Node Commands

Usefull commands for Prysm Network

🔑 Key management

👛

Change wallet in the commands to your own wallet name.

Add new key

prysmd keys add wallet

Recover existing key

prysmd keys add wallet --recover

List all keys

prysmd keys list

Delete key

prysmd keys delete wallet

Export key to the file

prysmd keys export wallet

Import key from the file

prysmd keys import wallet wallet.backup

Query wallet balance

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

🧙 Validator management

🙋‍♀️

Make sure to change values for moniker, identity, details website to your own values.

Edit existing validator

prysmd tx staking edit-validator \
--new-moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id prysm-devnet-1 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.5 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0uprysm \
-y

Unjail validator

prysmd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto
 --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Jail reason

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

List all active validators

prysmd 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

prysmd 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

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

🪙 Token management

Withdraw rewards from all validators

prysmd tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Withdraw commission and rewards from your validator

prysmd tx distribution withdraw-rewards $( prysmd keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Delegate tokens to yourself

prysmd tx staking delegate $( prysmd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000uprysm --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Delegate tokens to validator

prysmd tx staking delegate <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000uprysm --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm  -y

Redelegate tokens to another validator

prysmd tx staking redelegate $( prysmd keys show wallet --bech val -a) <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000uprysm --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Unbond tokens from your validator

prysmd tx staking unbond $( prysmd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000uprysm --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Send tokens to the wallet

prysmd tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uprysm --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

🏛️ Governance

List all proposals

prysmd query gov proposals

View proposal by id

prysmd query gov proposal 1

Vote 'Yes'

prysmd tx gov vote 1 yes --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Vote 'No'

prysmd tx gov vote 1 no --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Vote 'Abstain'

prysmd tx gov vote 1 abstain --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

Vote 'NoWithVeto'

prysmd tx gov vote 1 NoWithVeto --from wallet --chain-id prysm-devnet-1 --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas auto --gas-prices 0uprysm -y

⚡️ Utility

Update Indexer

Disable indexer

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

Enable indexer

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

Update pruning

sed -i \
  -e 's|^pruning *=.*|pruning = "custom"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-recent *=.*|pruning-keep-recent = "2000"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-keep-every *=.*|pruning-keep-every = "0"|' \
  -e 's|^pruning-interval *=.*|pruning-interval = "100"|' \
  $HOME/.prysm/config/app.toml

🔧 Maintenance

Get validator info

prysmd status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Get sync info

prysmd status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Enable prometheus

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

Reset chain data

prysmd tendermint unsafe-reset-all --keep-addr-book --home $HOME/.prysm --keep-addr-book

Remove node

☢️

Make sure you have backed up your priv_validator_key.json!

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

⚙️ Service Management

Reload service configuration

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable service

sudo systemctl enable prysmd

Disable service

sudo systemctl disable prysmd

Start service

sudo systemctl start prysmd

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop prysmd

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart prysmd

Check service status

sudo systemctl status prysmd

Check service logs

sudo journalctl -u prysmd -f --no-hostname -o cat