Validator

Obtain your validator public key by running the following command:

alignedlayerd comet show-validator

The output will be similar to this (with a different key):

{"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"lR1d7YBVK5jYijOfWVKRFoWCsS4dg3kagT7LB9GnG8I="}

Then, create a file named validator.json with the following content:

nano $HOME/validator.json

Change your info, from "pubkey" to "details" and Save them

{    
    "pubkey": {"@type":"/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey","key":"lR1d7YBVK5jYijOfWVKRFoWCsS4dg3kagT7LB9GnG8I="},
    "amount": "1000000stake",
    "moniker": "your-node-moniker",
    "identity": "eqlab testnet validator",
    "website": "optional website for your validator",
    "security": "optional security contact for your validator",
    "details": "optional details for your validator",
    "commission-rate": "0.1",
    "commission-max-rate": "0.2",
    "commission-max-change-rate": "0.01",
    "min-self-delegation": "1"
}

Finally, we're ready to submit the transaction to create the validator:

alignedlayerd tx staking create-validator $HOME/validator.json \
--from wallet --chain-id alignedlayer \
--fees 50stake

Delegate Token to your own validator

alignedlayerd tx staking delegate $(alignedlayerd keys show wallet --bech val -a)  1000000stake \
--from wallet --chain-id alignedlayer \
--fees 50stake

Withdraw rewards and commission from your validator

alignedlayerd tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(alignedlayerd keys show wallet --bech val -a) \
--from wallet --chain-id alignedlayer \
--fees 50stake

Unjail validator

alignedlayerd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id alignedlayer --fees=50stake -y

Backup Validator

Important

cat $HOME/.alignedlayer/config/priv_validator_key.json