🧩 Useful Commands

🧰 Service Management

Reload service configuration

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable service

sudo systemctl enable lavad

Disable service

sudo systemctl disable lavad

Start service

sudo systemctl start lavad

Stop service

sudo systemctl stop lavad

Restart service

sudo systemctl restart lavad

Check service status

sudo systemctl status lavad

Check service logs

sudo journalctl -u lavad -f

🔑 Key management

Add New Wallet

lavad keys add wallet

Restore executing wallet

lavad keys add wallet --recover

List All Wallets

lavad keys list

Delete wallet

lavad keys delete wallet

Check Balance

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

Export key to a file

lavad keys export wallet

View EVM Prived Key

lavad keys unsafe-export-eth-key wallet

Import key from a file

lavad keys import wallet wallet.backup

💰 Token management

Withdraw rewards from all validators

lavad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Withdraw commission and rewards from your validator

lavad tx distribution withdraw-rewards $(lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a) --commission --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Delegate tokens to yourself

lavad tx staking delegate $(lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000ulava --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.6 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Delegate tokens to validator

lavad tx staking delegate <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000ulava --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.6 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Redelegate tokens to another validator

lavad tx staking redelegate $(lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a) <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> 1000000ulava --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Unbond tokens from your validator

lavad tx staking unbond $(lavad keys show wallet --bech val -a) 1000000ulava --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

Send tokens to the wallet

lavad tx bank send wallet <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> 1000000ulava --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

⚡ Validator operations

Create New Validator

lavad tx staking create-validator \
--amount 1000000ulava \
--pubkey $(lavad tendermint show-validator) \
--moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id lava-testnet-2 \
--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 0.000000001ulava \
-y

Edit Existing Validator

lavad tx staking edit-validator \
--new-moniker "YOUR_MONIKER_NAME" \
--identity "YOUR_KEYBASE_ID" \
--details "YOUR_DETAILS" \
--website "YOUR_WEBSITE_URL" \
--chain-id lava-testnet-2 \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--from wallet \
--gas-adjustment 1.4 \
--gas auto \
--gas-prices 0.000000001ulava \
-y

Validator info

lavad status 2>&1 | jq .ValidatorInfo

Get sync info

lavad status 2>&1 | jq .SyncInfo

Validator Details

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

Jailing info

lavad q slashing signing-info $(lavad tendermint show-validator) 

Slashing parameters

lavad q slashing params 

Unjail validator

lavad tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id lava-testnet-2 --gas-adjustment 1.4 --gas auto --gas-prices 0.000000001ulava -y

🗑️ Delete node

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