Useful commands

Useful set of commands for node operators. From key management to chain governance.

🔑 Key management

Add new key

celestia-appd keys add wallet

Recover existing key

celestia-appd keys add wallet --recover

List all keys

celestia-appd keys list

Delete key

celestia-appd keys delete wallet

Export key to the file

celestia-appd keys export wallet

Import key from the file

celestia-appd keys import wallet wallet.backup

Query wallet balance

celestia-appd q bank balances $(celestia-appd keys show wallet -a)

👷 Validator management

Please make sure you have adjusted moniker, identity, details, website, evm-address and orchestrator-address to match your values.

--evm-address: This flag should contain a 0x EVM address. Here, you can add any Ethereum-based address to this flag. You can also modify it later if you decide to switch addresses.

--orchestrator-address: This flag should contain a newly-generated celestia1 Celestia address. Validators certainly can use their existing Celestia addresses here but it is recommended to create a new one.

Create new validator

celestia-appd tx staking create-validator \
--amount=1000000utia \
--pubkey=$(celestia-appd tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker="YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity="YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details="YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website="YOUR_WEBSITE_URL"
--evm-address="YOUR_EVM_ADDRESS" \
--orchestrator-address="YOUR_ORCHESTRATOR_ADDRESS" \
--chain-id=mocha \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--commission-max-rate=0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate=0.01 \
--min-self-delegation=1 \
--from=wallet \
--gas-adjustment=1.4 \
--gas=auto \
--gas-prices=0.005utia \
-y

Edit existing validator

celestia-appd tx staking edit-validator \
--moniker="YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity="YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details="YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website="YOUR_WEBSITE_URL"
--chain-id=mocha \
--commission-rate=0.05 \
--from=wallet \
--gas-adjustment=1.4 \
--gas=auto \
--gas-prices=0.005utia \
-y

Unjail validator

celestia-appd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Jail reason

celestia-appd query slashing signing-info $(celestia-appd tendermint show-validator)

List all active validators

celestia-appd q staking validators -oj --limit=3000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " \t " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl

List all inactive validators

celestia-appd q staking validators -oj --limit=3000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_UNBONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " \t " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl

View validator details

celestia-appd q staking validator $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a)

💲 Token management

Withdraw rewards from all validators

celestia-appd tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Withdraw commission and rewards from your validator

celestia-appd tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Delegate tokens to yourself

celestia-appd tx staking delegate $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Delegate tokens to validator

celestia-appd tx staking delegate <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Redelegate tokens to another validator

celestia-appd tx staking redelegate $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Unbond tokens from your validator

celestia-appd tx staking unbond $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Send tokens to the wallet

celestia-appd tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha

🗳 Governance

List all proposals

celestia-appd query gov proposals

View proposal by id

celestia-appd query gov proposal 1

Vote 'Yes'

celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 yes --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Vote 'No'

celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 no --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Vote 'Abstain'

celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 abstain --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

Vote 'NoWithVeto'

celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 nowithveto --from wallet --chain-id mocha --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005utia -y

⚡️ Utility

Update ports

CUSTOM_PORT=10
sed -i -e "s%^proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26658\"%proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}658\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657\"%laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}657\"%; s%^pprof_laddr = \"localhost:6060\"%pprof_laddr = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}060\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:26656\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}656\"%; s%^prometheus_listen_addr = \":26660\"%prometheus_listen_addr = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}660\"%" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s%^address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:1317\"%address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}317\"%; s%^address = \":8080\"%address = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}080\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9090\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}090\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9091\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}091\"%" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml

Update Indexer

Disable indexer

sed -i -e 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "null"|' $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml

Enable indexer

sed -i -e 's|^indexer *=.*|indexer = "kv"|' $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml

Update pruning

sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "100"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "19"|' \
  $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml

🚨 Maintenance

Get validator info

celestia-appd status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Get sync info

celestia-appd status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Get node peer

echo $(celestia-appd tendermint show-node-id)'@'$(curl -s ifconfig.me)':'$(cat $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml | sed -n '/Address to listen for incoming connection/{n;p;}' | sed 's/.*://; s/".*//')

Check if validator key is correct

[[ $(celestia-appd q staking validator $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(celestia-appd status | jq -r .ValidatorInfo.PubKey.value) ]] && echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[32mTrue\e[0m\n" || echo -e "\n\e[1m\e[31mFalse\e[0m\n"

Get live peers

curl -sS http://localhost:20657/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}'

Set minimum gas price

sed -i -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0utia\"/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/app.toml

Enable prometheus

sed -i -e "s/prometheus = false/prometheus = true/" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml

Reset chain data

celestia-appd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home $HOME/.celestia-app --keep-addr-book

Remove node

Please, before proceeding with the next step! All chain data will be lost! Make sure you have backed up your priv_validator_key.json!

cd $HOME
sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
sudo systemctl disable celestia-appd
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/celestia-appd.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
rm -f $(which celestia-appd)
rm -rf $HOME/.celestia-app
rm -rf $HOME/celestia-app

⚙️ Service Management

Reload service configuration

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable service

sudo systemctl enable celestia-appd

Disable service

sudo systemctl disable celestia-appd

Start service

sudo systemctl start celestia-appd

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd

Check service status

sudo systemctl status celestia-appd

Check service logs

sudo journalctl -u celestia-appd -f --no-hostname -o cat

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