📝Cheat Sheet

A Tendermint cheat sheet is a quick reference for essential commands to control Tendermint blockchains.

Managing Keys

Generate new key

bitbadgeschaind keys add wallet

Recover key

bitbadgeschaind keys add wallet --recover

List all key

bitbadgeschaind keys list

Delete key

bitbadgeschaind keys delete wallet

Export key

bitbadgeschaind keys export wallet

Import key

bitbadgeschaind keys import wallet wallet.backup

Query wallet balances

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

Managing validators

Create Validator

bitbadgeschaind tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000000ubadge \
--pubkey $(bitbadgeschaind tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "your-moniker-name" \
--identity "your-keybase-id" \
--details "your-details" \
--website "your-website" \
--security-contact "your-email" \
--chain-id bitbadges-1 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--commission-max-rate 0.20 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.05 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.5 \
--gas-prices 0.025ubadge \
--gas auto \
-y

Edit validator

bitbadgeschaind tx staking edit-validator \
--new-moniker "your-moniker-name" \
--identity "your-keybase-id" \
--details "your-details" \
--website "your-website" \
--security-contact "your-email" \
--chain-id bitbadges-1 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.5 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0.025ubadge \
-y

Unjail validator

bitbadgeschaind tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --fees 0.025ubadge -y

Validator unjail reason

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

List active validator

bitbadgeschaind 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 inactive validator

bitbadgeschaind 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

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

Get Denom Info

bitbadgeschaind q bank denom-metadata -oj | jq

Get Sync Status

bitbadgeschaind status 2>&1 | jq -r '.SyncInfo.catching_up // .sync_info.catching_up'

Get Latest Height

bitbadgeschaind status 2>&1 | jq -r '.SyncInfo.latest_block_height // .sync_info.latest_block_height'

Token Management

Withdraw rewards from all validators

bitbadgeschaind tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y 

Withdraw commission and rewards from your validator

bitbadgeschaind tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(bitbadgeschaind keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y 

Delegate tokens to your validator

bitbadgeschaind tx staking delegate $(bitbadgeschaind keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000000ubadge --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y 

Delegate token to other validator, change <to-valoper-address> as you like

bitbadgeschaind tx staking delegate <to-valoper-address> 1000000000ubadge --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y 

Redelegate to another validator

bitbadgeschaind tx staking redelegate $(bitbadgeschaind keys show wallet --bech val -a) <to-valoper-address> 1000000000ubadge --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y 

Unbond token from your own validator

bitbadgeschaind tx staking unbond $(bitbadgeschaind keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000000ubadge --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y

Send token to the wallet, change <to-wallet-address> as you like

bitbadgeschaind tx bank send wallet <to-wallet-address> 1000000000ubadge --from wallet --chain-id bitbadges-1 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.025ubadge -y