# Useful commands

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Service operations" %}

#### Check logs

```
sudo journalctl -u celestia-appd -fo cat
```

#### Start service

```
sudo systemctl start celestia-appd
```

#### Stop service

```
sudo systemctl stop celestia-appd
```

#### Restart service

```
sudo systemctl restart celestia-appd
```

#### Check service status

```
sudo systemctl status celestia-appd
```

#### Reload services

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```

#### Enable Service

```
sudo systemctl enable celestia-appd
```

#### Disable Service

```
sudo systemctl disable celestia-appd
```

#### Node info

```
celestia-appd status 2>&1 | jq
```

#### Your node peer

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

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Governance" %}

#### **View all proposals**

```
celestia-appd query gov proposals
```

#### **View specific proposal**

```
celestia-appd query gov proposal 1
```

#### V**ote yes**

```
celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 yes --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4  --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### V**ote no**

```
celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 no --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4  --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### V**ote abstain**

```
celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 abstain --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4  --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### V**ote no\_with\_veto**

```
celestia-appd tx gov vote 1 no_with_veto --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4  --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Key management" %}

#### Add New Wallet

```
celestia-appd keys add wallet
```

#### Restore executing wallet

```
celestia-appd keys add wallet --recover
```

#### List All Wallets

```
celestia-appd keys list
```

#### **D**elete wallet

```
celestia-appd keys delete wallet
```

#### **C**heck Balance

```
celestia-appd q bank balances $(celestia-appd keys show wallet -a)
```

#### **E**xport Key (save to wallet.backup)

```
celestia-appd keys export wallet
```

#### **V**iew EVM Prived Key

```
celestia-appd keys unsafe-export-eth-key wallet
```

#### Import Key (restore from wallet.backup)

```
celestia-appd keys import wallet wallet.backup
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Validator management" %}
{% hint style="info" %}
Before running this command, ensure that you have replaced the default values for `moniker`, `identity`, `details`, and `website` with your own validator information.
{% endhint %}

#### Create New Validator

```
celestia-appd tx staking edit-validator \
--amount 1000000utia \
--new-moniker "Your_Moniker" \
--identity "Keybase_ID" \
--details "Your_Description" \
--website "Your_Website" \
--security-contact "Your_Email" \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 0.2 \
--commission-max-change-rate 0.01 \
--min-self-delegation 1 \
--from wallet \
--chain-id mocha-4 \
--gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia \
-y 
```

#### Edit Existing Validator

```
celestia-appd tx staking edit-validator \
--new-moniker "Your_Moniker" \
--identity "Keybase_ID" \
--details "Your_Description" \
--website "Your_Website" \
--security-contact "Your_Email" \
--commission-rate 0.05 \
--from Wallet_Name \
--chain-id mocha-4 \
--gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia \
-y 
```

#### Validator info

```
celestia-appd status 2>&1 | jq
```

#### Validator Details

```
celestia-appd q staking validator $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) 
```

#### Jailing info

```
celestia-appd q slashing signing-info $(celestia-appd tendermint show-validator) 
```

#### Slashing parameters

```
celestia-appd q slashing params 
```

#### Unjail validator

```
celestia-appd tx slashing unjail --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Active Validators List

```
celestia-appd q staking validators -oj --limit=2000 | jq '.validators[] | select(.status=="BOND_STATUS_BONDED")' | jq -r '(.tokens|tonumber/pow(10; 6)|floor|tostring) + " 	 " + .description.moniker' | sort -gr | nl 
```

#### Check Validator key

```
[[ $(celestia-appd q staking validator $VALOPER_ADDRESS -oj | jq -r .consensus_pubkey.key) = $(celestia-appd status | jq -r .ValidatorInfo.PubKey.value) ]] && echo -e "Your key status is ok" || echo -e "Your key status is error"
```

#### Signing info

```
celestia-appd q slashing signing-info $(celestia-appd tendermint show-validator) 
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Token management" %}
{% hint style="info" %}
Replace the placeholders `<TO_WALLET_ADDRESS>`, `<TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS>`, and the `amount` value with your actual target wallet address, validator address, and the amount you want to transfer (denominated in `utia`).
{% endhint %}

#### Withdraw all rewards

```
celestia-appd tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from $WALLET --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Withdraw rewards and commission from your validator

```
celestia-appd tx distribution withdraw-rewards VALOPER_ADDRESS --from wallet --commission --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Check your balance

```
celestia-appd query bank balances wallet
```

#### Delegate to Yourself

```
celestia-appd tx staking delegate $(celestia-appd keys show wallet --bech val -a) <amount>utia --from $WALLET ---chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Delegate

```
celestia-appd tx staking delegate <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> <amount>utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Redelegate Stake to Another Validator

```
celestia-appd tx staking redelegate VALOPER_ADDRESS <TO_VALOPER_ADDRESS> <amount>utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Unbond

```
celestia-appd tx staking unbond $(celestia-appd keys show $WALLET --bech val -a) <amount>utia --from wallet --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

#### Transfer Funds

```
celestia-appd tx bank send $WALLET_ADDRESS <TO_WALLET_ADDRESS> <amount>utia --chain-id mocha-4 --gas auto --gas-adjustment 1.5 --gas-prices 0.005utia -y
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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```
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```

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