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CLI Cheatsheet

Key management

Add new key

gaiad keys add wallet

Recover existing key

gaiad keys add wallet --recover

List all keys

gaiad keys list

Delete key

gaiad keys delete wallet

Export key to the file

gaiad keys export wallet

Import key from the file

gaiad keys import wallet wallet.backup

Wallet balance

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

Token management

Withdraw rewards from all validators

gaiad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Withdraw rewards and commissions from your validator

gaiad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(gaiad keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Delegate tokens to yourself

gaiad tx staking delegate $(gaiad keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000uatom --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Delegate tokens to validator

gaiad tx staking delegate <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000uatom --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Redelegate tokens to another validator

gaiad tx staking redelegate $(gaiad keys show wallet --bech val -a) <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000uatom --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Unbond tokens from your validator

gaiad tx staking unbond $(gaiad keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000uatom --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Send tokens to the wallet

gaiad tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000uatom --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Validator management

Validator info

gaiad status 2>&1 | jq .validator_info

Validator details

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

Check if validator key is correct

[[ $(gaiad q staking validator $(gaiad keys show wallet --bech val -a) -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(gaiad 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"

List all active validators

gaiad q staking validators -oj --limit=1000 | 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

gaiad q staking validators -oj --limit=1000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_UNBONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " \t " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl

Edit existing validator

gaiad tx staking edit-validator \
  --new-moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
  --identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
  --details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
  --website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
  --security-contact "YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" \
  --chain-id cosmoshub-4 \
  --commission-rate 0.05 \
  --from wallet \
  --gas-adjustment 1.4 \
  --gas auto \
  --gas-prices 0.005uatom \
  -y

Jail reason

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

Unjail validator

gaiad tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Governance

Create a new offer

gaiad tx gov submit-proposal \
  --title "" \
  --description "" \
  --deposit 10000000uatom \
  --type Text
  --from wallet \
  --gas-adjustment 1.4 \
  --gas auto \
  --gas-prices 0.005uatom \
  -y

List all proposals

gaiad query gov proposals

View proposal by ID

gaiad query gov proposal 1

Vote “YES”

gaiad tx gov vote 1 yes --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Vote “NO”

gaiad tx gov vote 1 no --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Vote “ABSTAIN”

gaiad tx gov vote 1 abstain --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Vote “NOWITHVETO”

gaiad tx gov vote 1 NoWithVeto --from wallet --chain-id cosmoshub-4 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.005uatom -y

Maintenance

Get sync info

gaiad status 2>&1 | jq .sync_info

Get node peer

echo $(gaiad tendermint show-node-id)'@'$(wget -qO- eth0.me)':'$(cat $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml | sed -n '/Address to listen for incoming connection/{n;p;}' | sed 's/.*://; s/".*//')

Get live peers

curl -sS http://localhost:15757/net_info | jq -r '.result.peers[] | "\(.node_info.id)@\(.remote_ip):\(.node_info.listen_addr)"' | awk -F ':' '{print $1":"$(NF)}'

Enable Prometheus

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

Set minimum gas price

sed -i -e "s|^minimum-gas-prices *=.*|minimum-gas-prices = \"0.005uatom\"|" $HOME/.gaia/config/app.toml

Disable indexer

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

Enable indexer

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

Update pruning

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

Filter peers and max peers

sed -i -e 's|^filter_peers *=.*|filter_peers = "true"|' $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml
sed -i -e 's|^max_num_inbound_peers *=.*|max_num_inbound_peers = "50"|' $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml
sed -i -e 's|^max_num_outbound_peers *=.*|max_num_outbound_peers = "20"|' $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml

Update ports

CUSTOM_PORT=157
sed -i -e "s%^proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26658\"%proxy_app = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}58\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:26657\"%laddr = \"tcp://127.0.0.1:${CUSTOM_PORT}57\"%; s%^pprof_laddr = \"localhost:6060\"%pprof_laddr = \"localhost:${CUSTOM_PORT}60\"%; s%^laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:26656\"%laddr = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}56\"%; s%^prometheus_listen_addr = \":26660\"%prometheus_listen_addr = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}66\"%" $HOME/.gaia/config/config.toml
sed -i -e "s%^address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:1317\"%address = \"tcp://0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}17\"%; s%^address = \":8080\"%address = \":${CUSTOM_PORT}80\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9090\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}90\"%; s%^address = \"0.0.0.0:9091\"%address = \"0.0.0.0:${CUSTOM_PORT}91\"%" $HOME/.gaia/config/app.toml

Reset chain data

gaiad tendermint unsafe-reset-all --keep-addr-book --home $HOME/.gaia

Delete node

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

Service Management

Status service

sudo systemctl status gaiad

Start service

sudo systemctl start gaiad

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop gaiad

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart gaiad

Logs service

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

Reload service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable service

sudo systemctl enable gaiad

Disable service

sudo systemctl disable gaiad