
• the commission-max-change-rate is how much you can increase your commission rate in a 24 hour period
• the min-self-delegation is the lowest amount of personal funds the validator is required to have in their own validator to stay bonded